Inglourious bastards (The Tale of a Crook)

Part One

But where would we be without him! At the numerous requests of my subscribers, I am starting a review of the biography of the owner of the monitor, blog and scammer aggregator known to everyone under the name Sebastian, a roguish and slippery type, a real neat guy, the current owner of H-Metrics and the former owner of the blog newhyip.com and the H-script site, as well as other resources, which we will discuss below.

Many people ask me, why this former resident of the glorious city of Kyiv has such a strange name? The fact is that his parents named him in honor of a relative who lived in Los Angeles and whose roots are connected with Jewish settlers. Like, say, our other former compatriot, owner of the Money-News-Online blog, Pavel Abramzon, who left for Israel from one of the countries of the former CIS.

Our friend was lucky that his parents were intelligent citizens of their country and tried to instill in him the best qualities inherent in educated people. For this, Sebastian was sent to one of the best lyceums in Kyiv with an emphasis on English.

We must pay tribute to our hero, he studied well and even now, perhaps, his photograph hangs in the lobby of this institution as one of the best students. But, as often happens, Seb was not interested in what his parents dreamed of. Not feeling the need for money, he sat all night long in one of the computer clubs, hanging out in Lineage and other online games, pumping up and selling accounts.

Part Two

But our friend’s nightly vigils in these semi-basement premises did not last long. Although not possessing the talent of a programmer, Sebastian, nevertheless, possessed a pronounced trait inherent in his ancient nation - the talent of making money. At the same time, the thirst for profit in him overpowered the purist that he had been since childhood.

For example, he was always annoyed that in correspondence in Russian, you might not put a colon over the letter e, or wrote I in English with a small letter (I and i), but he was completely indifferent if you caught him in a lie, which he radiated with or without reason. It was in these computer catacombs that Seb met his two colleagues, talented programmers, whom he ultimately cheated in future showdowns with their brainchild - the H-script script...

But, first, a warm group, led by Seb, abandoned the Lineage, where it took too long to level up characters for sale and, in order to make quick money, decided to make hyips, then they already became fashionable and the industry developed rapidly. And for the first hyip, they had to write their own script, because our friend, a descendant of Ashkenazis, did not want to spend money on Gold Coders, which was the most popular of the scripts, and here the main trait of our hero manifested itself - fabulous greed.

As the basis for the script for hyip, our friends decided to take the framework of Shadow, a very popular script of the first half of the tenth years. Having worked a little magic, the programmers put together a very good and working script, suitable for ponzi. They tested the self-written script and made sure that it had security flaws, but so far they haven’t changed anything, hoping for chance or something else. The design of the site was simple, one-page, as is fashionable now and they didn’t bother too much with marketing, 1% per day for 30 days with a refund of the deposit. Sebastian reasoned like this - we’ll work for a month, but we won’t return the deposit, it will be our swag...

Part Three

But not everything went smoothly. Or rather, everything did not go as expected. First, our glorious Ashkenazi, the son of wonderful parents, had a fight with the owner of the MMGP forum, Pavel Krymov. It is not known what Pavel did not like about the descendant of the ancient nation, most likely his innate cleanliness, but he banned him from the forum and after that Sebastian harbored a grudge and constantly took revenge as best he could.

The hyip worked for a week, collected some money, but due to the imperfection of the script, this money leaked to the first hacker who came across, who calmly found a hole in the API and fished out a couple of thousends in the then Liberty Reserve currency. To say that this shocked our friend is to say nothing. He was red as a lobster all week, cursing everyone around him and the hyip industry in the first place. How come he, so smart and handsome, was robbed by some stray hacker!

But there would be no happiness, but misfortune would help, there is a saying. In this first failure, Sebastian decided once and for all that it was better not to make hyips, but to use them! True, he constantly moved away from this postulate and created new hyips, mainly to test his script, which he would later call H-Script. There were no more such misfires, and our friend, with the help of his programmers, patched up the script for HYIPs and put it up for sale. The price of the script was low at first, about $100, but by the end of its tenure, its price had increased to $149.

Part Four

Little by little, quietly, the script has been sold, since it was much cheaper than all the others, but worked more or less stably. The main disadvantages of this script were security holes and the lack of user settings in the account. Programmers constantly patched their product, but hackers did not sleep and learned to quickly hack it.

Particularly unpleasant was the controversy with the hosting GeniusGuard, where H-Script hyips were constantly being exposed. Sebastian blamed everything on the hosting itself, which allegedly steals money through the API gateway, and the hosting complained that with such a crude script, any home-grown hacker could easily hack any ponzi. Slowly this quarrel subsided, but from that day on, the attitude towards our friend’s script changed. They bought it less and less, given its bad reputation, and it brought less and less profit.

A notable feature of our friend's interests was his passion for Russian and American literature. Not only did he have all the popular volumes of Leo Tolstoy, Gogol and Bulgakov, as well as Jack London and Edgar Poe on the shelf in his apartment, Sebastian himself wrote articles on investing online, using his blog Newhyip.com.

Part Five

The articles were filled with all sorts of pretentious turns and digressions, like Leo Tolstoy’s, which usually bored the reader, but our failed writer was so carried away that he did not notice the ridicule of those around him. By the way, in his recent scam, promoted on Metrica - stonkstrading.cc, Sebastian again showed himself as a blogger, posting his articles about hyips on the pages of hyip (just think!!!) It was enchanting, it’s a pity that few people noticed it. Ironically, while possessing brilliant skills to fool and deceive people, our Ashkenazi does not have the slightest spark needed for creativity. That is why his blog was subsequently closed, as people stopped visiting it.

Regarding the blog, we can say that the descendant of the immigrants was engaged not only in articles and monitoring HYIPs, but also in currency exchange, which essentially brought him to the dock, since his fraud reached such proportions that local authorities had to open a case of fraud against our hero. But the wrong one was attacked, our guy managed to cope with it - he quickly collected his baggage and fled to Los Angeles, to his relatives, fortunately he spoke English well and had a tidy sum on his bank cards from selling the script, exchanging currencies and producing HYIPs.

But, at this moment we are approaching the climax of the story about our hero, a famous scammer, the admin of more than a hundred HYIPs and an unprincipled swindler, wanted by the authorities of the beautiful city of Kyiv.

Part Six

Even before fleeing to the States, being hypersensitive to the successes of competitors, Seb became interested in the work of a talented Russian programmer who literally revolutionized the HYIP industry. We are talking about the first HYIP aggregator - ISP, which appeared in the middle of the last decade. The appearance of this resource completely turned the life of a loser and a mediocre swindler who vegetates by making funny crafts for hyips upside down. He got the wings of hope and, like the Great Schemer once upon a time, he planned a triumphant return to the hyip industry, where everyone made fun of him!

By the way, your humble servant was one of the first to lend a helping hand to the ISP project, helping to advertise it on forums, on my blog, in social networks and chats. At first, things were going neither shaky nor slow, but then, seeing huge opportunities in this resource, the administrators of HYIPs, monitors, forums and blogs flocked to the ISP in a friendly crowd. Success did not come immediately, but it was stunning!

Everyone who was interested in hyip at that time looked at the development of this endeavor with curiosity and envy. I remember that at least one other resource tried to repeat the success of ISP and even asked me to involve my capabilities in its promotion.

There is such a site - AllStats.io, which was owned by three Balkan programmers who developed their own aggregator project, different from the Russian one. I was the author of the Russian version, translated from English, but I only helped with the translation, nothing more, and completely free of charge. I have no information about what happened to this site later. In principle, it works, but it has not received any development, it hangs around somewhere in the tail and that’s all. I think those programmers resold this unprofitable resource to someone else. They simply got rid of it, I think.

Part Seven

What about our forgotten hero Sebastian? We must give him credit, he immediately sensed the power of the aggregator and its capabilities, like a predator senses prey. Forgetting about everything in the world, corroded by inhuman envy of the talented project, our friend began looking for help in creating his own resource, similar to ISP.

Since he was completely ignorant in programming, as well as in everything else that did not concern profit, Sebastian threw out a cry on the Internet, inviting freelancers to participate in a competition for the positions of programmers, designers and other site builders. Anyone who wants to know more about our hero's campaign can Google his blog name and freelancer sites to see the information. At the same time, you can look for traces of his fraud in the field of currency exchange. Google remembers everything, keep that in mind, Seb!

But let's continue. By 2018, Sebastian had at his disposal, in addition to the blog, four more sites, which, despite his superhuman efforts, were gradually fading away. Neither fat refbacks to HYIP players, nor constant lies in HYIP reviews in order to lure a naive investor into a deliberate scam, nor the creation of new HYIPs on one’s own script, which was already recognized as a scam at that time.

Our friend even had attempts to create something new in an effort to slow down the decadence of his resources. For example, in 2016, he came up with a certain platform that was supposed to study the technical characteristics of HYIP and, in one click, as stated on the website, called Hyip.life, provide information to everyone. Essentially, this was the prototype of his dream - a HYIP aggregator. But, as always in his case, Sebastian overestimated his capabilities and after a couple of years this platform withered along with all his sites - newhyip.com, artweb.cc, H-scripts.ru, H-keeper.ru.

Part Eight

Basically, it was a complete failure of our hero in the hype industry. All these resources were a deplorable sight, because they did not have the main thing - interest for others. There was something going on there, fussing about, stretching over the globe, but there was no spark that is needed in such sites, because their consumers were a rather narrow group of people involved in online investing, and essentially in the gambling business.

Our hero was in a depressed mood, since all his old projects were glued together, and the new ones that he was planning to make had not yet appeared. Either this was facilitated by his being brought to criminal responsibility for fraud in the district court of the city of Kiev, or he simply took off his rose-colored glasses and looked at himself in the mirror, but for the next two years, until 2020, Sebastian fell through time and surfaced only in Los Angeles with its new project HyipLogs, which was like a twin similar to the well-known ISP aggregator.

They say that the Moscow blogger Bona took the most active part in bringing the Ashkenazi descendant to life, but these are just rumors, there is no evidence of this. In my opinion, a respectable blogger would not get involved with a criminal who is wanted by the police. But we don’t know about this and we will analyze it in the next series, dedicated to the newly created owner of the HYIP aggregator, who makes them himself and promotes them himself. Very original!

Part Nine

So let's continue. We settled on the fact that our friend, a descendant of the Ashkenazi family, disappeared for 2 years from the HYIP industry, which, by the way, breathed a sigh of relief, everyone was too tired of his HYIPs on a script that was never brought to fruition.

During this time, he settled in the States and spent almost all his money on various lawyers who got him out of Ukrainian justice. In California, Seb completely changed his image by growing a beard. Still, he remained afraid that the bandits, along with justice, would find him there too. But he didn’t let go of the sidelocks; he didn’t like this traditional custom in Judaism. And he was not a real religious Jew, this was affected by his habitat, which consisted entirely of friends of Slavic origin.

As we know, he was unable to find a job, and a thief will not integrate into civilian life, this is not their concept. And a thief because he was charged with this very article when he robbed his client of a tidy sum in cryptocurrency. But we won’t stir up the past any more, everything has already been bought there, but let’s move forward. And ahead of our hero is a glorious struggle for a place in the sun, which he started with the real and only HYIP aggregator at that time - ISP.

Part Ten

As you already know, the forerunner of the current Metrica was the HyipLogs website, which mirrors the popular ISP aggregator. After a long absence, Sebastian finally managed to repeat the performance of the hated aggregator, which he had envied for so many years. The project turned out to be crude and nondescript, but how else could it be if such a guy is doing it?

After limping along for a couple of years, constantly changing and transforming, the website of the newly created aggregator began to gradually take its place in the industry. So far, the second thing, but quietly, just a little, our friend, without possessing the makings of a genius, had enviable perseverance and persistence. He attracted old connections to promote the resource, and they did not disdain meeting a potential criminal and gave a strong impetus to the development of Sebastian’s brainchild.

Of these “friends,” we can highlight Bona with his Hunter, a site that, by the way, is blocked by Roskomnadzor in Russia. Is this really a consequence of his connection with a criminal? Who knows. I think, on the advice of this comrade, in 2022 our hero renamed his site Hyiplogs to H-Metrics, in accordance with his former sites that died in obscurity 4 years ago - H-scripts and H-keeper. This was the incredible carelessness of an experienced swindler, because before no one had any idea who was behind the number one aggregator in the industry at present. And now the whole world has learned that the popular project is led by a well-known swindler and, in fact, a criminal. What a disappointment!

Part Eleven

But now, four years later, after all his miracle sites listed earlier went to the trash heap, our friend rose from the ashes like a phoenix. Having stolen the idea and algorithm of action from the best HYIP aggregator at that time, the fire victim made every effort to restore connections with monitors and blogs, luring them with a variety of bounties and discounts, which, by the way, are still in effect.

I won’t name everyone by name, but many monitors and especially so-called blogs, which in fact are not blogs, bought into Sebastian’s promises and began promoting him on their resources. The name Metrica began to appear on forums in the signatures of monitors who swore allegiance to it, which reminded me of the promotion of ISP just ten years ago). We must give him his due, our old, heartfelt friend from the Ashkenazi family managed to achieve something he never even dreamed of - his resource overtook ISP in popularity and took the lead.

But the most interesting was yet to come. H-script, which was rejected several years ago and died, as it seemed then, forever, entered the arena again. But Seb resumed selling this decaying corpse and entrusted the business to one blogger, who often hangs in banners on his website. The script was sold without a license and without updates, at a discount; the main consumers of this secondary product were quick scammers, collecting several hundred bucks from unwary HYIP players.

Part Twelve

But some HYIPs worked well even with this script, guess why? For example, now in my listing there is one remarkable project, Rotor, which our friend has in the best places. But there is one thing: in the technical description of the hype on Metrica, the word unlicensed for the script is missing, with the intent to deceive people. So now think about why a fugitive criminal needs this. At home, I immediately gave this hype a bad mark for preparation and thought he would soon shut down. But Sebastian changed his plans to shorter ones and still keeps this ponzi afloat.

Let's count this risky game with hype and with his friends from Inglorious Basterds, who found an excellent partner in our friend! Believing in his impunity, the new Combinator even began publishing his opuses based on HYIPs on the HYIPs themselves. Just think about it, the aggregator writes reviews based on HYIPs and places them on the website of one of them, which will be blown away in a few days!

But our hero’s ideas were not always successful. For example, his group on the Telegram channel quickly withered away, having published only information about two HYIPs in early December last year. Find this group by the name of the aggregator and see what our friend was up to and what didn’t work out. Very interesting.

Part Thirteen

So, Seb burned out on his love for literature, which, however, does not feel mutual love for him. The name of the HYIP on which the Ashkenazi descendant posted his HYIP reviews is stonkstrading.cc. I posted this information on the News page on February 19 of this year.

I was very surprised that his passion for scribbling paper awoke in him again. After all, he knows very well that I returned to the industry after several years of absence and I know very well all his habits and fraudulent projects in past years. Even then, I knew all his plans to create a HYIP aggregator, an H-script script and escape to America.

In all cases, he did not deviate from his plans, we must give him his due. First, he fled to the States, leaving the prosecutor's office of the glorious city of Kyiv high and dry, and then he stole the idea and algorithm for building an aggregator from a Russian programmer, who, it seems, did not even suspect that this was possible! Everything was simple with the script - they stopped patching it and updating it, although they were selling it left and right, in fact, exposing both HYIP administrators and investors.

I don’t know what the fate of the HYIP industry will be next, but I will try to rid it of such scammers by spreading the truth about them. It’s very funny to read the banners of a blogger from Hunter on Metrica - “Let’s return HYIPs to their former greatness!” Bona, you are posting them on the resource of a criminal and a fraudster. You are well aware of Sebastian's sins against people. Give up this activity, don’t help swindlers in their dirty deeds!

Part Fourteen

Now the unsinkable scoundrel is preparing his next hype, using the same script as before, be careful and don’t get caught by the swindler for lunch. A gang of several admins, Seb’s accomplices, has started moving again, launching several hypes lately. All of them are marked with the brand - “Inglourious Basterds”, just like Tarantino. Only those bastards were good, and these ones were just scammers, fooling people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I will continue to warn people about these and other scams in my reviews, rest assured. Any crafts and tricks of these passengers immediately become known to me, first of all, thanks to their impenetrable stupidity and illiteracy! They, I have no doubt, were complete failures at school, with the exception of Sebastian, who was lucky with his parents. This character trait - hopeless ignorance, betrays their hype in its entirety.

Part fifteen

So, we got acquainted with a brief biography of a fugitive swindler, a real swindler who has been deceiving people for over a decade and a half, a descendant of the Ashkenazi family, with the mysterious name Sebastian. How did he manage to do this, since without the makings of a blogger, he kept his resource newhyip.com afloat for five whole years, competing with other blogs?

At the same time, the hero of our story, feeling his low popularity among hypers, compensated for this by selling the H-script script, trading currency in a semi-legal position through his blog and simply through the social network Skype, and also worked part-time with a design studio that riveted HYIP designs for him script, they called it turnkey HYIPs and even created their own keeper - H-keeper.

In my opinion, one talent cannot be denied to this heir of a Turkish combinator - the ability to make money at the expense of others. This is best felt in the hype. And if Pavel Abramzon from Money-news-online, a once famous blogger, achieved everything thanks to his talent, then his counterpart used the talent of others for this. By the way, both of these comrades can’t stand each other. I don’t know what happened between them, but a black cat ran between them, darker than the night.

Part sixteen

And if Seb suffers from natural purity, then Pavel always showed an absurd arrogance. I don’t dare say what this is connected with, because he was once popular in the hype industry, like a god, but now you can’t even hear him. Let me give you an example. In our correspondence, we used Russian for communication, because Abramzon comes from the USSR. But one day, without warning, just like that, without any reason, he began to answer me only in English and at the same time wrote that he did not understand Russian.

Seb's purity leads in a completely different direction. This shows him as a person who can say with a blue eye that he loves beautiful flowers, while stealing the latter from a poor grandmother who sells these flowers on the street. Or he may complain that the HYIP industry today has reached a dead end, placing banners of one Moscow blogger, while he himself constantly throws in his crafts on the H-script script that has fallen into oblivion. This is our hero, the Hero of Our Time - Sebastian Metric...

To be continued...