Is Bitcointalk forum compromised?

[myrkul]

Maged says you're a scammer, and all the accounts are the same person.

I tend to believe him.

I hope you didn't spend too much on those accounts.

[deedee_1987@hotmail.com]

yes, I asked maged to confirm that information by PM message.
I also offered to help confirm the identity of the persons.

I can assure you all the accounts were registered in our campus, not by the same person.
It was incentivated by one of our colleagues that wanted to trade with us, but are all legitimate accounts. Therefore I don't understand why they have to be marked Scam...

I just think is a bit unfaire, but....

[John (John K.)]

Spammers and scammers should rot the in coldest spot in hell. *looks in spambox*
Anyway, I'm quite sure that Maged is correct here. In case you didn't read, the forum policy specifically points out that spam is a bannable offense here anyway, and pointless posts are counted as spam.

[deedee_1987@hotmail.com]

by the forum rules is mandatory everyone makes 5 posts of "spam" to be allowed to post where we want.

Even so, we all tryed to say something "usefull". And all in the newbies section, of course.

So, we are not spammers nor scammers.

We are of the IT course, all with legitimate accounts, legitimate e-mails, everything correct.

[organofcorti]

I'm a developer, registered a long time ago, and now back to the game...

What exactly did you develop?

[theymos]

You're not from a university IP.

[John (John K.)]

by the forum rules is mandatory everyone makes 5 posts of "spam" to be allowed to post where we want.

Even so, we all tryed to say something "usefull". And all in the newbies section, of course.

So, we are not spammers nor scammers.

We are of the IT course, all with legitimate accounts, legitimate e-mails, everything correct.

No, spam is not allowed. I tend to delete such posts when I see them in the newbie subsection.

[myrkul]

You're not from a university IP.

Probably not named DeeDee, or born in 1987, either.

[deedee_1987@hotmail.com]

check the ip's of the usernames you marked spam, and see if it's from the university IP

please check facts, not posts... 

[theymos]

check the ip's of the usernames you marked spam, and see if it's from the university IP

please check facts, not posts... 

The one I checked was from telepac.pt, same as you.

No, spam is not allowed. I tend to delete such posts when I see them in the newbie subsection.

Me too. I also ban people who post nothing but insubstantial garbage.

[deedee_1987@hotmail.com]

let me give a sugestion, if you don't want spam posts from newbies, remove the limitation on the 5 posts.
and put a 2 way registration check (mobile for example)
avoyds this kind of confusion, limits the amount of accounts each person can create, etc etc

about the spam in newbie area, if I want to comment on a different topic outside the newbie section, what is the alternative before the 5 posts?
check on particular post and just say my opinion? It's always spam if I'm just talking...


thanks anyway
dee

[Alex Zee]

deedee_1987, the other side of the issue is that many of these accounts transfered XRPs to one 'master' account and then just cashed it out. I don't have time to trace all of them, maybe Ripple folks would help with some scripts, but a few that I checked manually seem to follow this pattern. And this does make it look like a scam.

For example, here is joan48elis:

https://ripple.com/graph/#rMXDo4eStcmfUxsXRX2f5ZoNNothQsjhx4



How nice.

I also wonder, why did you mention Susana? Is it because she didn't get anything, right? So her address won't look suspicious? Clever boy!

P.S. That, by the way, is about 1,500 dollars at the current price. Not bad for one account. Way to go, Joan 48!

[deedee_1987@hotmail.com]

hi alex,

As I wrote before, we all registered the accounts because one of the guys told us to do it (he wanted to buy our accounts, but we ended up selling him the XRP directly.)

And as I also wrote, we exchange our XRP with BTC, but not with that exchange rate 

about the suspicious activity you say about susana, if that would be correct I wouldn't post here with my accout, since I also received the ripples and sold to him... right?

as it look suspicious I will not insist in this idea, but I still think is very unfaire

besides this question, I have no moral authority to say anything, since I haven't been a colaborator in the forum, and many of the guys posted in this topic have spent weeks of their lives in BTC forum teaching others.

regards to all

[Alex Zee]

...we all registered the accounts because one of the guys told us to do it...

What are you all slaves or something?

And as I understand, you have a time machine too? So this guy told you to register because he wanted XRPs and your group of students quickly jumped back to 2011 and registered all these accounts?

[RodeoX]

i know it's not mine, it's of the community

at least it was why the founder made it, dont you agree?

Where can we send our ID's ? real members, not spam or scam

What University? Perhaps someone could visit and meet ALL of you for lunch?

[Alex Zee]

And what an interesting choice of nicknames for a group of Portugal students...

joan48elis - I assume she's your teacher, right? 48 is probably her age.

williamsnider72 and emoryyrer96 - what a diverse group of students! Community college?

bryankfurw05 - are there lots of Bryans in Portugal?

TheRonPaulKid - of course, Ron Paul is big in Portugal.

This looks more and more believable...

[Raize]

Worth noting, Ripple's entire system is designed to be "gamed" in this fashion. One guy accumulates~500k of XRP and trades it to one of these poor other guys that is exchanging for BTC without realizing this is probably one of the dumbest ideas ever contrived. The scarcity of Bitcoin is built-in to the algorithm. The developers cannot simply change it, the miners have to also accept it. With Ripple, the scarcity of XRP is done by decree, which we all know provides a single point of failure: the developers. Worse still, this acts just like any other pre-mined alt-coin.

TL;DR: Those of you buying and participating in Ripple are getting scammed. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but you're certainly going to get scammed.

[Matthew N. Wright]

TL;DR: Those of you buying and participating in Ripple are getting scammed. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but you're certainly going to get scammed.

Statistically this applies to Bitcoiners too.  

[Alex Zee]

With Ripple, the scarcity of XRP is done by decree, which we all know provides a single point of failure: the developers.

I don't think that's accurate - when the system is properly distributed it will be as hard to change as bitcoin limit. But let's not hijack the topic There are plenty of Ripple pro/con topics here already.

[Raize]

My apologies. I didn't mean to steer the thread in a different direction. I just see this as the end-game of Ripple, creating multiple identities helps you benefit from the system, so it encourages more and false participation, much like dead people voting in elections. I would venture to guess this is just a sysadmin for a small college, or someone using listserve creation permissions to create multiple accounts.