Fontes Situation Evidence Archive

Ernie ran a fake presale called "StableMine" through the $FRENZ project and stole ~$30,000 from investors.

• @SPLITweb3 claims $30K+ stolen, says he has wallet tracking proof
• 18-page report (partially visible, blurred) titled "Ernest Fontes - Cryptocurrency Scam"
• @SPLITweb3 personally claims $21,000 stolen from "me and my FRENZ"

Verifiable via blockchain forensics. FRENZ had no public web presence, but presale wallet addresses would show where funds went. The $30K figure comes from a single source (@SPLITweb3).

As CMO of Zombie Inu, Ernie misappropriated investor ETH, which was sent to a personal Coinbase wallet.

• Wallet address shared in Telegram: 0xBA5D25086C7F7d7E65ad390d7c71c4c1792ec
• @TrueWhaleFiles documented Feb 15, 2023 developer pump-and-dump (14.5 ETH)
• SourceHat audit confirmed ManualSwap/ManualSend extraction functions

Acknowledges obligations but frames it as a timing/liquidity issue.

Verifiable on-chain. Wallet address is specific. The Feb 2023 dump was documented with transaction data. Key question: did Ernie as "CMO" actually control project wallets?

Ernie borrowed 3.2222 ETH (~$5-6K) from Brian for rent around August 2023 and failed to repay. Only 0.4 ETH returned after 8 months.

• Full iMessage thread from Ernie's phone acknowledging the debt
• Nov 2023: Ernie says he has no working credit cards
• Apr 2024: 8 months later, only 0.4 of 3.2222 ETH repaid
• Ernie sent a mocking sticker about Brian "getting cooked at $1b"
• Brian also confronted Ernie about team members selling tokens while claiming they hadn't

Strongest accusation. Ernie's own text messages acknowledge the debt. The mocking sticker undermines any good-faith defense. This is a straightforward unpaid personal loan — separate from the investment fraud question, but shows a pattern of taking money and not returning it.

Splendor's ValidatorController.sol contains functions that let the owner drain all staked user funds without oversight.

• Code posted: rescueCoins() — owner withdraws all ETH balance
• Code posted: emergencyTransfer() — owner transfers arbitrary amounts to any address
• "No timelock, no multisig, no governance required"
• CertiK rating for Splendor: 3.6/10
• SafeMoon CEO convicted (100 months) for identical pattern (May 2025)

Ernie distancing himself from Splendor is notable — either honest or an attempt to avoid liability.

Verifiable on-chain. A smart contract auditor could confirm the functions exist and whether they've been called. The SafeMoon precedent makes this legally significant — needs an independent auditor review.

$MINE ran a fraudulent presale at $5,000 per slot in September 2024, promoted by Austin Hilton in a video recorded at the Austin Hilton hotel.

• Telegram presale group screenshots (Sep 24-25, 2024)
• Promo video by Austin Hilton (235K YouTube subs) who allegedly lied about investing $5K
• Project not listed on any exchange or tracker — zero public footprint
• Confirmed never launched: @basedlegendman (Jan 30 tweet): "scammed me and my friends of $21k from a fake presale token called mine which never launched" (tweet)
• @_FutureLegend confirms personal loss of $5K+: "Ernest owes me over $5k and my friends all together over $21k" (tweet)
• @_FutureLegend also claims "free work and lost all my life savings" (Dec 17)

In the phone call, references a "mine dev" / "Indian dev" he claims is responsible. @SPLITweb3 says this is fabricated and has proof.

Stronger than initially assessed. $MINE confirmed to have never launched — presale funds were collected and the token was never created. Combined with @_FutureLegend's specific dollar amount ($5K+) and the phone call reference to a possibly fictitious developer, this is now medium evidence.

Ernest is "likely committing Tax Evasion."

None shown. @SPLITweb3 references "private messages that suggest" it. Pure speculation with no supporting documentation.

No response — allegation too vague to address.

Unsubstantiated. This is speculation layered on top of the fraud allegations, not an independent claim backed by evidence.

Ernest Fontes, 35, pled guilty to CSAM possession in federal court (Western District of Texas) on January 6, 2021. Former Solar Energy Sales Manager. 16,000+ files found on laptop, 349,726 files on external drive.

This document is a forgery. An exhaustive PACER search of the Western District of Texas for defendant "Ernest Fontes" across 2020–2021 returned zero results. No case, no filing, no record of any kind exists. Combined with the prior evidence against authenticity, this conclusively establishes the document as fabricated.

• PACER search completed — no matching case exists. The Western District of Texas has no record of any case involving Ernest Fontes in 2020–2021.
• "Paladin Alpha Pamp" called it fabricated within the community: "You tank your own credibility posting clown shit like that"
• Multiple web searches found no matching DOJ record, news article, or court filing
• Federal cases are public record and cannot be "covered up" — the claim that "Ducky paid a lot of money to have this covered up" is itself implausible

Fabricating a DOJ press release to falsely accuse someone of child pornography offenses is extreme defamation and potentially a federal crime (impersonating a federal agency). This significantly strengthens any legal action against the harassers.