(note: not entirely sure if this should be in Meta or here)While arguing about the legitimacy of a "
Bitcoin Short" token project (spoiler: its almost certainly not), I notice the thread is now being bumped by the same 22 accounts used to bump the same 8 projects, ad nauseum. The ring goes all the way back to November. During one particular
thread, some of them got caught and red tagged by DarkStar_, so I am listing the ones who haven't been red tagged here.
zarev21FDimarinbaxte90serojakochegas1027GamingSpainkader214ShultsJer2011jfsgladykam1llysergicblauhappygeesetangtindangnhuvinhdilin2016buserJustineHenssen1990winny_wqewwwvikas1980pankajkumar1edit - discovered & added later:amodiniclick1297bharathirajan10bimo25Alaacrdboiudfgleo909Threads being bumped (titles shortened for brevity):
🔥[ANN] Bitcoin short.🎲EOSBet.ioCoinMakers by ICO Brothers🎲🎲🎲 GG World Lottery ICO[ANN][AIRDROP][ICO] FORTFC🔥[ANN] Ura.Market🔥[ANN][ICO] GameLife🔥[ANN][ICO] TheFund.ioA lot of these are hacked accounts from 2011-2014, maybe sold by the OG forum hacker. I think they have one earned Merit between them, and 11 total... Also, 1 of these didn't bump the Bitcoin Short thread but I caught them by association, which leads me to believe there's many more out there, probably all owned by the same individual. Just asking mindless questions and then answering their own questions. What a weird way to "make a living," if you can call it that.
Here is my sweet association matrix for your reference, though in hindsight I should have made the rows columns and vice versa. I'm no LoyceV, after all...
And what is to be said for projects that employ such services? Likely scams or just employing cheesy marketing tactics?
Feel free to add more members to the ring here if you find them.
Question for the mods: does this kind of behavior constitute a ban? It would be mighty easy to nuke the brunt of them if so. Thanks!