Beware of Profile Thieves

[cryptoking33]

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.


Hope this helps.

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.

[annango]

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.

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.

[keycellko]

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.

[udayantha11]

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

[cryptomagnate]

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 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

[J Gambler]

It sound like a sensible idea. Not that I like my eth address to be that public, but I guess I can always use one just for the bounties. Many managers don´t accept changes.

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.

[chocolaty]

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.

[Anubisi]

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.

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.

[Flayme]

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.

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...

[Rosilito]

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.


Hope this helps.

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.

[haroldtee]

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.