Everyone involved — Ernie, the ZINU team, the accusers, and the connected names.
Ernest "Ducky" Fontes
@Zinu_CMO • also @cryptopartyguy (Telegram) • erniefontes1
CMO of ZINU. Involved with FRENZ, MINE, MainNetZ, Splendor. Phone: +15128268366 (doxxed). Former: San Diego. Current: Austin, TX. Public records: ~age 37, 514 Fife Dr, Spicewood TX 78669.
Lynsey Thiel Fontes
@lynsey.thiel (Instagram)
Ernie's wife. Works for Deepak Chopra. Baby: Luca Perry Fontes. Changed Instagram name from "Fontes" to "Thiel."
Dale Houk
"Dale" / zinudev
Lead developer. Lives in Pennsylvania. Did MEXC AMA Dec 2021. Real name doxxed by @kl910u Sep 2023.
Brian Rudy
"Undead" / possibly @OnChainBrian
Community team member. May be the same Brian who loaned Ernie 3.2222 ETH — not confirmed.
Corey Conrad
"Scary" / @scaryfromzinu
Chief Brand Officer. Married Angel Carter — making him Nick Carter's (Backstreet Boys) brother-in-law.
Todor Ivanov
Simultaneously CEO of White Rock Group (Panama investment fund) AND Founder/CEO of Splendor Labs. White Rock is the sole named investor in Splendor's $50M seed round ($4.5M committed). This is circular self-investment.
Claims 20+ years in capital markets, background at Saxo Bank (FX/commodities). Claims to have founded Global Diamond Exchange Network — not independently verified.
No FINRA BrokerCheck results. No SEC investment adviser registration.
Listed as co-founder of Coineru (crypto project) at an ICO summit. On Majestic P.L.T. alongside Ralph Ledee. Threatened in Telegram alongside Ledee and Ernie.
NOTE: This is a different person from the Todor Ivanov who is CEO of DEVA Broadcast in Bulgaria.
Ralph E. Ledee
Instagram: @ralphledee
Caribbean business magnate. Principal of ILTT, St. Maarten's largest spirits distributor (~$60M). Founder of Rum Jumbie. Listed on
Majestic P.L.T. (Ft. Lauderdale) alongside Todor Ivanov. Threatened in Telegram: "Tador, Ralph ledee and you!"
His
Phoenician Private Fund Foundation is under judicial scrutiny in St. Maarten — obtained a building permit for a 58-unit beachfront condo that violated zoning (24m in a 12m zone). A judge found ‘severe irregularities’ including a permit modification signed one day before elections.
Key Discovery: Majestic P.L.T. (1314 E. Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale) — Ralph Ledee and Todor Ivanov are both listed as team members. Ivanov described as "Founder/CEO of Splendor Labs" who "manages WhiteRock's venture capital strategy." WhiteRock = White Rock Group LLC, the entity that committed $4.5M to Splendor's seed round. Splendor Labs also posts from the @mainnetz Twitter account — confirming MainNetZ and Splendor are the same operation.
Red flags: Majestic P.L.T. is not registered as a legal entity anywhere — not in Florida, not federally. Its listed address (1314 East Las Olas Blvd) is a PostScan Mail virtual mailbox ($10/month), not a real office. Its claimed parent company ‘B&L International’ also has no corporate footprint. Despite this, the website lists real, verifiable executives — George Hazy (former American Airlines VP) and Bill Foley (former Cheney Brothers COO) — alongside unverifiable ones, lending an appearance of legitimacy.
Source: majestic-plt.com/about
@SPLITweb3 — Primary Harasser
Claims $21,000 stolen (personal loss ~$4,000 "from the peak"). Running the full doxxing, deepfake, and threat campaign. Claims to have assembled an 18-page report, 3+ hours of voice recordings, and 1,000+ screenshots.
What we know about this person:
- British male — confirmed by accent in recorded phone call, British slang ("paying" not "paid"), retweets UK Home Office and UK MP Rupert Lowe, uses Zoopla (a UK property site) to look up addresses
- Twitter User ID: 1813117254063562752 (account created July 16, 2024)
- Gamer — posts about Halo 3, Marathon, Destiny. Retweets Bungie content creators (@FaidesTwitch, @ImOwFromYT, @KahliefAdams). "SPLIT" may be his gamertag — matches a ResetEra Xbox user who "mostly plays Destiny 2 and other FPS games"
- Crypto trader — actively promoted $FRENZ token (Dec 2024–Feb 2025), also traded $SAN, $GIB, $CLAWG, Solana meme coins
- @Beebunnydoll — tagged in a personal joke tweet, likely a partner or close friend. Strongest lead to real identity. Account not publicly indexed.
- Real name: Unknown. An attorney can subpoena X Corp for account registration data (IP address, email, phone) using the User ID above.
@basedlegendman — Secondary Harasser
Posts family photos with children, fabricated sexual deepfake videos, and the 19-minute phone call recording. Closely coordinates with @SPLITweb3 — may be the same person or a close associate.
What we know about this person:
- Twitter User ID: 1824704068075307008 (created August 17, 2024 — one month after @SPLITweb3)
- Bio: "Fontes scamming shit"
- Uses Islamic references — "Inshallah," "Bismillah I raham I Rahim," "Ayatollah" — may indicate actual background or deliberate trolling
- Tags @basedStevan — "Stevan" could be a real first name
- Tags @KidSteggles — confirming "Steggles" from the phone call has the handle @KidSteggles
- Dec 16 post claims group was owed $40K total, with $20K still outstanding to 4 people
- Real name: Unknown. Subpoena to X Corp using User ID above.
Brian / @OnChainBrian
Owed 3.2222 ETH (~$5-6K). Personal loan for rent, Aug 2023. Only 0.4 ETH repaid. Provided iMessage evidence. Not running harassment accounts. Also revealed (Jan 27) that Ernie "holds ZINU hostage... he kept the domain" — controls wearezinu.com.
KENJiLLA
Claims ~$100,000 in losses. Says FBI is involved. Knows the team "for years." Wants repayment, not destruction.
Danny
Telegram: "We are frenZ 4 liFe"
Threatens @cryptopartyguy (Ernie): "will be finding out what job you get next." Threatens Ernie's future employers. FRENZ investor working alongside @SPLITweb3.
"Steggles" / @KidSteggles
Twitter: @KidSteggles
Named in the phone call as another investor who "doesn't know" the full extent. Split says they're "keeping it quiet for your sake." @basedlegendman tags this handle directly in a Dec 18 post alongside @_FutureLegend and @SPLITweb3, confirming he's part of the group.
Steve
Telegram: Crypto Party
Active investor in the community. Named in the phone call as one of the group wanting payment. Shared Lynsey's Instagram in the group chat.
@AFirstNameFrenZ ("First Name")
Third Twitter amplifier. 3,168 posts, joined March 2024. Bio: "#BASECHAIN evolution." Reposts @SPLITweb3 content.
@kl910u ("Time is now")
First person to publicly doxx ZINU team (Sep 4, 2023). Likely an early investor. Predates @SPLITweb3 campaign by 2+ years.
@_FutureLegend ("Future")
"Future" from the phone call. Personal loss: $5K+ (stated Jan 30: "Ernest owes me over $5k"). Claims to have done free work for the project and "lost all my life savings" (Dec 17). Part of the $21K group. Tagged @zachxbt. Re: KENJiLLA: "they use him like a sex toy" (Dec 23).
@TheFarrow
Reply on phone call post: "This guy is ridiculous. Has no sense of guilt. True scammer." Additional victim or close sympathizer.
@splendorrelease
Reply on dark web threat post: "Huge fucking scammer." Handle suggests direct connection to Splendor project.
@BetoGurmilan
Multiple sympathetic replies: "Sorry you guys are STILL dealing with his BS." Possibly also affected.
"Steggles"
Name from phone call only
Named in the phone call as another investor. Split says "Steggles doesn't know" about the full extent but "is on the same page." No Twitter handle identified.
Unnamed additional victims
Referenced but not identified
@SPLITweb3 claims "100s of thousands proven to be stolen." Victim list in 18-page report. At least 8-10 distinct individuals across all evidence.
Austin Hilton
@austinhilton • YouTube (235K subs)
"Close friend of Ernest." Promoted $MINE presale video. History of promoting questionable projects (Bitcoin Minetrix flagged as Ponzi). Allegedly lied about investing $5K.
@TrueWhaleFiles
Crypto watchdog
Documented the Feb 15, 2023 ZINU developer dump with on-chain data. Analyst, not a victim.
Andrea Federici
Chairman, White Rock Group
Managing Director at Silk Invest (frontier markets). Co-Founder of Kallisto Partners. MSc Finance from Roma TRE. The most senior named person on the investment side of the operation. Chairman of White Rock Group — the Panama fund that is the sole named investor in Splendor's $50M seed round.
"Paladin Alpha Pamp"
Telegram
Correctly identified the CSAM document as fabricated before PACER search confirmed it. Says there's "endless real dirt" on Ernest but the CSAM doc is fake. May have insider knowledge.
@minebuilder22
Telegram / Twitter
Received $MINE presale funds. "Dm your tx hash to @minebuilder22." Operational role in the $MINE presale.