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While browsing the Invites and Accounts section today, I noticed a Junior Member user had an avatar, which intrigued me.

'getpaidz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=32587)' was created in 2011, and mostly was posting about his various businesses, such as his URL shorter business, and his GPT site.

I believe (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38577.msg496146#msg496146) his last post was in September 2011, here is his post history (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=32587;sa=showPosts;start=20). His next post was 5.5 years later, predicting (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=783293.msg17747695#msg17747695) the outcome of that years Superbowl. Now he is selling (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124613.msg50315149#msg50315149) VCCs and Amazon SES and AWS accounts(?), and Facebook accounts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5050369.msg46897046#msg46897046).

The very long posting gap, and the transition into a new line of business (that is 'grey' at best) makes me believe there is a chance he may be hacked.

Can someone from Cryptios, or an admin look into this please? Thanks.

I think this is a reputation board concern. Not in meta 🤪

I doubt that he is hacked. He hasn't changed his email or requested a password change according to bpip so whoever it is he is using the same details as before. Maybe he just changed his business activities.

I read an article (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nz74az/bitcointalk-forum-hack-cracked-passwords-for-sale) years ago that said all the password hashes as of 2015 were hacked. I don't think the lack of a password/email change is proof of anything.

I guessed it's the same person from his previous post before his second coming you can still notice that he was very much interested in selling his services out probably his was not being patronize then or his service where not what he says they where and he got frustrated and dived into other site, sources, social media still with the same intent after some years decides to come back to the forum after he must have established several account in other social media platform(seeing bounty does social media campaign) and he is back still selling his service but this time with out even considering if he is spamming or doing the wrong thing.

Ps: If I where a hacker I would not hack a junior member account with so little quality post as he had

In my opinion: getpaidz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=32587) have slept a long time and now wake up again,

When viewed from the first post and now @getpaidz, it's still the same person.

But when viewed from the post: ( first post, on, (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=31345.msg394571#msg394571) July 24, 2011 ),
It makes no difference to the current post, active again (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5050369.msg49984100#msg49984100) (02 March 2019 ), Still giving Topic information and quotes by, @getpaidz itself.

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when viewed from the gmail bpip history nothing is changed.

https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=getpaidz

So in my opinion, the @getpaidz account, it's not hacked, aka the first owner.

By typing style(both users use a lot of points) I do not think the account has been hacked. Generally, if the user has access to http://adfo.me or any private information about it, the suspicion will be ended.
If it were not for the recent update of the trust system, I would tag him for using auto-buy URLs ;D but I think he did not do anything against the rules.

BTW; move this topic to Reputation.

BPIP only became operational in July - 2018, so there is a chance that the email address could have be changed Earlier and this information can not reflect in bpip.org

But then again, it's not strong evidence to confirm that the account was hacked.

That exactly is the point, can't imagine a hacker with his/her right senses to go for a junior member rank account where there are higher rank account with good reputation that can attract more investors to buy FB account  ;D . Maybe getpaidz has an assignment on the forum either negative or positive, so, let the account be check by Global Mods.

I don't think it is trivial to hack forum accounts. In order to do this you need to exploit some kind of weakness specific to the person.

Even if it was trivial, one might hack a lower rank account to avoid raising suspicion.

That will not worth the price, this account was created on July 07, 2011, 06:42:57 AM and s/he advertised  http://getpaidz.com on July 29, 2011, 04:56:22 AM, so, logically, s/he was out of business, and now that the bull run has come back s/he did,  to continue.