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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: Athertle on November 18, 2015, 10:20:32 PM



Title: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: Athertle on November 18, 2015, 10:20:32 PM
User in question - kevinjulio (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=537081)

https://web.archive.org/web/20151118221739/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1253069.msg13008659

He's pretending that the sig code is in the signature so that he can get earnings without having the signature. I think it's pretty obvious that he knows exactly what he's doing; why else would be put the code a couple of lines below his application?


Title: Re: Trying to scam a signature campaign
Post by: FruitsBasket on November 18, 2015, 10:23:36 PM
User in question - kevinjulio (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=537081)

https://web.archive.org/web/20151118221739/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1253069.msg13008659

He's pretending that the sig code is in the signature so that he can get earnings without having the signature. I think it's pretty obvious that he knows exactly what he's doing; why else would be put the code a couple of lines below his application?
Haha, that fake signature :D
He can not scam the signature because it is full, so he will not get any payout. I don't think it is worth neg rep.


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: master-P on November 18, 2015, 11:13:17 PM
It's still an act of dishonesty in my opinion.


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: tarsua on November 18, 2015, 11:21:28 PM
I actually saw this a few hours ago, i knew something was wrong with it but i choudnt put my finger on it
I guess he doesnt know how to make a simple line



Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: LFC_Bitcoin on November 19, 2015, 01:41:14 AM
No decent campaign manager is going to pay a user who isn't/hasn't been accepted/approved to be in the campaign.

The poster in question just looks like an idiot carrying a dumb sig that he's not getting paid for :D


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: SFR10 on November 19, 2015, 04:42:22 AM
If I'm not wrong there was a similar situation before, another thread I think in meta where someone pretended to have a signature and instead was a picture that mislead into having a signature that pointed to another website and the user was banned however on this case, the user seems to really not knowing what his doing in my opinion, if you see, after some pointed his mistake he tried to correct it so he inserted the code into the signature space and yet he haven't insert the last line, perhaps really a non techy person


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: Athertle on November 19, 2015, 04:47:37 AM
Looks like he put his signature after being pointed out. I'm not too sure what to make of this, but I still consider him to be untrustworthy.


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: Superhitech on November 19, 2015, 06:47:07 AM
Looks like he put his signature after being pointed out. I'm not too sure what to make of this, but I still consider him to be untrustworthy.

His actions are definitely out of the ordinary, but I don't see what he has to gain by putting the code in a post. The campaign manager obviously won't accept him, so he won't get paid. Perhaps he didn't know how to set a signature and found out how to do it after it got pointed out to him?


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: jt byte on November 19, 2015, 06:56:15 AM
There are bots that signature campaigns use to tell who is a valid member and who is participating in them.
He will be found out, that is a certainty.


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: Blazed on November 19, 2015, 02:12:04 PM
Maybe he was not sure how to set a signature the right way?


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: stingers on November 19, 2015, 03:27:36 PM
He might have done it by mistake. A campaign manager would certainly not accept him, so when he knows he wouldn't get any money then why would he do such things?


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: Hellacopter on November 19, 2015, 03:49:03 PM
He posted the signatue code in his post twice, so i think it's an act of dishonesty, becayse he repeated this "mistake" twice even after the remark of another user that the code isn't in the right place.
Anyway, he's out because slots filled.


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: InvoKing on November 19, 2015, 04:06:07 PM
Maybe he was not sure how to set a signature the right way?
Maybe but don't forget he is a full member so either he bought the account else it is shameful for him (+ => looking to his post quality - barely 1 line posts)  :-\


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: Athertle on November 19, 2015, 11:22:52 PM
He might have done it by mistake.

Kind of hard to do an application post, press enter for a couple of lines, and then copy and paste the signature code in by mistake. Twice.

Maybe he was not sure how to set a signature the right way?

If he really is the original owner of his account, it means he was here for a minimum of 18 weeks; plenty to learn how to set signatures. The only exception is if he bought the account, in which he still deserves a neutral.


Title: Re: Trying to trick a signature campaign
Post by: owlcatz on November 19, 2015, 11:51:24 PM
As a sidenote, a google search reveals this same kevinjulio user also once used this other account jonhotman (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=554373) and posted the the same btc address here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1181459.msg12433237#msg12433237

and here as kevinjulio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1250374.msg12983159#msg12983159

(Which isn't necessarily shady or bad/wrong, just thought I'd point that out as both accounts seem active).