SCAM TOPICS AND PAID SHILLS.

[mosprognoz]

I already described this problem shortly in my previous topic, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4474753.0 but here I will try to dig a little bit deeper.

All of us know that due to enormous amount of scam ICO's and crypto projects, Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube banned all adds and advertising related to crypto. So, only Microsoft bing, LinkedIn ads and bitcointalk are available for crypto advertising at the moment.

Also bitcointalk mods are sending all giveaway threads to trash can, because of new regulations on the forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2103690.0 That happened after Deepopnion "Airdrop" scam was introduced, that broke all records of amounts of posts in one thread by paid shills "Airdrop Participants". https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2006010.0

Because of that, scammers changed their tactic and now they are using so called "Shilling Services" to bump their threads on bitcointalk. I will try to explain how it works:

1. Scammers are buying accounts in Russian and Indian boards "Goods" where you can buy any account starting from Juniors and finishing with Legendary members. Junior member account is around $15 and scammers prefer them, because they are cheap. I used to know a Russian dude, who bought 40 Jr.Member accounts and hired 4 guys for $7 a day each, to post from all that bought accounts daily in one thread.... So if you see the new thread with a lot of posts from newbies and juniors (Answering each other and saying how good this project is) just stay away from it. Always check the posts history of suspected paid shills. Usually you will find a big gap in posts (One month and more) Also very often you will find out that dude was posting in Russian or in other language and suddenly started to post in English.

 

2.Scammers are hiring professional paid shills. (Service) That services are relatively expensive $ 2 -3 per post (Only full members an higher ranked members are posting in the tread.) The problem of such threads is the poor English of Paid Shills. That dudes are using google translate or just copying the posts from other threads. But now scammers found a solution for that problem too. There are services that are offering "Quality English posts for posting in threads" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4427536.0 That services are selling posts that are related to crypto, written in perfect English language.

Some examples of threads bumped by using services mentioned above.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3223704.0 (Confirmed Ponzi Scam)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3202250.0

Feel free to add anything.

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[digaran]

I would like to add something: since from every 1000 ICOs 999 are scams, I'd suggest you and every investor to ignore any advertisements on signatures related to bounty section. they should only care about Bitcoin signature ads because scammers don't like to spend anything. so when you see a ad which has a token, garbage coin payment, stay away from them.
We also need some active DT2 members in local boards to tag these scums.

[Theb]

I think LoyceV has made a solution for this problem and he talk about it in his thread. He talked about not counting the latest post of low ranking members (Jr. Members- Newbies) to bump a thread to the top of the first page. But LoyceV only suggested that to low ranking members which are Jr. Members and below are part of this bump service I didn't know until now that there are now Full members part of the bumping service, maybe they are preparing for the possibility of that being applied in the forum, but from that point I see that the cleanup will be easy as there will be less members to watch out too.

[jointherevolution]

Twitter and other social media might ban crypto all they want but crypto promotion still exists there. What I mean to say is I don't agree that only Bitcoin Talk and the other two mentioned exist for promotion. You cannot place an ad, yes. But you can pay people to advertise coins for you.