Several users trying to cheat Coinomat signature campaign

[hilariousandco]

Just wanted to reference this here so I can link to it.

The following four accounts are all adding invisible junk to their posts in what I'm assuming is an attempt to get around the 75 character minimum character count of the Coinomat campaign thus cheating it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=140741 catena5260
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=359284 (Lithium)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=337394 svein
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=255797 Malin Keshar

Tampa Bay 2
Chicago 4

sdas çkda çlkd lçadjalkcjldjlkaj kladj alk

Tampa Bay 3
Chicago 2
sdçl  lçad a oqwṕeknc cak

Tampa Bay 2 @ 3 Chicago
sdas çkda çlkd lçadjalkcjldjlkaj kladj alk

slovenia 1vs 5england
[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Quote them and you get this:

Code:

[quote author=(Lithium) link=topic=828984.msg11605431#msg11605431 date=1434167212]
Tampa Bay 2
Chicago 4
[size=1pt][color=yellow]
sdas çkda çlkd lçadjalkcjldjlkaj kladj alk[/color][/size]

[/quote]

[quote author=catena5260 link=topic=828984.msg11605117#msg11605117 date=1434162971]
Tampa Bay 3
Chicago 2[size=1pt][color=yellow]
sdçl  lçad a oqwṕeknc cak[/color][/size]
[/quote]

[quote author=svein link=topic=828984.msg11605763#msg11605763 date=1434173188]
Tampa Bay 2 @ 3 Chicago[size=1pt][color=yellow]
sdas çkda çlkd lçadjalkcjldjlkaj kladj alk[/color][/size]

[quote author=Malin Keshar link=topic=715972.msg11615141#msg11615141 date=1434287389]
slovenia 1vs 5england [size=1pt][color=yellow]
[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa][/color][/size]
[/quote]
[/quote]

They're doing it on all the posts that obviously won't meet the minimum.

[Quickseller]

It seems that the "bot" to count posts is not so good after all. I wonder if these posts are being made by a bot

Maybe this is an inside job

[botany]

If it is not a bot, they must be alts of the same person.

[--Encrypted--]

additional information:
Coinomat.com (he manages his own campaign) promised that the bot will work properly by tomorrow, so we probably won't see any of that next week
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by the way, are you sure they deserve a -ve just for that?

[hilariousandco]

If it is not a bot, they must be alts of the same person.

They obviously are the same person. Think there's another that belongs to them but on a different campaign so no need to add the extra junk.

[Quickseller]

If it is not a bot, they must be alts of the same person.

The fact that they are using random characters makes me believe it is a bot. They clearly are trying to post quickly in order to increase their post count so in theory they would just type random buttons on their keyboard to have their posts meet the 75 character minimum, however some of the small characters would require a certain keyboard command in order to be displayed.

[hilariousandco]

If it is not a bot, they must be alts of the same person.

The fact that they are using random characters makes me believe it is a bot. They clearly are trying to post quickly in order to increase their post count so in theory they would just type random buttons on their keyboard to have their posts meet the 75 character minimum, however some of the small characters would require a certain keyboard command in order to be displayed.

They're probably just copying and pasting the extra stuff to be honest.

[iram1068]

Poor accounts, trying to cheat to get some bucks and now their accounts is worthless

[Jeremycoin]

I don't even know there is bot for this kind of thing
Using a bot is a very bad thing, because the others trying hard to make constructive posts. But this person do it with cheating

[marcotheminer]

I'll look into if coinomat has added rules to their sig bot.

[favdesu]

thanks for pointing it out, OP. forwarded this thread to coinomat!

[Jeremycoin]

Take a look at this
I just investigated these 3 address from each user
https://blockchain.info/address/1ANfsdJuKeE1VmMFpoQqyLqDZef6hU4VVn
https://blockchain.info/address/1A2Qw4Y5P2ddxqnQ84pjJNnHJBpvb9ySXD
https://blockchain.info/address/15Q5Y8HjAqdxHvCA6gNXi8TtUt1UbrY1FT

Every transaction that come to the wallet (which is I belive from Signature Campaign), will be directly send to another unknown address.
And every sent transaction always have adjacent intervals
So, It means that this 3 users controlled by a same person.

[Twipple]

This seems clever. But yes its cheating the campaign.

I don't even know there is bot for this kind of thing
Using a bot is a very bad thing, because the others trying hard to make constructive posts. But this person do it with cheating

There doesn't have to be a bot for it. They could just randomly type things at the end and get to the word count required. This way they don't have to drag on to their normal text.

So, It means that this 3 users controlled by a same person.

Having multiple accounts is not the problem. Even if they are alts it shouldn't matter . All accounts have got the negative trust from hilariousandco .

[botany]

by the way, are you sure they deserve a -ve just for that?

This is debatable. I would have thought a ban is more likely / justified than negative trust.

[Quickseller]

by the way, are you sure they deserve a -ve just for that?

This is debatable. I would have thought a ban is more likely / justified than negative trust.

What forum rule are they breaking?

[botany]

by the way, are you sure they deserve a -ve just for that?

This is debatable. I would have thought a ban is more likely / justified than negative trust.

What forum rule are they breaking?

Pasting gibberish (even in an unreadable font) would constitute spam.

[hilariousandco]

by the way, are you sure they deserve a -ve just for that?

Yes. They're cheating money out from a signature campaign which is dishonest.

by the way, are you sure they deserve a -ve just for that?

This is debatable. I would have thought a ban is more likely / justified than negative trust.

What forum rule are they breaking?

Spamming. Half of the posts are just crap in the giveaways threads and the others aren't up to much.

[BTCBLOGGER]

Marcotheminer himself making more than one post where one post is sufficient.
I saw he got 3 loan request when he saw those three requests he quoted each request and Sorry denied,
Denied, sorry but denied.
Awesome guy made a signature bot to scam bit-x.

[hilariousandco]

Marcotheminer himself making more than one post where one post is sufficient.
I saw he got 3 loan request when he saw those three requests he quoted each request and Sorry denied,
Denied, sorry but denied.
Awesome guy made a signature bot to scam bit-x.

That isn't relevant to this thread. Report the posts if you feel they're breaking the rules. Double/triple posts would normally be removed if they should/could be made in just one.

[ACCTseller]

Marcotheminer himself making more than one post where one post is sufficient.
I saw he got 3 loan request when he saw those three requests he quoted each request and Sorry denied,
Denied, sorry but denied.
Awesome guy made a signature bot to scam bit-x.

That isn't relevant to this thread. Report the posts if you feel they're breaking the rules. Double/triple posts would normally be removed if they should/could be made in just one.

I think his point is that his bot makes it too easy to scam the site that is buying member's signature space.

I think this is a good example as to why counting posts should not be automated