Bounty cheaters using reputed members accounts to register for bounty campaign

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Rest assured, any decent manager would know that 'reputable members' won't spend their time bounty hunting or using altcoin sig which is not guaranteed when they'll get paid.

Yeah, but the problem is that bounty managers tend not to be reputable (at least the ICO-related/altcoin-paying ones), nor do I think they would waste their precious time verifying whether a registered member's username is actually the person who's participating in the bounty.  I'm not quite sure how someone would get more stakes just by entering a random Legendary member's name into their application.  If that's actually happening, then there definitely need to be some checks and balances in the application process. 

If you're bored, try asking the bounty manager to change the address to one you control 

this... may be the only way to stop the pajeets doing it.

LOL.  That would be fantastic if it worked.  It'd be like throwing a shit-pie in a scammy bounty hunter's face.

[UNOE]

I do not understand this kind of people, how much you have to be desperate to do something like that. It is sad if that even working for them, but that is mainly bounty managers fault. With serious managers this nearly shall not pass. But it is all good whenever you do not have any consequences because of malicious people.

[posi]

This is why I occasionally search through the forum with some of my details that have already been made known publicly like ETH address, social media accounts, username etc to see if some bounty cheater is making use of them to earn. I did discover my telegram username was once used.

You can serve yourself some unnecessary explanation if you make you of the search button once in a while to avoid been accused of operating an alt. The bounty managers don't care that's why this guys find it easy to cheat the system.

Doing that will definitely limit the bounty cheaters to use your account but it cant totally stop them from using your information since you cant totally figure it all out cause you'll also need to check every new bounty campaign spread sheet for you to be sure if your information aren't use and I think doing that will be back-breaking. But, the proof of authentic post still help and I will advice the bounty managers to hire some genuine people who will make sure their bounty participants provided their own info not someone else.

[TMAN]

LOL.  That would be fantastic if it worked.  It'd be like throwing a shit-pie in a scammy bounty hunter's face.

lets set a ETH and BTC address and everytime we spot one of these lets swap it out - save up and have a crypto meetup on the bounty hunters work!

[Quickseller]

LOL.  That would be fantastic if it worked.  It'd be like throwing a shit-pie in a scammy bounty hunter's face.

lets set a ETH and BTC address and everytime we spot one of these lets swap it out - save up and have a crypto meetup on the bounty hunters work!

That sounds a lot like stealing...

[TMAN]

LOL.  That would be fantastic if it worked.  It'd be like throwing a shit-pie in a scammy bounty hunter's face.

lets set a ETH and BTC address and everytime we spot one of these lets swap it out - save up and have a crypto meetup on the bounty hunters work!

That sounds a lot like stealing...

You mean like the pajeets are stealing identities to get bigger payouts? Thought that behaviour was ok with you?

[Quickseller]

LOL.  That would be fantastic if it worked.  It'd be like throwing a shit-pie in a scammy bounty hunter's face.

lets set a ETH and BTC address and everytime we spot one of these lets swap it out - save up and have a crypto meetup on the bounty hunters work!

That sounds a lot like stealing...

You mean like the pajeets are stealing identities to get bigger payouts? Thought that behaviour was ok with you?

I never said I approve of people impersonating others to get a bounty payout. But if someone is advertising for a company and you claim payment that you did nothing of value for, that is very wrong.

The proper course of action would be to notify the manager or the company/project directly.

[TMAN]

But if someone is advertising for a company and you claim payment that you did nothing of value for, that is very wrong.

Just as wrong as a Pajeet pretending to be a high rank member to get more payouts? just checking your moral compass here. Personally I think its all fucking wrong as the meetup was mentioned in Jest QS - most members are annon as you fella, its seems to me only the collectibles guys are as free with our Dox, plus some of the hardware guys

[goinmerry]

Damn I hate that part. I remembered back then when I opened the registration on my former campaign, it flooded with lots of entries.

At the same day, I received lots of PM's in Telegram and here about the unnecessary used of their forum names. I PMed each and every one just to authenticate their ETH address and did some manual checking. That was really a time consuming.

[DireWolfM14]

I'm not quite sure how someone would get more stakes just by entering a random Legendary member's name into their application.  If that's actually happening, then there definitely need to be some checks and balances in the application process.

The rank of the impersonated member might not be the important thing, it's likely the cheater is just registering as many random forum handles as he find.  It's about quantity.  Obviously by picking a reputable forum member's name they are giving the impression that the quality will also be there when they fertilize Twittbook.

[LoyceV]

I PMed each and every one just to authenticate their ETH address and did some manual checking. That was really a time consuming.

Can I offer my scraping services?
Take this account as an example:

Code:

					<td><b>Location:</b></td>
					<td>0xEF1c6d6AE70E48030B0a0b0D97346105e94d41f7</td>

If you have a list of userIDs, it's very easy to produce a list of Eth-addresses from their profile.
All you need to do, is make it a requirement to add the addy in the Location field (many bounty hunters have that already).

[morvillz7z]

I thought I could scroll down through all these 15k entries in 20minutes (don't do that...baaad idea, can't feel my eyes now). 

Some other recognizable names in there:

Limx Dev  144
Kryptowerk  153
NeuroticFish  195
HeRetik  579
JeremyB  831
coinlocket$  1137
Bitcoin_Arena  2870
TryNinja  5316
achcw101  5556
hilakriousandco  5557
LeGadulois  5794
JeromeTash  5824
lovesmayfamilis  7173
OgNasty  9486
DmdrDmdr  10099
pooya87  11191
ETFbitcoin  11195
The Pharmacist  11692
stompix  12577
philpma1957  13760
JohnUser  14331

Congrats to lucky winners! 

[TryNinja]

I thought I could scroll down through all these 15k entries in 20minutes (don't do that...baaad idea, can't feel my eyes now). 

Some other recognizable names in there:

-snip-
TryNinja  5316
-snip

Congrats to lucky winners! 

That's not me, bro.

It's my cousin called TryNninja.

[LoyceV]

I thought I could scroll down through all these 15k entries in 20minutes

There are 2k profiles in the list with a userID larger than what's being created today. It goes up to 2445106, almost 2 million more than the highest account number.

To clarify for people who got here because of Maggiordomo: the users in the list were mentioned in this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OIWy_8Bj22aTH1s_Pat9TFzMe1IWJDl0xa5spVZldT4/edit#gid=761123474

I ignored the usernames in the spreadsheet, and only looked at the profile URL. Let's see who earned more than 100 Merit:
    1. 18321: OgNasty (history) earned: 654 Merit.
    2. 34692: fronti (history) earned: 152 Merit.
    3. 36044: kano (history) earned: 159 Merit.
    4. 43526: ocminer (history) earned: 229 Merit.
    5. 43526: ocminer (history) earned: 229 Merit.
    6. 51173: mprep (history) earned: 349 Merit.
    7. 51173: mprep (history) earned: 349 Merit.
    8. 51173: mprep (history) earned: 349 Merit.
    9. 54791: Dabs (history) earned: 136 Merit.
   10. 64507: philipma1957 (history) earned: 661 Merit.
   11. 64507: philipma1957 (history) earned: 661 Merit.
   12. 65837: franky1 (history) earned: 413 Merit.
   13. 66060: kingcolex (history) earned: 113 Merit.
   14. 72795: QuestionAuthority (history) earned: 375 Merit.
   15. 78147: Cyrus (history) earned: 108 Merit.
   16. 85033: d5000 (history) earned: 437 Merit.
   17. 99837: HeRetiK (history) earned: 545 Merit.
   18. 101872: Lauda (history) earned: 912 Merit.
   19. 113670: Mitchell (history) earned: 227 Merit.
   20. 115423: Micio (history) earned: 230 Merit.
   21. 120694: xhomerx10 (history) earned: 1104 Merit.
   22. 129726: explorer (history) earned: 126 Merit.
   23. 153656: TheNewAnon135246 (history) earned: 659 Merit.
   24. 158960: teramit (history) earned: 232 Merit.
   25. 164749: stompix (history) earned: 513 Merit.
   26. 175302: Avirunes (history) earned: 177 Merit.
   27. 176777: mindrust (history) earned: 340 Merit.
   28. 209640: crackfoo (history) earned: 105 Merit.
   29. 222284: adaseb (history) earned: 124 Merit.
   30. 257071: NeuroticFish (history) earned: 193 Merit.
   31. 290195: achow101 (history) earned: 1326 Merit.
   32. 306338: dothebeats (history) earned: 121 Merit.
   33. 308793: 1Referee (history) earned: 286 Merit.
   34. 319562: JohnUser (history) earned: 207 Merit.
   35. 334898: ranochigo (history) earned: 130 Merit.
   36. 338591: Thirdspace (history) earned: 131 Merit.
   37. 346731: minerjones (history) earned: 621 Merit.
   38. 359716: ETFbitcoin (history) earned: 724 Merit.
   39. 374061: Kakmakr (history) earned: 229 Merit.
   40. 379147: pooya87 (history) earned: 608 Merit.
   41. 389271: Limx Dev (history) earned: 298 Merit.
   42. 403303: Pursuer (history) earned: 134 Merit.
   43. 452769: bones261 (history) earned: 505 Merit.
   44. 458393: harizen (history) earned: 104 Merit.
   45. 459781: Astargath (history) earned: 108 Merit.
   46. 459836: LoyceV (history) earned: 2635 Merit.
   47. 459836: LoyceV (history) earned: 2635 Merit.
   48. 487418: The Pharmacist (history) earned: 1813 Merit.
   49. 507856: LeGaulois (history) earned: 579 Merit.
   50. 521899: SFR10 (history) earned: 193 Merit.
   51. 525056: BitMaxz (history) earned: 158 Merit.
   52. 525056: BitMaxz (history) earned: 158 Merit.
   53. 552813: bitart (history) earned: 113 Merit.
   54. 553678: rickbig41 (history) earned: 114 Merit.
   55. 579628: bob123 (history) earned: 688 Merit.
   56. 664919: stadus (history) earned: 100 Merit.
   57. 696532: BitHodler (history) earned: 119 Merit.
   58. 698159: Jet Cash (history) earned: 1133 Merit.
   59. 699700: avikz (history) earned: 116 Merit.
   60. 738419: squatz1 (history) earned: 247 Merit.
   61. 765632: bL4nkcode (history) earned: 158 Merit.
   62. 803757: BrewMaster (history) earned: 224 Merit.
   63. 806776: digaran (history) earned: 112 Merit.
   64. 844914: Wind_FURY (history) earned: 269 Merit.
   65. 888099: finaleshot2016 (history) earned: 165 Merit.
   66. 897509: xtraelv (history) earned: 1040 Merit.
   67. 898928: Theb (history) earned: 123 Merit.
   68. 903702: Potato Chips (history) earned: 125 Merit.
   69. 914465: crwth (history) earned: 178 Merit.
   70. 921087: Tukang Becak (history) earned: 250 Merit.
   71. 923435: ophyrim (history) earned: 128 Merit.
   72. 947291: Polar91 (history) earned: 109 Merit.
   73. 949248: Kryptowerk (history) earned: 318 Merit.
   74. 988039: Koal-84 (history) earned: 171 Merit.
   75. 1001911: devollito (history) earned: 117 Merit.
   76. 1004212: bolshojkush (history) earned: 152 Merit.
   77. 1007192: JeremyB (history) earned: 143 Merit.
   78. 1015954: aundroid (history) earned: 321 Merit.
   79. 1018510: Matthias9515 (history) earned: 301 Merit.
   80. 1029845: ColorlessK (history) earned: 152 Merit.
   81. 1056258: mithrim (history) earned: 309 Merit.
   82. 1077067: LibertValance (history) earned: 180 Merit.
   83. 1081647: friends1980 (history) earned: 171 Merit.
   84. 1090672: Smart man (history) earned: 460 Merit.
   85. 1104013: Rhego (history) earned: 177 Merit.
   86. 1247226: logfiles (history) earned: 172 Merit.
   87. 1265260: ovcijisir (history) earned: 106 Merit.
   88. 1268116: vlad230 (history) earned: 276 Merit.
   89. 1269497: Bitcoin_Arena (history) earned: 112 Merit.
   90. 1305990: lulucrypto (history) earned: 107 Merit.
   91. 1334470: Ksjywe4ka (history) earned: 103 Merit.
   92. 1339358: gospodin (history) earned: 143 Merit.
   93. 1339716: coinlocket$ (history) earned: 971 Merit.
   94. 1433865: witcher_sense (history) earned: 185 Merit.
   95. 1582324: DdmrDdmr (history) earned: 2102 Merit.
   96. 1629451: ginette (history) earned: 104 Merit.
   97. 1740809: cryptolord2077 (history) earned: 108 Merit.
   98. 1776636: Hellmouth42 (history) earned: 253 Merit.
   99. 1795724: GrosWesh (history) earned: 176 Merit.
  100. 1819966: AdoboCandies (history) earned: 107 Merit.
  101. 1862043: cryptofrka (history) earned: 105 Merit.
  102. 1982152: lovesmayfamilis (history) earned: 451 Merit.

Who would have thought these users would all be bounty hunters

I only sorted by userID, duplicate entries mean they're in the spreadsheet more than once.

[coinlocket$]

It's a bot!

I've managed a bounty where we had one of those automatic forms for signup and it got flooded with 20k names within an hour. It just randomly assigns an ETH address to your name and hopes that nobody will notice, lol.

I've since moved to manual applications due to this, which sucks.

You can create a script for that. I haven't the skill to do it but if you ask to people to post the authentication post link and the ETH on the post, you can scrape it and if the data are not the same on the spreadsheet the script will automatically kick them out.

[suchmoon]

I think we should apply the Yobit solution here. Tempban the lot of you

[morvillz7z]

@ TryNinja Yeah, you are right...my eyes started playing tricks with me after the first 4k entries.

Well, you should be able to split the rewards with your cuz, no? 

~snip~

Damn, I've missed quite a lot of users (in my defense I was speed scrolling).

[LoyceV]

I think we should apply the Yobit solution here. Tempban the lot of you

Easy for you to say, your userID is not in the spreadsheet

[Mitchell]

Why was I mentioned in that list?

[TMAN]

Why was I mentioned in that list?

no you aren't important any more