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yogg (OP)
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May 22, 2018, 11:39:54 AM
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Hello,

There was this user who put up an account for sale. The thread was deleted but I had time to archive it.
http://archive.is/ZqiIa

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Date Registered: 2014
Posts: 2431
Activity: 1649
Merit: 1017
Trust rate: +4 GREEN
Comes with Registered email address.

There is no user id or name, but these stats can be handy.
Is there a way to bust it ? I can't think of one since the "members" section is disabled. Undecided
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May 22, 2018, 12:13:57 PM
Last edit: May 22, 2018, 12:47:16 PM by suchmoon
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Hello,

There was this user who put up an account for sale. The thread was deleted but I had time to archive it.
http://archive.is/ZqiIa

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Date Registered: 2014
Posts: 2431
Activity: 1649
Merit: 1017
Trust rate: +4 GREEN
Comes with Registered email address.

There is no user id or name, but these stats can be handy.
Is there a way to bust it ? I can't think of one since the "members" section is disabled. Undecided

Vod might help you, he's got the user list scraped.

I have some data too but I think it doesn't cover all of 2014. I'll check.

Edit: Looks fake. To achieve activity 1649 the user would have to be registered in 2013 or earlier.

Closest match that I could find: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=151256
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May 22, 2018, 03:12:19 PM
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Vod might help you, he's got the user list scraped.

I have some data too but I think it doesn't cover all of 2014. I'll check.

Edit: Looks fake. To achieve activity 1649 the user would have to be registered in 2013 or earlier.

Closest match that I could find: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=151256

Thanks for the info. Will keep monitoring.
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May 22, 2018, 06:57:29 PM
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Doesn't really prove anything either though as the user could just be pulling numbers out of his arse, and trying to scam. I mean it's useful if we can find the account or closest matches, and watch whether the password/email changes.

Another thing Vod's project is good for!
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May 22, 2018, 07:37:23 PM
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It is not possible to have 1649 activity and have more posts than activity.
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May 26, 2018, 06:29:32 PM
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If the seller is dumb enough to show real data, the amount of Merit makes it easy to reduce the search space, as it can only be a few accounts. This of course doesn't prove that account is really for sale.
I've tried to identify accounts from a sales thread before, but so far I couldn't do it.

There aren't that many users who earned 17 Merit. Yesterday's data:
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  1701. 17 Merit received by twice-two (#1423193) from 6 unique users in 9 transactions
  1702. 17 Merit received by tungfa (#248202) from 3 unique users in 3 transactions
  1703. 17 Merit received by swordfish6975 (#100319) from 4 unique users in 4 transactions
  1704. 17 Merit received by susila_bai (#550307) from 2 unique users in 3 transactions
  1705. 17 Merit received by sulendra12 (#785581) from 6 unique users in 8 transactions
  1706. 17 Merit received by shield132 (#841337) from 10 unique users in 10 transactions
  1707. 17 Merit received by o0o0 (#390550) from 2 unique users in 4 transactions
  1708. 17 Merit received by moneva (#1135313) from 5 unique users in 7 transactions
  1709. 17 Merit received by maxamus (#99302) from 2 unique users in 2 transactions
  1710. 17 Merit received by maro159 (#1517757) from 4 unique users in 4 transactions
  1711. 17 Merit received by markj113 (#95989) from 11 unique users in 11 transactions
  1712. 17 Merit received by maarx (#261274) from 9 unique users in 12 transactions
  1713. 17 Merit received by luckygames (#924703) from 6 unique users in 7 transactions
  1714. 17 Merit received by leowonderful (#416731) from 7 unique users in 11 transactions
  1715. 17 Merit received by lego17 (#1159476) from 1 unique users in 3 transactions
  1716. 17 Merit received by lavajumper (#94331) from 4 unique users in 15 transactions
  1717. 17 Merit received by kusumadewi (#388305) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
  1718. 17 Merit received by kumiskura (#962943) from 8 unique users in 10 transactions
  1719. 17 Merit received by kazoubg1 (#1080361) from 3 unique users in 3 transactions
  1720. 17 Merit received by kaigeta (#1045435) from 9 unique users in 9 transactions
  1721. 17 Merit received by imking (#1135347) from 9 unique users in 9 transactions
  1722. 17 Merit received by hubballi (#640438) from 2 unique users in 3 transactions
  1723. 17 Merit received by hidrocop (#999147) from 6 unique users in 6 transactions
  1724. 17 Merit received by hell_slayer (#1196028) from 9 unique users in 10 transactions
  1725. 17 Merit received by ghonkz (#966999) from 3 unique users in 3 transactions
  1726. 17 Merit received by generalizethis (#376245) from 10 unique users in 12 transactions
  1727. 17 Merit received by fulmetal08larz (#1113460) from 3 unique users in 4 transactions
  1728. 17 Merit received by emirsener (#1389291) from 13 unique users in 13 transactions
  1729. 17 Merit received by elma (#167310) from 4 unique users in 5 transactions
  1730. 17 Merit received by deort (#1204320) from 8 unique users in 8 transactions
  1731. 17 Merit received by cynical (#1128323) from 10 unique users in 12 transactions
  1732. 17 Merit received by cryptohunter (#92110) from 12 unique users in 12 transactions
  1733. 17 Merit received by cotiniber (#2014996) from 8 unique users in 9 transactions
  1734. 17 Merit received by coinforumgentr (#1521428) from 10 unique users in 10 transactions
  1735. 17 Merit received by chimk (#1202061) from 8 unique users in 16 transactions
  1736. 17 Merit received by bitmonstr (#324041) from 1 unique users in 2 transactions
  1737. 17 Merit received by apimembership (#1023367) from 9 unique users in 15 transactions
  1738. 17 Merit received by Zwei (#2004043) from 11 unique users in 12 transactions
  1739. 17 Merit received by Voron7 (#1081741) from 11 unique users in 12 transactions
  1740. 17 Merit received by Token_King (#1893109) from 1 unique users in 3 transactions
  1741. 17 Merit received by TWISTdeveloper (#1399011) from 8 unique users in 8 transactions
  1742. 17 Merit received by SidETH (#1024340) from 12 unique users in 14 transactions
  1743. 17 Merit received by Rimus (#875786) from 9 unique users in 10 transactions
  1744. 17 Merit received by Real-Duke (#405482) from 12 unique users in 13 transactions
  1745. 17 Merit received by Protected101 (#1092460) from 5 unique users in 7 transactions
  1746. 17 Merit received by P9tosya (#1828563) from 11 unique users in 12 transactions
  1747. 17 Merit received by Old God (#989041) from 7 unique users in 15 transactions
  1748. 17 Merit received by Mysticus (#975852) from 3 unique users in 3 transactions
  1749. 17 Merit received by Mr.Coinzer (#965370) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
  1750. 17 Merit received by KryptoKash (#344915) from 3 unique users in 6 transactions
  1751. 17 Merit received by Krasnoarmeec (#916634) from 4 unique users in 4 transactions
  1752. 17 Merit received by KWH (#70535) from 9 unique users in 12 transactions
  1753. 17 Merit received by JanpriX (#561804) from 8 unique users in 8 transactions
  1754. 17 Merit received by ItsZeroLimit (#1809400) from 8 unique users in 8 transactions
  1755. 17 Merit received by HunterV (#1405345) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions
  1756. 17 Merit received by Heyyyrenz (#1005172) from 11 unique users in 12 transactions
  1757. 17 Merit received by Gustavo Livecoins (#1879698) from 10 unique users in 13 transactions
  1758. 17 Merit received by Gerhald (#381304) from 8 unique users in 11 transactions
  1759. 17 Merit received by GeniusAko (#1020270) from 4 unique users in 4 transactions
  1760. 17 Merit received by Gabrieelle (#1022462) from 5 unique users in 5 transactions
  1761. 17 Merit received by GPUHoarder (#1897428) from 4 unique users in 14 transactions
  1762. 17 Merit received by Demirung (#1198793) from 3 unique users in 5 transactions
  1763. 17 Merit received by Coins4Days (#1218827) from 8 unique users in 10 transactions
  1764. 17 Merit received by Calm (#1780113) from 1 unique users in 3 transactions
  1765. 17 Merit received by BitcoinHodler (#560256) from 10 unique users in 10 transactions
  1766. 17 Merit received by Bitbobb (#862282) from 4 unique users in 6 transactions
  1767. 17 Merit received by BillyBobZorton (#381045) from 12 unique users in 16 transactions
  1768. 17 Merit received by Artemsv (#833799) from 2 unique users in 6 transactions
  1769. 17 Merit received by Anon11073 (#969327) from 6 unique users in 11 transactions
  1770. 17 Merit received by AlisaWhishie (#1704226) from 5 unique users in 5 transactions
  1771. 17 Merit received by Alex9813 (#910355) from 5 unique users in 6 transactions
  1772. 17 Merit received by Achargeturry78 (#773045) from 1 unique users in 1 transactions

From these, only a few accounts have at least 1000 Activity and 2000 Posts
I used my scraped profile data, which started on May 4. This is inaccurate to use now. I don't want to check further now, Quickseller's statement makes it likely it's just fake data anyway.

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