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Recently, I joined a signature campaign. After a few weeks, when I check the spreadsheet, there is someone who joined using my profile with a different ETH address. What I did was I reported it to the bounty manager so that they can take action about it. This is to remind every one to always check the spreadsheet whatever campaign you join to prevent those cheaters using other people's effort to gain some coins.

What might happen if I didn't check the spreadsheet?

First, the bounty manager might delete the two accounts thinking that you are cheating in the campaign with two different addresses and you lose all your efforts in that campaign and the possibility of being tagged too as a cheater and receive a negative trust.

Second, the one who use your profile will be the one who will receive the payment and you will not receive anything or the team might pay the two accounts so it will be a lose for them because they paid someone for free.

What can you do when you notice that someone use your profile?

First, report it to the bounty manager just like what I did to prevent those cheaters.

Second for support, you can put your ETH Address in the location field in your profile as a validation that you are the real owner of the account.
https://i.imgur.com/tNfYE1s.jpg

Hope this helps.

I'm also sick of seeing spreadsheets there are many other people's job thieves, it's easy they just replace some letters from the username and take a real participant's link profile. Your way may be effective, but the bounty manager should also make a rule that each participant must make a post for proof of registration following the campaign.

That's right. That's actually a good thing to do.
But most of the time, the bounty manager determines which account is the real owner in order of priority, so I'm not worried about that.

Wow, thieves are every where now. I am glad to know and thank you for sharing the experience. We should all be careful about this and check the spreadsheet more often.

Yes, the forum should at least have a place to put the ethereum address till than the bounty manager should rather look at the location to know which ethereum address to pay to. Though a simple proof of authentication post requirement would solve much of the problem.

I've seen profile theives are much more active in content creation and telegram. Anyone can make a telegram and automate joining a group from thousands of IDs and to save tine, they just provide random bitcointalk profile list which can easily be copy pasted from any other campaign.
Bounty managers should strictly ask to make a proof of authentication post from the said ID and never depend completely on Google forms.

Everything you have said here is very correct. Few people in the forum are cheaters who want to reap from where they did not sow. They go to the extend of adding your profile link with their own address to profit from your own efforts. I think what i do in such cases i quickly notify the bounty manager.

that doesn't seem like the user's fault and there is nothing you can do about it unless you are willing to spend time 24/7 watching every altcoin/bounty campaigns out there and see if someone is abusing your account name.

the fault falls on the managers who should only interact with the accounts themselves not using outside of bitcointalk means to communicate like a spreadsheat on google to sign up instead of a comment on bitcointalk.

That kind of trick should be limited by often to check the spreadsheet to see the update and progress of the bounty we participated, stealing other work will impact to disadvantages for true participant and or the developers.

But there are times when the thief of the account is the first one who register in the campaign. I experience it myself when I check the spreadsheet first especially in social media or telegram campaign that there is already someone who registered using my account. Due to hundreds or thousands of participants, they are taking a chance that the manager wouldn't be able to check that they are just thief of the account. Maybe it is a newbie because most of the time, they are not allowed yet to join a campaign so the most likely solution to this would be a proof of authentication post so that those cheaters wouldn't be able to get away with it.

There are so many thieves and this is job to bounty manager.  But as participants which will get the disafvantages, we should help bounty manager to check the spreadsheet so we can inform the manager about this and get clear about the work.

I just hear about this. In usually case it only cheating in airdrop campaign which need a bitcointalk profile. But, it's so crazy because it happen in signature campaign.
Yes we must be aware about this, especially in signature campaign is usually the big pools rewards. It's not only affect to us, but to other because they might dump the coin if they received the coin too.
Thanks for information.

Have seen this scenario several times already and yeah the best thing to do is to report this to the manager as soon as possible. This usually occurs in airdrop and social media campaigns. Proof of authentication post has been adopted by some bounty managers which really helps in eliminating these cheaters.

I myself have encountered this situation in the past. I was with the Boosteroid project when someone registered my details but with different ETH address. Good thing, I have informed the manager beforehand and corrected everything.
I guess the most prone to these are those with high ranks since it corresponds to higher amounts in case the plan of that thief succeeds but everyone still needs to be careful and diligent.

Yes newbies are not allowed to join in signature campaign but i really don't think that is a newbie because first of all it's a beginner they not have enough knowledge about crypto currency or in forum. Maybe a few newbie and most of them are old in crypto like sr. to legendary member that an expert in crypto.

there are lot of thieves right now. some using your profile to earm token and have a different wallet address. if you can encounter this report immediately to the bounty manager so that they will know that they are uaing fake account to earn their tokens. and always be sure when you sign up not to give all the impprtant details such as your private key, even on kyc if ever it ask for an ID better to send an secondary ID's only.

Thanks for the awareness you've shared my friend. I also do have experienced with cheaters circling around this forum. Be aware guys before you join in any bounty campaign,  make sure to check first the spreadsheet before applying, because one time, when Im about to apply, gladly I checked the spreadsheet, and much to my amusement, my bitcointalk username was already in the spreadsheet but using different eth and profile link of fb or twitter or telegram.  So be careful guys.

Thank you very much for the warning, it is useful to know all to avoid such problems and be careful and attentive. There are a lot of dishonest people,they try to seize in all ways other people's assets. And it is always useful to know what methods of theft are invented to protect themselves from them.

I have seen this scenario many times, and like what you said, the bounty manager determines who is the real owner by noticing it in their posting and answering, if it is the same  on the old post or not, but many participants who are joining in any campaign, their account who has a higher rank is usually bought only, so theres a possibility that the type of posting will change.

Thanks for the info. That is the thing that I will put in mind and always check the spreadsheet if there is same username. To avoid stealers for my work. Never thought that it will be possible because most of the time when you create a username there is a prompt that the username is taken and one way they can steal our work. I just hope my rank get higher fast so that I will be prone to this situation and hope that they are no higher rank stealing our work.

I think this kind of behavior in the our community detest me so much, I hate people who change other people's information just to earn money. Thanks for your information, it's going help us achieve one purpose, that of eradicating profile thieves in the system.

We can’t guarantee whether a newbie has less knowledge, there is no clear basic to demonstrate that sort of thing. Because we all know that nowaday, people can access the knowledge easily. A newbie, perhaps,if he  has prepared for himself an intimate knowledge, a flexible skill.. he completely have capible of stealing our account. Generally, some are kind of intelligent one that we should be cautious. Truly, everything can occur in such a mass community. It’s quite normal when we are stolen our account, we’d better to adapt with this thing.

I heard this happened in some bounty campaigns. This is just crazy. They're taking advantage of the anonymosity of wallet addresses. That's the reason why governments are pushing for kyc in order to trace to whom a wallet address belongs to. We just have to verify all the time if its still correct in the spreadsheet to avoid this.

I too noticed it. In telegram bounties thats every where happended. Thanks for update like this

I hate these bitcointalk profile spreadsheet thieves, if there is any way we can eliminate them completely in our community we should do it. Reporting them to the bounty manager is one of the best solutions. These cheaters must leave us alone. Thanks

Hmm to be perfectly honest, I'm thankful for the informations that you've given because it is on interesting. And I'm also hate those thieves people. They are nothing bu a selfish creatures. To be honest, don't trust too much and be very careful when it comes to your accounts.

People nowadays will do anything to earn money, even through cheating and making their fellow member miserable. Thank you for this enlightening. I didn't even think that this occurs. I hope that campaign managers will now be aware of this. I think it is best to keep other profile info of participants private. Eth address can be used by participants to know their stakes to avoid being cheated.

In one case, the bounty manager only deletes the second account that uses the same information. However, I really appreciate your reminder that everyone involved in the bounty should seriously check his form and confirm that his information has not been stolen.

You know I've already know people who get victims by this wrong doing...  And the negative impact of it is after he participate in campaign and do his part. He didn't recieved a right amount of token as a payment for his work...  You know it is really dissapointing if it happens to us...  So always check the spreadsheet and if you can put your ETH address below your profile it is much better...  We need to be always aware about it...  Especially those who are begginer in crypto world...

There are people who are going with this kind of thing. Thanks to your effort posting this kind of issue. You are lucky to notice that people are stealing your account to steal your effort. But once you are in the signature campaign using a signature as a sign that you are participating to a certain, first factor is that once they stole your profile and join the other campaign I guess they wouldn't be able to join unless they reapply your account on your campaign using different wallet address.

I recently encountered this as well and I really do not think it should be a problem for one to verify himself to the manager since you have a hold of your profile and can easily just use the profile to report directly to the manager as to which is right and who is abusing the campaign by cheating or posting directly on the thread with your correct ETH like the OP said. It is just funny though that the mentality some people have when it comes to cheating can be so appalling and disgusting.