Malubit Shills and kotwica666 shilling service

[DarkStar_]

kotwica666, the signature campaign manager for Malubit, appears to be utilizing a large number of shill accounts to defend the site they are promoting from various scam allegations.

A few accounts have popped up very often in their thread to act in their defense:

dodgrad: Posting gap between Feb 6 and Feb 26. Goes from being an Altcoin Speculation spammer to gaining a sudden interest in Malubit, proceeding to make 40+ posts in Malubit's thread (out of 45). Confirmed alt of kotwica666 by Avirunes
YinShuiSiYuan: Posting gap between Feb 5 and Feb 26. Goes from posting in the Altcoin section and Freebitcoin's thread to posting 26/30 posts in Malubit's thread since the gap.
keyscore44: Posting gap between Feb 27 and Mar 5. Proceeds to post 26 times in Malubit's thread after returning, with only a single signature campaign application post in between.
altcointalk14: Posting gap between Feb 23 and Mar 12, makes 9/9 posts in Malubit's thread
cazkooo: Inactive since November 2018, comes back in Feb 2020, makes a few posts in other threads before starting to intensely defend Malubit
Naficopa: Posting gap between Feb 5 and Feb 20, comes back to start defending Malubit with the majority of their posts.

All of the accounts follow a similar pattern: posting gap, few unrelated posts, and then a rapid transition into purely defending Malubit.

They've had more obvious shills too:

andremalur: Makes a positive review on Feb 28th. When they return to defend Malubit, they conveniently happen to not have an account when arguing in favour of Malubit. Oops.

On SBR, a user happens to inquire about Malubit on Feb 7th, before becoming a site rep on Feb 20th  

Signature campaign has also led to some positive posts (for example this one from YOSHIE) that happen to be merited from their shill accounts. I can vouch for elabor77 being a legitimate account who actually bets on sports (although not recreationally).

There's probably a few accounts that I'm missing.

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[Avirunes]

Interesting one and I went out looking on further with the first user on the list: dodgrad. You will be surprised to see who is behind the first one on the list.


dodgrad request for loan in Tman's thread here:

Loan 0.04 BTC
Interest: 125%
Term Length: 6 weeks (9 January 2020)
Repayment: 0.09 BTC
BTC Address: 32NjqiJvtL4rWF9QpLjw7SckAycD1cqg1x
Collateral: 4080 4ART tokens + 32500 MYTV tokens

(Archive: http://archive.is/ZyRPZ#selection-7691.13-7691.47)


Same address: 32NjqiJvtL4rWF9QpLjw7SckAycD1cqg1x was posted by kotwica666 here:

A request to increase the loan amount by 0.04 BTC. New arrangements:

Loan Amount: 0.12 BTC
Reason for taking out a Loan: private
Amount to be repaid: 15% interest per month
Repayment Date: 25.12.2019 (with the option of extension or reduction while maintaining 15% per month)
Type of Collateral: trust
Please send 0.04 to address: 32NjqiJvtL4rWF9QpLjw7SckAycD1cqg1x

Thank you.

(Archive: http://archive.vn/qYNcn#selection-5485.29-5485.63)


And, kotwica666 is the campaign manager of Malubit signature campaign. Campaign Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5229685.0

[yahoo62278]

This may or may not help the connection of the 2 previous mentioned accounts but I recently made a post in the malubit thread and within a couple hours received a pm from kotwica666.

What are you doing in this thread?
I sent to you MyTVchain. You should not be bored ..?

Just confirms the user knows about MyTv is all i'm pointing out.

[DarkStar_]

Interesting one and I went out looking on further with the first user on the list: dodgrad. You will be surprised to see who is behind the first one on the list.

dodgrad request for loan in Tman's thread here:
Same address: 32NjqiJvtL4rWF9QpLjw7SckAycD1cqg1x was posted by kotwica666 here:

And, kotwica666 is the campaign manager of Malubit signature campaign. Campaign Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5229685.0

Nice find! Unfortunately I haven't had time to look through potential connections. I suspect some of the other accounts belong to kotwica666 as well then. I wonder if they're offering an "all-inclusive" signature campaign + paid bumps + shilling service  

I've left dodgrad and kotwica666 negative trust feedback.

[Avirunes]

Nice find! Unfortunately I haven't had time to look through potential connections. I suspect some of the other accounts belong to kotwica666 as well then. I wonder if they're offering an "all-inclusive" signature campaign + paid bumps + shilling service  

I've left dodgrad and kotwica666 negative trust feedback.

Still looking out for more but there is not much tough evidence. Some of the accounts: dodgrad, YuiShuiSiYuan, keyscore44, altcointalk14 seems to be participating in same campaign and registered one after another in some of the bounty campaigns (incl. MYTV chain bounty) but that isn't a tough proof. Naifcopa also seemed to happen quite updated with MYTVchain bounty but he never participated which makes me wonder that he had atleast his alts enrolled in that campaign. While cazkoo I am still looking for but haven't found anything related.

Also the PM that yahoo received indicates that there might be lot going on behind the scenes.

Add them all to signature campaign blacklist- that's the best thing to do atm. I will also drop my feedback on both and continue on with my search for proofs again later.

[logfiles]

Though this account is not participating in the shilling. It seems to be connected to @dodgrad. I wanted to leave this info here, just in case.

A. Connected through twitter account: https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight

1. dodgrad
quote from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1706046.msg17108576#msg17108576

Now i have over 650 followers Smiley I hope there still is one more free spot - I tweeted and retweeted one more time:

Link to your twitter account: https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight
Link to your retweet: https://twitter.com/bitconnect/status/806366088133021696
Link to your tweet: https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight/status/806474297153908737
BTC Address: 1LcPgtEEjiF37LS1R6uhCS6rBv1818Qxce

Cheers!

Archived: http://archive.fo/0qCd4#selection-6163.0-6191.7

Hi,
I voted and shered information on Twitter, but I'm ot sure how to

..provide me your share link and btc address so we can verify and make payment

so i post it here:

https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight/status/803540042413207552

Bitcoin address:    1LcPgtEEjiF37LS1R6uhCS6rBv1818Qxce
I hope it is enough to be a part of this contest
Good luck to all participants!

Archived: http://archive.fo/qNSzL#selection-4005.0-4039.30

2. wgd

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can I still join? I am on twitter: https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight, here as you can see from the legendary, please consider my candidate  

http://archive.fo/vIsyS#selection-4145.0-4118.9

#Proof of Joined Post Campaign:
Twitter Profile URL: https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight
Followers: 4153

http://archive.fo/NrHKF#selection-4201.0-4209.15

[The Cryptovator]

Interesting one and I went out looking on further with the first user on the list: dodgrad. You will be surprised to see who is behind the first one on the list.
dodgrad request for loan in Tman's thread here:
(Archive: http://archive.is/ZyRPZ#selection-7691.13-7691.47)
Same address: 32NjqiJvtL4rWF9QpLjw7SckAycD1cqg1x was posted by kotwica666 here:
(Archive: http://archive.vn/qYNcn#selection-5485.29-5485.63)
And, kotwica666 is the campaign manager of Malubit signature campaign. Campaign Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5229685.0

Great found, this is one of shady behavior shilling thread with alt account where he is managing campaign for them. I am agree with Darkstar, likely this is paid shill.

Though this account is not participating in the shilling. It seems to be connected to @dodgrad. I wanted to leave this info here, just in case.

I think you forgot to archived links,
Archived 1: http://archive.is/qNSzL
Archived 2 : http://archive.is/NrHKF
Archived dodgrad post history; http://archive.is/EUoVi

Its seems kotwica666 is a account farmer and most likely shilling thread is one of his business. dodgrad & wgd his/her alt account. Since punishment has been give to a person (not an account). So these three accounts supposed to be tagged.

Left negative feedback from my ends to three of them.

[ChuckBuck]

This situation is quite similar to Kawbet, from the start, Kawbet a few users always protect and defend them even though they do not declare any responsibility for Kawbet. They even assert the safety of Kawbet even though it is being accused 

In the case of Malubit and kotwica666, is it Malubit's requirement for kotwica666 or is it a kotwica666's own problem? I don't think that somehow a casino owns several high-rank accounts at once to use for silly purposes. They are fully able to use accounts with lower ranks. Besides, dodgrad is the alt of kotwica666, maybe this is a own problemsof kotwica666? But I don't see the motive here  Anyway, it shows that this casino is acting shady 

[yahoo62278]

This situation is quite similar to Kawbet, from the start, Kawbet a few users always protect and defend them even though they do not declare any responsibility for Kawbet. They even assert the safety of Kawbet even though it is being accused 

In the case of Malubit and kotwica666, is it Malubit's requirement for kotwica666 or is it a kotwica666's own problem? I don't think that somehow a casino owns several high-rank accounts at once to use for silly purposes. They are fully able to use accounts with lower ranks. Besides, dodgrad is the alt of kotwica666, maybe this is a own problemsof kotwica666? But I don't see the motive here  Anyway, it shows that this casino is acting shady 

Assuming kotwica666 owns all these accounts, he is likely defending the reputation with all his accounts because he is managing their sig campaign and does't want his job to end.

Obviously it's kotwicas problem, not Malubits, but it doesn't help their rep at all.

[Jawhead999]

Does this guy also Malubit Shills?

Yurkov Posting gap between Feb 22 and 11 Mar Makes 8 post in Malubit thread

If you check his merit history, he get 9 merit for 10 minutes on 1 day only from YinShuiSiYuan, dodgrad, longyenthanh, and Lavander



Since both YinShuiSiYuan and dodgrad is Malubit shills , I wonder if they are a gang of Malubit, or he is buy merits from that's 4 user?

It's just my opinion

[Pffrt]

Since both YinShuiSiYuan and dodgrad is Malubit shills , I wonder if they are a gang of Malubit, or he is buy merits from that's 4 user?

It's just my opinion

I don't think there's Malubit gang unless the campaign manager is the owner of Malubit. Otherwise, Malubit has hired kotwica666 and his gang to do this shady activities. May be they are working as bumping ann thread which is/was a very easy money making method here?

[No HATE]

Let us not make an speculation here, do stick with the evidence above.
Malubit is innocent until proven guilty, their big mistake is they hire a manager who cheats the campaign.

- Alt accounts are not allowed.

The manager broke his own rule here and therefore he should be tag for scamming the participants and scamming the owner of the campaign if they are not aware of he situation.



Thanks to Darkstar for bringing to the public what he notice, I know he will see it as unusual since he is very active in gambling board, particularly in gambling section, it's where his interest is at if I'm not wrong.

Lesson learned for Malubit, hire an experience campaign manager in the forum, I don't want to name names as I don't want to be bias.
There reputation are at risk, but they can correct this by choosing a reputable managers who does not cheat.

I wish I still had merits, I could have merit darkstar for the job well done. 

[LoyceV]

There's probably a few accounts that I'm missing.

Let's see:
The list
The following users have posted x times in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224028.0
This does not mean they're all bad users.
Merit is based on last Friday's data dump. I only show Merit if there has been at least 1 transaction. If it shows 0 Merit, that means the user has sent Merit, but didn't receive anything.
Trust is only shown if it's non-neutral.
     1. 116x (Copper Member) malubit (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     2. 83x (Newbie) radex90 (Trust: +0 / =0 / -1)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     3. 59x (Jr. Member) elabor77 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     4. 47x (Newbie) SSCEZAR (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     5. 42x (Hero Member) dodgrad (Trust: +0 / =2 / -3)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     6. 38x (Legendary) cazkooo (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     7. 34x (Jr. Member) barbaron (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     8. 33x (Hero Member) Naficopa (BPIP) (deleted posts)
     9. 27x (Legendary) keyscore44 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    10. 25x (Newbie) andremalur (Trust: +0 / =0 / -1)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    11. 25x (Hero Member) YinShuiSiYuan (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    12. 23x (Newbie) nikica99 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    13. 22x (Newbie) gatsby60 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    14. 14x (Newbie) TIMOM (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    15. 13x (Newbie) perfectto (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    16. 11x (Sr. Member) sovie (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    17. 10x (Hero Member) Text (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    18. 9x (Sr. Member) altcointalk14 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    19. 9x (Newbie) LEVSKI7 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    20. 8x (Newbie) missbic (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    21. 7x (Sr. Member) Yurkov (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    22. 7x (Sr. Member) longyenthanh (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    23. 7x (Sr. Member) MuffinMaster (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    24. 5x (Newbie) guillaumezur (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    25. 5x (Newbie) manosqq (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    26. 4x (Sr. Member) deadthings (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    27. 4x (Newbie) vipdata2020 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    28. 3x (Sr. Member) YOSHIE (Trust: +1 / =1 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    29. 3x (Sr. Member) desertfox470 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    30. 3x (Legendary) panjul07 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    31. 3x (Hero Member) tyKiwanuka (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    32. 3x (Copper Member) CryptoGamblingSites (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    33. 2x (Newbie) ImThour (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    34. 2x (Newbie) zerenicolmjen86 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    35. 2x (Newbie) realscout (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    36. 2x (Newbie) nerdyguy (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    37. 2x (Newbie) greylandm (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    38. 2x (Legendary) AmoreJaz (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    39. 2x (Legendary) kotwica666 (Trust: +0 / =2 / -3)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    40. 2x (Hero Member) DroomieChikito (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    41. 2x (Hero Member) Taskford (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    42. 2x (Full Member) Twinkledoe (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    43. 2x (Full Member) Sirait (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    44. 1x (Sr. Member) leea-1334 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    45. 1x (Sr. Member) posi (Trust: +1 / =1 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    46. 1x (Sr. Member) iamaruf (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    47. 1x (Sr. Member) indo1 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    48. 1x (Sr. Member) maxreish (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    49. 1x (Sr. Member) LordShanken (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    50. 1x (Newbie) Cobalt117 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    51. 1x (Newbie) goracha (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    52. 1x (Newbie) Alphie12 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    53. 1x (Newbie) Kakashibrullo (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    54. 1x (Member) elmanchez (Trust: +1 / =1 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    55. 1x (Member) jademaxsuy (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    56. 1x (Member) tumis (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    57. 1x (Member) TopTort777 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    58. 1x (Legendary) stadus (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    59. 1x (Legendary) ultrloa (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    60. 1x (Legendary) kryptqnick (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    61. 1x (Legendary) danherbias07 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    62. 1x (Legendary) chaser15 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    63. 1x (Legendary) harizen (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    64. 1x (Legendary) yahoo62278 (Trust: +19 / =3 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    65. 1x (Legendary) Avirunes (Trust: +11 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    66. 1x (Legendary) beerlover (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    67. 1x (Legendary) nydiacaskey01 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    68. 1x (Jr. Member) Code777 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    69. 1x (Hero Member) Diced90 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    70. 1x (Hero Member) stomachgrowls (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    71. 1x (Hero Member) Ailmand (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    72. 1x (Hero Member) arwin100 (Trust: +2 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    73. 1x (Hero Member) TopT3ns (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    74. 1x (Hero Member) carlfebz2 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    75. 1x (Hero Member) Ziskinberg (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    76. 1x (Hero Member) TimeTeller (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    77. 1x (Hero Member) Danslip (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    78. 1x (Hero Member) Haunebu (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0)  (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    79. 1x (Hero Member) game-protect (Trust: !!!:  +0 / =3 / -41)  Autobanned! (deleted posts)
    80. 1x (Full Member) Lavander (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    81. 1x (Full Member) nakamura12 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    82. 1x (Full Member) Flagship11 (BPIP) (deleted posts)
    83. 1x (Copper Member) Bitcoin Marketing (BPIP) (deleted posts)

[DarkStar_]

Though this account is not participating in the shilling. It seems to be connected to @dodgrad. I wanted to leave this info here, just in case.

A. Connected through twitter account: https://twitter.com/BTCSpotlight

1. dodgrad
2. wgd

It seems like wgd also woke up from a long period of inactivity, making their first post on Feb 25 after being inactive since May 15 of 2019. Posting gap seems familiar and I bet we would have seen that account start to shill for them too. Good find.

Let us not make an speculation here, do stick with the evidence above.
Malubit is innocent until proven guilty, their big mistake is they hire a manager who cheats the campaign.

The manager broke his own rule here and therefore he should be tag for scamming the participants and scamming the owner of the campaign if they are not aware of he situation.

Keep in mind that most of my post was speculation in terms of connections, and it was not until Avirunes' discovery that really brought forth an actual case. AFAIK their shill accounts aren't in the campaign so they didn't break their own rules.

[kotwica666]

It's true that the "dodgrad" account is my alt account.
The user "wgd" is my friend, we know each other outside of Bitcointalk. We met through Bitcointalk when we supported the "whirl coin" project a few years ago (I will try to look for this thread later) Edit: here is that thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=679134.0 In this thread you can clearly see that he has much more technical knowledge than I do.
The "BTCSpotlight" account on Tweeter used to belong to me, but I haven't used Twitter for a long time, so I gave it to the user "wgd" few years ago.
To complicate matters even more, "wgd" used the "dodgrad" account for some time. For about a year, the "dodgrad" account is only in my hands.
Before I started managing the campaign for malubit.com, I looked at the issues that took place in their thread and it seemed clear to me that someone consciously wanted to slander his name.
I decided to objectively defend the name malubit.com with my alt account "dodgrad". I bet on malubit.com and everything is fine with me, which is also why I support this project.
I have neither broken the campaign rules nor the forum rules.
I can't say much about the other accounts except that they are not mine.
Some users mentioned in the OP, as far as I remember, were members of the telegram group in which we analyzed the ICO and bounty campaigns in 2018. This group no longer exists.

I wrote this answer quickly because it is my birthday today, so let me celebrate it now and I will answer the questions later.
Of course, I encourage you to ask questions that will help to explain this situation.


EDIT:

This may or may not help the connection of the 2 previous mentioned accounts but I recently made a post in the malubit thread and within a couple hours received a pm from kotwica666.

What are you doing in this thread?
I sent to you MyTVchain. You should not be bored ..?

Just confirms the user knows about MyTv is all i'm pointing out.

My convesration with Mr. Corneliu FRIDGANT Co-Founder of MyTVchain

[cazkooo]

cazkooo: Inactive since November 2018, comes back in Feb 2020, makes a few posts in other threads before starting to intensely defend Malubit

Intensely ? lol

Whatever man, definitely not a shills here or related to any of the account mentioned above . Feel free to check  

[radex90]

guys, what can be done to see back of malubit once and for all?


I have been trying to point out at their fraudulent activities for weeks now
This level of scamming I havent seen in years


respect for what you doing

[Avirunes]

cazkooo: Inactive since November 2018, comes back in Feb 2020, makes a few posts in other threads before starting to intensely defend Malubit

Intensely ? lol

Whatever man, definitely not a shills here or related to any of the account mentioned above .

Haven't found anything relating you to this ring yet. But,

Feel free to check  

Yeah please, I already got something : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg54059820#msg54059820

[keyscore44]

I have nothing to do with the accounts listed by DarkStar_.
I have two accounts on Bitcointalk, which is officially written in my trust section. This is none of the above.

[YOSHIE]

Signature campaign has also led to some positive posts (for example this one from YOSHIE) that happen to be merited from their shill accounts. I can vouch for elabor77 being a legitimate account who actually bets on sports (although not recreationally).

Anyway, now I don't have to bet, I have to stay still, because I'm losing a boat of money, I bet on the rise of the BTC by June of this year, but today I'm at a 35% loss.

http://archive.is/wip/gjrsq

I have explained it here.

On this bitCointalk forum have mod and DT, if you have 100% accurate evidence, that person has a decision. If not, just talking nonsense can happen otherwise for you.

yes, I am currently in their sig campaign (Malubit), if @ elabor77 bet on the Malubit site and has a loss he must provide accurate evidence of the loss. Anyone can talk here. more convincing evidence.
And make the topic of accusations of fraud in reputation.

There are a few posts @ elabor77 in regards to gambling about allegations without evidence.
Example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5224028.msg54009289#msg54009289

Yeah please, I already got something : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2544574.msg54059820#msg54059820

2 Accounts Connected:
Exther2, cazkooo

they have more than two accounts, unexpectedly.

Maybe you can see their Alt account connected here; Topic: Known alts of anyone: User generated