@lovesmayfamilis Seems like your effort in this case (Salamstar) has been in vain, as this user ban has been lifted and changed to signature ban until December 31st 2020. While I agree that signature ban should be enforced more often for specific cases, I just don't see how ban evasion part could be ignored.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279396.0



Looks like  tried to hide his trail by editing incriminating post one week later. This is how it looked originally

https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5234/52344304.html


And how it looks now, his last edit of that post was on September 10th 2019. It looks quite different, only thing left is FB account.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5180282.msg52344304#msg52344304

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My question is, if all this evidence is not enough to prove ban evasion, then what is? Or am I missing something in this case?

Here we have use of the same address, social media accounts, telegram usernames etc, and still that wasn't enough. I mean, majority of the evidence in this thread comes from use of same address, and we could see in this case  that wasn't enough. I am aware of the fact that there is always a chance that someone might try frame someone else by using the address, but in this case Salamster used ETH address long after those two previously banned accounts. As a matter of fact, he even registered two weeks after those accounts got banned (they were banned on April 29th 2019 while Salamster was created on May 15th 2019. So no questions who used ETH address first.

Thoughts?

So called "Linda Horn" is without the doubt just another stock photo, like rest of the fake team.




Since you can't create flag against @Arch Crypton Game, I took the liberty to create one, I hope you don't mind, no point to wait for 6 months since activity of @Arch Crypton Game mainly  consists of creating ANN threads for dodgy DeFi projects, so better warn newbies and guests immediately since you made solid case against him. By the way, nice find, keep up the good work, and you have been very active lately!
Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2368


Yep, they thought that by using some red filter for team member photos will somehow magically fool the reverse image search.

Dobra tema i ideja, možda budem trebao pomoć sa svojim custom Best Change avatarom oko kojega trenutno čačkam, ali nisam baš previše vičan tim grafičkim programima pa ni rezultati nisu baš nešto, moj doseg je Paint . A još i treba biti odobreno, što dodatno komplicira situaciju.



Ako planiraš tako nešto, možda ne bi bilo loše otvoriti neku temu na eng dijelu, bilo bi lakše progurati ideju sa većom podrškom. Iako neće biti lako uvjeriti managere da dopuste ovako nešto kao Best Change, jer to bi značilo dosta dodatnog posla za njih, pogotovo ako imaju više kampanja. To bi značilo approvanje svakog avatara pojedinačno, za svaku novu kampanju =dosta dodatnog posla.  A neki od njih imaju nove kampanje svakih par tjedana.

Daleko najelegantnije bi bilo dozvoliti svima da koriste avatare koje god hoće, kao što rade neke kampanje, ali eto vidimo da to uglavnom nije slučaj.

Uglavnom, javim se u ovom postu ako ne budem na kraju zadovoljan sa svojim dizajnom.

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Evo sheram sliku avatara ovdje pa ako ti ili @examplens mozete malo ulickati ovaj moj amaterski uradak koji nosim. Znaci negdje dolje treba staviti logo.

+1

At best, examples provided be @Coolcryptovator  should be seen as low value posts, and imho, should be dealt accordingly, and in this came it means deleting such posts. No personal comment on topic, just c/p pieces of articles. All we need is army of newbies sharing articles and getting away with it. Who knows, maybe then we would see some change.


Well that sucks if that's really the case. You would expect something like that from newbies, but higher ranking member should know better. Low value post is low value, no matter who wrote it, or in this case copied.


This rule should be introduced not just for signature campaigns, but for posting in general. Verbatim copying should be inside quotation marks, since bitcointalk has very strict stance towards plagiarism, and that is generally seen as such (not here though).


Rule nr 1


What's the value of the post if you just copy everything, without providing any personal comment?  That way I can share news about just about anything, without knowing squat about the subject.

What happened: Helix Nebula presents itself as platform for directly helping those in need, so something like GoFundme me, but without  intermediary. It's all fine and dandy, but for such charitable platform, one would expect some kind of transparency, but there is nothing here. For me it looks like just  another dodgy project created to dump tokens via Uniswap.

ANN https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279809.0
Archive https://archive.fo/q1xQm

Website https://helixnebula.help/
Archive https://archive.fo/8GQvR


As explained in their ANN, their token Eye of God (EOG) doesn't have any real use, other than show that you helped someone. Oh yeah, anothe reason to buy thier tokens is to increase the price..


Another big red flag is their 20 ETH lottery for all EOG holders, and somehow I think that's the real point of all this, get people into buying and holding their worthless shitcoins  for a chance of getting 20 ETH. I doubt that any project with good intentions would go for something like that right from the start. Sharing here warning from @Twinkledoe



And this is how it looks when someone asks for help. People basically just share their stories, and then you can donate and get rewarded EOG tokens for that. Seems like a perfect place for scammers to sell their fake stories.

Seems like they didn't just hired bumping accounts. After some  digging (as I usually do when there is similar project that hired bumpers), I found out that  they are also part of MLM scheme that sells some kind of magical beauty products, and we all know that in these scams average people loose money and top few get rich, as in all pyramid like schemes. Anyway, I made thread about then in scam accusation board, feel free to support the flag!

[SCAM] UCACOIN-Latest project of known MLM scheme "Verway"

What happened: While doing some background checking after adding Ucacoin to the list of AN threads that hired bumping service I found out that there is a bit more going on. As a matter of fact, it is the latest addition to Verway MLM scheme  that is going on since 2017. As previously mentioned, Verway is a MLM company that typically for similar MLM schemes sells beauty/health products (magic creams that remove wrinkles in a couple of minutes etc) but as in all similar schemes, 99% of the people loose money while those few at the top benefit. Add on that fact that Ucacoin hired bumping service that promoted numerous scams before them, and you get the enough reason to open this thread and warn the others.

Flag Type 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2366

For those who want to know more about Verway and way they operate, I suggest checking this overview
https://youraffiliatesalary.com/is-verway-a-scam

Ann https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5207542
Archive https://web.archive.org/save/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5207542.240

Website https://ucacoin.com/
Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20200602224709/https://ucacoin.com/

Whitepaper https://ucacoin.com/Whitepaper/UCA_English.pdf

Verway website https://verway.com/



As in all MLM schemes, it's all about getting as many people as possible into this, and that way generate the revenue, as seen in this nice little pyramid from Ucacoin website





Regarding their coin, UCA,  it is just another heavily centralized POS quasi cryptocurrency. What's interesting  is the fact despite already being listed on several exchanges (DigiFinex, Cointiger, Crex24 among others) they also sell cards, which when you turn into UCA Coins, that you can later use for staking. Naturally, UCA is down 95% from their ICO.




As mentioned before, Ucacoin hired "marketing agency" to promote thier ANN and fake the interest, as discovered by @nutildah


And this is how it looks like on their thread. Part of the spam has been deleted, while rest will deleted soon.





Person behind both Ucacoin and Verway is Ilhan Dogan, who has long history of involvement in MLM schemes. Before starting his own MLM, he was part of LR Health and Beauty Systems and one of their top sellers. But I guess that wasn't enough so he decided to start his own scheme, again selling similar stuff.

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tl;dr
"Cryptocurrency" used for MLM scheme that hired shill accounts for promotion. Avoid at all cost.

I was a risk taker back in 2017/2018, but it didn't bring me much profit. Neither did trading, so I focused mostly on Hodl. Maybe I missed some good opportunities during this hype,  but I worry less and sleep much better. Would have been cool if I picked that Uniswap airdrop though, but knowing my trading skills, I would loose more than they airdropped.


I did try plagiarism tools at the beginning, but they didn't prove to be any better than manual checking via Google. On the contrary, it was even worse so I ditched that. At least that was my experience, maybe others have more luck with that, or they are using better tool than I did, those paid ones could be much better as I only tried free version,

Good find, I added Ucacoin to that list. Regarding accounts used, tagged them as well, even though I doubt that will stop them, since they freely used already tagged accounts, so they probably dont really care about that much. But well, it's worth trying, in the worst case scenario they will start using new accounts, as they usually do.


That guy is some piece of work, he made nice profit on this forum and all of this started with anniversary contest, which he exploited to the fullest. First through merit sale, and then he  he scammed bunch of people for some collectibles that he never delivered. Weird thing is that this guy still doesn't have any flags against him, while i thought he will get Type 2/Type 3 by now. Maybe at least Flag Type 1 should be raised, to warn newbies and guests?

Another fake ANN with malware.

User roney11996
ANN ⚡[ANN] Expanse (EXP) - (New Algo + PirlGuard)⚡
Archive https://archive.fo/nYleM


Original ANN [ANN] Expanse (EXP) - 1st Stable fork of Ethereum (New Algo + PirlGuard)
Original github https://github.com/expanse-org

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One more fake thread, same story as previous one :scammer hacks the account (probably) that hasn't been used for some time, copies Ann thread of another project and then shares his malware link.

User phrinzzy
ANN 🔥🔥[ANN] 🔥17 ALGO🔥 Qureno - An honest cryptocurrency for the community!🔥🔥
Archive https://archive.fo/kAsYP


Original ANN 🔥🔥🔥[ANN] (QRN) Qureno - An honest cryptocurrency for the community!🔥🔥🔥
Original github https://github.com/qureno/qureno/releases/tag/0.13.0.1

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Fake ANN with malware, this time Oblivion coin. Please nuke asap.

User flamessy
ANN ⬛Oblivion Coin | PoW + PoS | New Algo
Archive https://archive.fo/ExxJs


Original ANN Oblivion Coin | PoW + PoS | New Algo
Original github https://github.com/oblivioncoin/oblivion

Bome fina lova, jos  je 2018-2020 BTC bio nisko pa se dalo fino skupiti, sad to sve sigurno vrijedi dosta vise. Iako je i ova nasa isto jako dobra, pogotovo jer su uveli i bonus, nije 30 USD za baciti.  Ne znam jesi vidio, ali od sada cemo moci promijeniti i avatare, jos jedna dobra promjena.

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Po meni se isplati riskirati tako kad dodje kampanja koja jace placa, pogotovo ako si Hero/Lege, jer bez problema nadjes novu kampanju. Jebiga i ova tvoja moze isto tako zavrsiti za mjesec dana. A sto se tice isplata, mozda grijesim ali nekako mi se cini da se generalno bolje placa nego prije pola godine, ako izuzmemo FJ koji je prestao a ja ko dobro placao.

Novi mjesec, nova analiza aktivnsti domaceg boarda

Kao i svaki put do sada, svi podaci preuzeti sa @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboarda gdje mozete naci hrpu dodatne statistike ako zelite ici u detalje.

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Broj postova u periodu 1.09-30.09

U navedenom razdoblju napisano je 745 postova, sto je cca 10% manje u odnosu na 8. mjesec. I dalje jako solidno rekao bih, ovakve fluktuacije su ocekivane, a i nekako je bilo manje rasprava pa se to odmah i vidi.




A ovako izgleda broj postova po mjesecima

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Analiza merita za period 1.09-30.09

Sto se tice merita, u navedenom periodu je podijeljeno 167  sto je pad od 33% u odnosu na 8. mjesec. Ocekivan pad u biti, a ja sam mislio da  ce biti jos i veci tako da je ovo u stvari i ok, pogotovo s obzirom na cinjenicu da smo bili i manje aktivni. 167 merita na napisanih 745 postova daje prosjek od 0.22 merita po postu, i dalje solidno ali naravno dosta manje u odnosu na *. mjesec kad je prosjek bio odlicnih 0.3.


Ovako izgleda lista podijeljenih i primljenih merita po memberima, Daniel91 je bas bio aktivan kao i -CryptoViking-. Unatoc padu, vise membera je primilo merit u ovom periodu u odnosu na prosli, sto je pozitivna stvar. Kao sto se vidi, ima tu par membera izvan naseg lokalnog boarda koji su nam fino pomogli ovaj mjesec, kao @fillipone i @suchmoon. Nadam se da ce i dalje navracati na nas dio foruma




A ovako po mjesecima





Jedna novost za ovaj mjesec, odlucio sam dodati i postove koji su pokupili najvise merita, svojevrsna hall of fame mjesecna lista:

19 merita Topic: Stock-to-flow Model - Modeliranje vrijednosti Bitcoina na temelju rijetkosti by @-CryptoViking-
16 merita Re: Mala ljetna zabava by @zenrog
10 merita Re: Uniswap - "free money" by @slackovic
9 merita Re: Mjesečna Analiza za Hrvatsku Lokalnu Zajednicu (Bitcointalk Croatian) by @-CryptoViking-
7 merita Re: Mjesečna Analiza za Hrvatsku Lokalnu Zajednicu (Bitcointalk Croatian) by @Rikafip
7 merita Re: Uniswap - "free money" by @slackovic

Izgleda da si pomijesao Bitsler i Cash.gg kampanju. Po isplati trenutno jedna od boljih kampanja, 55 USD za Sr member i 75 za Hero/Legendary je fina lova. Treba više ovakvih kampanja koje dobrih plaćaju, pa će ovi novi morati povećati isplatu ako žele privući ikoga tko valja.



Znaci mozda ipak ove kampanje i djeluju, kad se vracaju. Btw, koliko su placali prije?

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2 mjesta otvorena u Tower.bet kampanji, 1 Sr Member (.0032 BTC tjedno) i 1 Full Member (.00228 BTC tjedno)

First of all, I am glad to see that you realized your mistake, admitted it and stopped with their "service". As a matter of fact, this is the first time since I created this thread that someone admitted hiring "marketing agency", and even naming. Because of that, and because you reacted relatively fast (in a matter of couple of days) I will remove your name.  Hopefully more names from the list will do the same and stop using these kind of services.

Regarding Vitor Services, they are known name here on bitcointalk, and they are responsible for majority of thread bumping on this forum. Almost every time when I add new thread to the list, it is possible to find connection with one of their older clients. By the way, how did they offer you this? Did they contact you directly on the forum (and if yes please share the account name) or it was done externally?



EGGSBOOK just started with their bumping, so that's why I think number was so low, but from my experience it is a good thing to start reporting immediately as sometimes they just give u when they see that posts have been deleted regularly, basically on the daily basis. Regarding Primebit, I reported those few days ago, but there weren't many posts to begin with.



I am personally using " ANN bumping spam", and when I am cleaning thread that is proven scam,  use " ANN bumping spam, promoting scam". Those are my two that Im using in 99% of the cases when reporting this.

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Latest addition, making it 74th on the list.

[ANN][POS] UCACOIN - Community Coin ICO Upcoming
As reported by @nutildah, they recently started with thread bumping. Some accounts used are new, and some  are part of previously tagged group of accounts that also abused merit system, among other things.

If you are really the owner of that that you should be able to edit that post from cryptotalk and add some info like the link to your salamstar account, and stating that you posted the same text on bitcointalk, or something along those lines. In that case, you might have some chance to remove the ban.

Recently there was a similar case, Incorrect ban for plagiarism - I copied my own text and from what I can see, it still haven't been resolved even though OP proved that he is behind the original content.

Edit :I just realised that you are ban evading as well. In that case, I think that your fate has been sealed.

Join the club.

I think that's just a mistake of a person that made their ANN, he simply used the wrong link. And they were so lazy and incompetent that they didn't even check if links are working properly.


Until I checked HelioSwap, I never even heard about FalconSwap as I'm not really into DeFi and I stay away from it. One thing always surprises me is the fact that scammers tend to copy well known projects, while that generally makes it easier to spot. They are just that stupid sometimes.


I've tried some tools at the beginning, but now I mostly use good old Google. Nothing fancy, just that. And after some time you start seeing some inconsistencies so it makes it a bit easier to sport. For example, part of the whitepaper was written in subpar English, and then suddenly you have parts clearly written by someone fluent. That's a big red flag, and usually means that part has been copied.

@qwertyup23 Good job with all these reports, just one small suggestion, since I see that you are on  DT2 (even if you weren't it is a good thing to tag scammers) : it is not a bad idea to tag the OP of the fake thread due few reasons:

• That way you will warn the others that stumble upon the thread, as even though fake threads are deleted pretty fast, in some cases it might take a day or two.
• For some reason, not all accounts get banned, so it is a good thing if account has been tagged already if scammer decides to use the same account
• It helps the others that are reporting such threads, as when I see the tag, I know that it was reported already so I don't have to check this thread.

Cheers and keep up the good work!

Super ideja i jako dobro odradjeno, nadam se da ces imati vise srece nego ja sa svojom Pizzom haha . Merit posaljem cim nesto skupim, standardno sam uvijek na 0.

Fini intervjui ekipa, i sigurno spadaju medju najzanimljivije, a procitao sam ih vecinu. Jos jedan dokaz da smo medju boljim posterima. Mene je isto kontaktirao prije par tjedana ali mi se nekako nije dalo bakcat sa tim, ali sad ste mi dali poticaj da i ja to odradim.

When I saw those two posts made by that guy it looked kinda suspicious, as his first post was too well written for a brand new account, and from my experience, it is usually plagiarism, and 2nd one wasn't properly referenced He even got some merit for it. Just a little bit of reverse image search of the chart he shared and voila, he did copy his "analysis" from some Iranian website. He just Google translated it and that's about it. Here is one small example. Just shows what kind of people begs for merit.





Source: https://coinsara.com/bitcoin-big-reaction-bulls-likely/


By the way, sorry for the offtopic, didn't want to derail this topic, but had to bust this guy.

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Regarding the merit begging, aren't there enough merit giveaways threads in Beginners&Help section? Some of them were even closed due low interest, so I really don't get why would anyone do that. So far I haven't experienced that, but if I do, I might consider neutral tag for those.