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This is just for the record. I don't want to accuse any of this users but we all know the possible reason is they have an alt that might be try to claim more one with this eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign.

After this user Medusah (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=3549558) gives merit of one of my post in eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign  I immediately checked his account because he's not familiar to me.. After checking his account/trust rating, I saw this notice: This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity. And I'm sure that it is because of eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign Launch.
(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.0;all)

Then I check users who was not familiar for me, post with same activity and post count and found this user who also recently woke up from a long period of inactivity.

FleurTunisienne (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=879855)
blckhawk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=997120)
mirtotanota (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1699849) No notice of This user recently woke up from a long period of inactivity. but there's more than 1 year gap from the last post prior to the application for the eXch Anti-Phishing Campaign.

Medusah is extremely knowledgeable about Bitcoin and all-things privacy. I don't think they are an alt of the other accounts, which appear to be more generic. But the other accounts may be alts of accounts that also joined this "campaign." Any time someone is giving away BTC for something trivially easy to participate in, their thread will be flooded with alt farms. This is just the nature of the forum, and somewhat sadly, human beings.

Actually the accounts that are posting their BTC address after the main impersonating culprit has already been taken down (without suggesting they are contributing in any way) are more suspicious.

It is good that you bring this but I do not think they have any bad motives from waking up from their sleep. If anyone notice anything suspicious about the accounts, they can be tagged.

But I guess some people may still go ahead to give them neutral trust based on the fact that they have just woken up since a long period of time.

If you read the exch campaign rules, you will noticed that no one can cheat. I am talking about this:


Or do you think people will not have known such domain exist before 6 months?

When I read the campaign rules, I noticed anyone may not get any reward.

Just because they know about Bitcoin and all-things privacy, does not mean they aren't an alt. In fact, it makes it more likely that someone who joined in 2023 and has such knowledge is an alt, because having this level of knowledge with such a short period of time on the forum is rare.

They are also aware of how the activity system works since they joined:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3549558;sa=showPosts;start=400

If you view their posts from when they joined, just one or two posts in each activity period. Very informed posts too. Very strange for a new member to know so much about Bitcoin by default.

Trying to throw off a scent here nutildah or is this just another one of your "how could I have possibly known" moments?

I agree that Medusah is very likely to be an alt, and agree that this user waking up just for a share in the campaign is highly likely. Nice catch xLays.



I disagree and believe that there are bad motives waking up from their sleep to participate in a highly and unusually lucrative campaign.



This has nothing to do with anything. It simply states that any phishing domains that are older than 6 months will be added to the campaign. Not relevant to this topic at all.

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I'm motivated to find all alts in that thread. Seems like a perfect honeypot thread to catch accounts that are being farmed.

The @Medusah (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3549558) account's last post was on July 5, 2024, and the @blckhawk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=997120) account's last post was on July 8, 2024.

Both accounts are engaged in Bitcoin discussions, Games and rounds.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/18/0KjiI.jpeg

Also, both accounts became active on March 15, 2025, and participated in the Anti-Phishing Campaign.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/18/0K1wd.png

I strongly believe they are alt accounts, as evident from what I mentioned and the writing style of both accounts. What do you think?

You should have provided more concrete evidence first and then made the thread. Anybody can say any two accounts are alts, but its meaningless without direct evidence, which most commonly includes linking crypto addresses or sharing the social media accounts. Not a good idea to open threads based on what could be coincidences.

Here's why I think they are not alts: Medusah seems to be a native English speaker whereas blckhawk does not and has posted in Filipino language since their account's inception all the way through Dec 2023. That doesn't rule out the possibility that both accounts have alts, but they are not alts of each other.


You are a complete asshole.


Then stop talking about it and do it. Words are cheap. Action is priceless.

What I have concluded might be just a coincidence since there is no strong evidence here. I agree with you, nutildah, and I appreciate your input.  :)

Well, your conclusions seem convincing, although I'm surprised that all these accounts were active solely to participate in the campaign. In any case, if I come across anything new, I'd be happy to share it with you all.

We hope the eXch team will adjust the campaign rules to limit participation in the campaign to active forum accounts that have received at least 10 merit within 120 days. That would be a good measure to prevent any fraud.

Each of them could have alt accounts, perhaps even participating in the same campaign. But they'd hardly be the first accounts to wake up for sake of participating in a new campaign.


Agreed. Given their lack of rules concerning alt accounts, they probably just aren't very familiar with the lengths that people will go to here in order to earn a little bit of extra BTC.

I don't think sophisticated bad actors will be caught by linking crypto addresses or sharing social media accounts. I think that a sophisticated club who specializes in profiting from this forum is more than likely to be able to go undetected by most eyes, in fact, one might even say that they might publicly brag or even subtly disclose their syndicate, thinking of themselves as invincible...though that's just what one might say.


What makes you think that the Medusah account does not purposefully avoid that board or that both of these users are controlled by a group of people rather than an individual, one of which can speak filipino? Is the possibility that one or more individuals who are experienced in avoiding detection by farming accounts not being considered a possibility alongside the greatest fact of them all in this scenario?


These are very strong points, much stronger than anything nutildah has countered with so far. These accounts are clearly being used to profit from the forum and are more than likely to be connected to the same individuals or group of individuals who are profiting from the forum using multiple accounts.



I'll always take that over being negligent to or pro corruption, especially if me being an asshole is coming from the someone who fits either of those descriptions.


I am quite fine collecting quotes and posting when I feel the time is right, thank you very much. At the end of the day, these exchanges only strengthen the overall case.


Since there is one month delay between the domain going down and the payout, I've already started a private investigation which I will make public and provide to exch to help filter out cheaters before they pay anyone out.

If you don't rely on matching wallets and such, how can you prove the existence of alternative accounts? Just the words "it seems to me" and "I think" do not work as evidence on the forum. So if you started your "private" investigation, please bring your findings to this thread, and not just as a volunteer detective of alts for the exchange.

(Wide smile)

Alternative accounts:
https://ninjastic.space/addresses?address=bc1qpnlme03wm3uqjq72njrwexklrm8r37r3v3t8l8




https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/19/0pE0J.png
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?from=blckhawk&to=Peanutswar

https://ninjastic.space/addresses?address=bc1qxxm007893fxht2al37skdjwyxn3fjrqnyrx57g  in question

One does not need to prove the connection to whom which the alt belongs to in order to know if they are an alt or a part of an account farming practice. Enough proof can be gathered to support if an account is genuine or abusing the forum/its campaigns, and there can be links through other key pieces of information (which i'll later disclose/make an example through this investigation) thanks to ninjastic and bpip. In fact, I caught a respected/once respected member blatantly farming an account with blatant abuse of merit. No blockchain evidence needed. Just a keen eye :D That will be posted soon, and I am very confident the account they are farming will be tagged and ruined (just letting them waste their merit first). Sure, maybe the perpetrator is not caught in the act on-chain, but I'm sure enough evidence can be gathered to prevent the account from being profitable to use, which will be enough to piss some folk here off :)

Of course I will bring the findings to this thread, as I said I am privately investigating now but I will make it public before I provide it to exch.

You're an asshole not just because you like to troll me with unsubstantiated accusations from thread to thread, but also because you simply don't know what you're talking about, and you talk in volumes. Nobody has ever accused me of being "negligent" or "pro corruption" except for you. Words are very cheap, especially when coming from someone who never backs up their accusations. All you do is give opinions, which any ass can do.

I've already said multiple times that while my research will take a lot of time to substantiate enough to be posted publicly, but that does not mean my research isn't compiled enough for me to speak with confidence that the problems exist, that you are aware of it, and that you choose to ignore its existence (thus I suggest pro corruption or negligence on your behalf). I do not plan to post until I am sure that I am ready for every backfire possible (as I'm sure I will receive) through substantiation, and I am sure this could be understood by anyone considering it involves high profile members.

As for being an asshole to you, you repeatedly go out of your way not to deny your awareness of any existence of corruption of high profile members, which is why you're suspected of being negligent or involved. I welcome you to deny existence:
I have no idea about, have no involvement and am not associated with any group who have negatively impacted the forum/community through negative/unethical actions motivated by profit or by manipulating forum mechanisms.

Though I doubt you will...I have welcomed you to do so for a while, yet, you refuse (as did other high profile members who I more than suspect are a part of the problem).

Additionally, when you come to threads like this one and defend an account that is obviously being farmed with such ridiculous reasons like "they are knowledgeable about bitcoin and privacy", adding on what you have already displayed to me in other threads, how could I not reply like how I did?

The sensible thing to do would be to confirm or disconfirm what I said for yourself. But you didn't. You immediately started trolling me without doing the slightest bit of research whatsoever. If you had done it, you would have realized that I was correct. Take note, this is what actual research looks like:


It gives anyone reading this thread something to confirm for themselves. What you are doing is just going by hunches, the weight of your own ego, and what appears to be the need to be contrarian to anything I have to say.

This is why you will never be on DT:


The smart thing to do would have been present the evidence first and then issue a tag. But you rushed this out because of your insatiable need to contradict me.

I'm not going by hunches, there's enough to suggest that Medusah is very likely to be a farmed account. I'll include my rational in another post.

Though lets assume ignorance by all, how would your post saying that the person is not an alt because of their knowledge any different? You also did no research other than comment on their posting style as reason as to why they are not an alt? Is that a real reason? It seems to me more like a cover up, which is why I entered the thread as I did.



None of what I said was inaccurate and the rating was not negative. I don't see an issue with my rating and will support it with more information down the line.

This is also not the reason I will not be on DT. I was assured to never be on DT the moment I created a thread that was not in the interest of the groups who benefit and influence the forum most.

I am also hardly surprised to see that you ignored my welcoming for you to clearly deny any idea, involvement or association with any corrupt groups:

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lovesmayfamilis I'm sorry that this thread had seemingly effected your trust with me, and I truly hope that the decision to remove the rating was none more than your own, and not suggested or as a result of any kind of manipulation by any other member who claims that I am a troll, when I am not.

I don't understand the reasons for your arguments with many users who lead nowhere. The behavior of a person who regularly argues makes me click the "ignore" button because it is very similar to a troll; besides, I disagree a thousand times with your review about the unprofessionalism and dishonesty of Nutildah.  And yes, I would like to see evidence of the alternative nature of the account you left a review for.

You can be good at security, but still be very arrogant and confrontational. For a man, this is so-so... ::)

I'll be honest, the terms of this campaign were too vague.

Basically you get part of 0.1BTC for any domain that goes down if you just post an address??? What proof is there that the emails sent is connected to the poster for instance, and what proves the singular humanity of each poster posting an address.

eXch meant well but I'm sure they didn't completely think this through. First of all there's going to be a lot of spam against registrars just to grab a piece of juicy rewards. In my view the ideal scenario would have been rewarding those users who could prove they sent an actually readable and common sense letter to registrars. But that's just my style to be honest. Evidently the spamming worked against some registrars already.

But those registrars actually interested into following procedures may want to conduct an investigation first in which case spamming them is likely to take away from the seriousness of the case.

Anyway, it's their campaign. Hopefully they'll implement some common sense policy when distributing funds. Yes, arbitrary decisions do make sense sometimes. Maybe don't disqualify everyone who had an account wake up after years, but at least reduce their part of the rewards to something very small especially if they couldn't be arsed to write a proper letter to registrars. I'm sure even for writing to registrars there's going to be a lot of AI slop.

We know exactly what we are doing.



Don't take it wrong, but do you really think that a company puts so much money on the table without conducting real verification of the work done?
We can read everything, check everything, because to be able to claim the reward, we have to be in CC.

eXch is a good project putting a lot of effort towards providing a much needed service so I can say that I trust in your conscience. Don't get me wrong either, I'm not accusing you of doing anything wrong and I'm sure you know what you're doing.

But here's the thing, the vagueness in the thread along with the large amount of money on the line gave incentive for many likely hacked or farmed accounts to be activated from their hibernation. Should something be done about it? Maybe, maybe not. These dubious accounts and spammers are mostly exposing themselves so just by some pedestrian discussion like what we're doing here it's easy to discover their scheme.

I am not part of the Exch staff/team or advertiser, but if you took time to read the Announcement and thread, you would not be writing this paragraphs. Everything is clear on how they will know who to distribute the reward to.

They did think through it so well, you clearly didn't  ;)

For your information, two domains have already been brought down within a few days... so, isn't that effective according to you yet?

Those who try to cheat their way through may still receive nothing, but at the end of the day, what matters most if they don't have any notorious phishing domains jeopardizing their service.

Stop worrying about the Bitcoins they are offering. They have spent way more in donations and other things.

Damn @logfiles  ;D I certainly didn't mean to come off like that

What I mean wasn't thought through was that spammers would be attracted so much. Of course the campaign is successful though.

The spammers/cheats will be flushed out. We are watching   ;)

No you won't. If you were going to present any evidence to back your claim, you would have done it by now. The thing is you have no evidence.


Again, 100% speculation with nothing to back it up. I pointed out that not only are the writing styles of Medusah and blckhwk completely different, but that their native language is different as well. So that strongly suggests they are not alts of each other. If there's a cover-up at work here, its on you to expose it. But we both know you're not going to do that because you've been bullshitting this entire time.


That's the problem.


I highly doubt it.


This is off-topic for this thread. Feel free to open a reputation topic addressing my corruption. I could use a good laugh.

I'm time poor and to be quite frank have been worried and contemplating the end result. I have already said that a lot of evidence is circumstantial however it is evidence nonetheless that there is a problem in the higher echelons of the forum. It has only been validated since I began discussing it, with the dodging and weaving when asking yourself and others to deny it.

I will post, I am just making sure I do not shoot myself in the foot any more than I already have by discussing it prior to posting the thread to begin with. Combining this with my lack of time does not make this a quick process.


I don't really understand the relevance of Medusah or blckhwk being alts of each other when the original topic was talking about users who had just woken up to join the campaign:


The topic has been Medusah and the others being an alt of anyone, not an alt of each other, which is why I found your post to be so preposterous (as what you said in the context of Medusah being an alt of anyone, combined with my research, it looks like you are covering up either for yourself or a farmer that you know of or are associated with).
 

That's the problem.



You're welcome to doubt it - I don't see why one would be so convicted with nothing to support their conviction. Anyway, sure we will leave it here and you can have your laugh when the threads are posted.

I would be worried too if I made accusations about forum members and was caught squarely talking out of my asshole.


Meanwhile, despite your flurry of accusations, you haven't validated a single thing. Not once. Which is why you are now distrusted by 9 DT members.


Good. Even though you'll never admit it, you now see my point about presenting the evidence before making accusations.


Its because you didn't actually read and digest information in the OP or this thread in large. You just saw my post and felt compelled to troll me.


The only thing I'm "convicted" about is that you rarely have the slightest clue what you're talking about. You just talk and talk about nothing to fulfill your campaign requirement, seldom adding anything of value to any topic you engage.

That's not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about how far the corruption goes and what would happen even with good grounds.

I am not "talking out of my asshole" and if you have some patience you'll see otherwise.


This number is not much higher than how distrusted me quite some time ago. It doesn't mean much in any case.

I have said it quite a few times now, that I am creating my threads and when they are posted, they will form basis for speculation surrounding the corruption of high profile members.


I have already admitted that I do regret posting about what I should have supported with threads first. I am not afraid to admit that.



That's not true. You had drawn the conclusion that the OP was speaking about the mentioned accounts being alts, though the main focus was that they all woke up to join the campaign. That's how I interpreted it when I got here, and still how I interpret it reading back.


I was talking about myself - as in, I don't see why I would be so convicted with nothing to support my conviction. I have said many, many times that what I will post about is not a light thing to post about and that it will take time to present it, especially given my already limited time. You are only posting so aggressively now to take advantage of the fact that I am not ready to post...and you can have that while it lasts. I don't mind.


Aside from these kinds of discussions, I try to provide value in the threads that I contribute to and I'm sure others who see my posts outside of these discussions would agree. I can't agree that I post about nothing nor add any value to any topic I engage, and I think it's fair to say that your opinion is biased.

I will continue responding if prompted, but I suggest ignoring each other until I post the threads I mentioned and continue discussing there. What do you think?

I don't understand why notildah has to beef with bencodie so often. It's starting to become the new staple of forum relationships haha. ;D
I'm personally eager to see how this gets handled by eXch. It's useful to spot which accounts are following some suspicious patterns like waking up from inactivity or being alts.

But ultimately only eXch have access to the emails for reporting the domains and only they could decide how to distribute their own money. The fact that the campaign is so simple obviously attracted many such cases but ok I'm not putting this on eXch. I commented about this before and I think got misunderstood, I should have said maybe it wasn't anticipated to be faced with so much spam and dubious claims. But in the end of the day two domains are already down so if it works it works.

I'm tired of this asshole trolling me, calling me corrupt & etc. without ever putting forth any substance to back it up. If you read the thread, you'll notice I commented first and then he made a snarky reply, basically accusing me of being at least one of the accounts in question. Which is fucking stupid, and as with every single other allegation he's ever made, completely baseless.

It seems to me quite possible that not all those who sent the report to the registers will necessarily be paid. The eXch team certainly has insight into all sent reports, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are incomplete and, as you say, just plain spam.
For now, eXch has full control over this campaign, there is no reason for additional concern.

With the rate this is going, I wouldn't be surprised if all the domains were suspended by April or May.

Unfortunately it's whack-a-mole with scammers when you're dealing with phishing sites.

As I said in my last post, I will ignore you from now and I hope that you can do the same. When the thread is made (soon) then we can continue to discuss there.


I have called you this as you have made opinions that are not only in line with that behavior but affirm corruption exists in the higher echelons of the forum. On several occasions, I've welcomed you to deny any involvement or association with corruption in the forum and in return I'd leave you alone until I posted my thread, each time you refuse to deny it or even address the statement.


I made this snarky reply (being, throwing off the scent) as what you had said to excuse the account of waking up and taking advantage of the campaign was far from logical to me. I still believe that my post was fine. I welcome others aside from yourself and those associated with yourself to disagree.

As for other allegations, aside from mentioning that my research supports that a lot is amiss, it is also backed by your continual avoidance to deny that something is amiss. Since we have begun our back and forth when theymos had announced the new forum software would not be released, you and others have refused to deny involvement or association with corruption in the forum. This has mostly what has fueled my distaste for you, your own posts and actions.

The two domains on the list are not direct phishing sites, but some form of blog that points to the third phishing domain. On that side, it is very difficult to completely suspend such domains, because there are suspicious links only on 1-2 pages.
They will remove those pages at the request of the hosting or domain registrar, but they can always add them again later.  :(

You've only ever affirmed two things: 1) you're an asshole that talks out of your ass, and 2) your reading comprehension sucks.


Again, you are fascinated with the idea that the lack of something is evidence of anything. Its not. And nobody owes you anything.


OK, I'm telling you right now I've never been involved with any part of "corruption" on this forum. I'm just a forum user like yourself and am entitled to my own opinions. I don't get special treatment from the admins and have never received any compensation from them. The difference between you and me is I'm respected for the work I do here and you are not.


Likewise.

So going back to the actual topic, where's your big investigation into alts in the campaign thread? Seems like if you have enough time to troll me, you'd have enough time for that. Don't bother replying to this post as I will not be responding; instead use your time to make good on what you said almost an entire week ago:

You're entitled to your beliefs. I still don't see why one would make up what I am speaking about. As for reading comprehension, I think I manage well enough. I am only human and miss something here or there, though I reply to 95%+ of what someone says at any given time. You can't say the same. In fact, you consistently skip over key details.


Denying involvement or association with corruption is not an owing to me, and if it did not exist it would not be such an argument or debate to deny. I'm not fascinated with this idea, it is simply sound logic.


This seems to be playing with semantics. Instead of copy and pasting this sentence:


You decided to craft a completely new one that:
[1] Doesn't deny existence of corruption or that you have any idea about it, just that you have never been involved with any part of "corruption" on this forum.
[2] States that you don't get special treatment from admins, though does not include higher profile members who may manipulate forum mechanisms to yours and/or their benefit.

What you said hasn't wavered my thoughts nor effected anything that I've researched, and I don't believe that it should discredit the notion that corruption exists on the forum. If it was a black and white statement that corruption did not exist or that there are no people or groups who manipulate forum mechanisms, then there'd be no issue with copy and pasting what I had provided. I think we can both agree that no one can make that statement though, right?


Seeking a respected member's opinion here - what are your thoughts on account farming? Do you consider that a corrupt thing to do, and do you think it should be against the rules? What's your stance?


While tiresome in itself, it doesn't take as long to reply to you as it takes longer to audit hundreds of accounts with no automation. There are now over 150 responses there. I've made a start but no one should expect me to be complete given this forum is not my full time priority. It will be done in due time, which is before the 1 month period is over.

I believe it is likely that most of the accounts below also have other (alt) accounts on the forum, and after seeing the eXch campaign on their main accounts, they decided to login to these alt accounts to try and get more from the campaign. I have not gone to the extent of trying to link any publicly available blockchain information to find main accounts, though this information can be a good starting point for anyone who has the time and tools to do so.

Below are 4 accounts who had joined the exch campaign after not posting/being active for at least 12 months:

Post #4 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65168206#msg65168206) - mirtotanota (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1699849) - Inactive since January 2024 (14 months ago) before posting in eXch campaign. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1699849;sa=showPosts)

Post #63 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65172728#msg65172728) - FleurTunisienne (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=879855) - Woke up on March 16 2025 (https://bpip.org/Profile?id=879855) to join the campaign being inactive since 2019 (6 years ago) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3581472;sa=showPosts).

Post #132 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65182124#msg65182124) - LittleBitFunny (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=956421) - Inactive since November 2023 (17 months ago) before joining the campaign. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3581472;sa=showPosts)

Post #144 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65184907#msg65184907) - Amuro (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1269024) - Woke up on March 12 (https://bpip.org/Profile?p=Amuro) to join the utopia campaign and the exch campaign after being inactive since joining the forum 7 years ago (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1269024).

Below are 4 accounts who had joined the exch campaign after not posting/being active for at least 6 months:

Post #34 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65169535#msg65169535) - blckhawk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=997120) - Woke up on March 15 (https://bpip.org/Profile?id=997120) after being inactive since July 2024 (8 months ago) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3581472;sa=showPosts) (Already pointed out by xLays (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535590.0))

Post #46 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65177121#msg65177121) - Medusah (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3549558) - Woke up on March 15 (https://bpip.org/Profile?id=3549558) to join the campaign after being inactive since July 2024 (8 months ago) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3549558;sa=showPosts) (Already pointed out by xLays (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535590.0))

Post #161 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65188738#msg65188738) - joker404 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3000746) - Inactive since May 2024 (10 months ago) before joining the campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3000746;sa=showPosts).

Post #189 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65197549#msg65197549) - Cyberczar (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1114589) - Woke up March 16 (https://bpip.org/Profile?id=879855) to join the campaign after being inactive since June 2024 (9 months ago) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1114589;sa=showPosts).

Below are 3 accounts who had joined the exch campaign after not posting/being active for at least 3 months:

Post #33 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65169486#msg65169486) - Dont Trust Verify (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3581472) - Inactive since December 2024 (3 months ago) before posting in eXch campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3581472;sa=showPosts). Writing style (and trust rating page) also strongly suggests/identifies this is an alt account of another member.

Post #123 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65181052#msg65181052) - welovebit (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3669776) - Brand new account joining the campaign after being inactive since January 2025 (3 months ago) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3669776;sa=showPosts).

Post #171 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65191224#msg65191224) - Article4Tip (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3634932) - Inactive since October 2024 (5 months ago) before waking up to bump their thread and join the campaign shortly thereafter (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3634932;sa=showPosts)

Here are 4 other suspicious finds:

Post #198 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65200504#msg65200504) - yamin_galib (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3656967) - More posts applying for bounties/campaigns than normal posting. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3656967;sa=showPosts)

Post #203 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65203616#msg65203616) - Basels (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3697222) - Brand new account joined on March 21 to join the campaign and (seems like) they're making posts surrounding the entry to obfuscate the post. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3634932;sa=showPosts)

Post #140 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65184235#msg65184235) - rolypoly (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2560682) - Woke up in July 2024 after being inactive for 2 years, made one post, inactive from July 2024 to January 2024. Made 5 posts since then (2 campaign entries, 3 posts) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2560682;sa=showPosts).

Post #173 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65192302#msg65192302) - Mastercon (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=690933) - Didn't wake up specifically for the campaign though was inactive since June 2020 (almost 5 years ago) before becoming active on February 7 2025 and has since only posted to apply for campaigns. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=690933;sa=showPosts)

Account Article4Tip and ContentWriter (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3360098) application in Post #28 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535260.msg65169392#msg65169392), are alt accounts of the same person. He confirmed it to me himself. He had written some articles for me before, so we had some communication. A good part of the communication went through Telegram and I don't have everything saved in history as proof.

Will posting in the bounty thread prevent me from participating in this eXch Anti-Phishing campaign?

I only put you in "other suspicious finds" because you don't actually contribute much in the forum, you seem to just want the rewards from campaigns. You're not the main point of my post, it is up to eXch how they treat you. I'd recommend contributing a bit more to the forum, but that's just my 2 cents.


Nice catch. I kept note of ContentWriter too as they showed many signs of being a farmed/alt account, but farmed accounts without blockchain proof weren't the main focus, the main focus was just those who woke up to participate in the campaign.

There are a lot of farmed accounts on this forum ::) I've been keeping note in separate research. Hard to pin professional farmers with blockchain evidence, as they're obviously vigilant/not idiots.