Bounty cheaters using reputed members accounts to register for bounty campaign

[TMAN]

What campaign is this for? Who runs it?

[1715022898]

1715022898

[1715022898]

1715022898

[1715022898]

1715022898

[SFR10]

What campaign is this for?

Smathium ^[archived]

Who runs it?

Decoded

[coinlocket$]

by the way is a very old technique. On this sheet the red one was reported by me long time ago, still missing a lot of them.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z9fTA-P8zynx-I3GEzGaY1IVTtDPYzaL8JkCskPC764/edit#gid=1610161553

(collector 0xb2759649BB91062Bdfa526276804576C961559ac https://etherscan.io/address/0xb2759649bb91062bdfa526276804576c961559ac#tokentxns)


Guess what?

he is the same scammer

5/4/2019 17:22:34   LoyceV   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836   @ImranAhammed   0x65841a528F1a6417cb835F9eb19211dd4c0e9dbB      

https://etherscan.io/address/0x65841a528F1a6417cb835F9eb19211dd4c0e9dbB#tokentxns

https://puu.sh/DpC9p/64b468ebc3.png

[Decoded]

As you can probably tell by the spreadsheet, I have been away for a little.

Bitcointalk links are mainly used for communication, not necessarily verification from my past campaigns. Only in extreme cases (scammer, serial reports/offences, etc). Sorry this has gotten so many people involved. This has happened in a previous campaign, where there were thousands of telegram bots entering, one every couple of seconds into my campaign. They were all kicked in the end.

Obviously, you all haven't been hacked (unless it's something unrelated). Someone is scraping usernames for use of farming bounty tokens even though you can sign up with multiple accounts under one bitcointalk account, and I have no idea why they would.

EDIT: To stop this i'll see what I can do to put in captchas into the next form we do.

EDIT 2: I can't find a way to make captchas work without making it easy to get around, as theres no actual captcha support. For now I can make it so you require a google account, and you can only apply once. But this means legit people with multiple accounts cant apply more than once.

[50 Cent]

I found other telegram bounty cheat use another member
here MITOSHI CRYPTOLOTTO sheet : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_LLbJ38kiOEjuBxcNXu9yZNLnvVf4FYKyrYq6YeHgIk/edit#gid=10716989

Dabs sheet no.17
TheNewAnon135246 sheet no.86
Gavin Andresen sheet no.94
Stunna sheet no.180
Lauda sheet no.203
LoyceV sheet no.229
Cyrus sheet no.17

Cheater use administrator and staff for cheating.

and Gavin woke up

[coinlocket$]

I found other telegram bounty cheat use another member
here MITOSHI CRYPTOLOTTO sheet : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_LLbJ38kiOEjuBxcNXu9yZNLnvVf4FYKyrYq6YeHgIk/edit#gid=10716989

Dabs sheet no.17
TheNewAnon135246 sheet no.86
Gavin Andresen sheet no.94
Stunna sheet no.180
Lauda sheet no.203
LoyceV sheet no.229
Cyrus sheet no.17

Cheater use administrator and staff for cheating.

and Gavin woke up

Just report them to manager, we can't do anything about it since anyone can complete spreadsheet with fake data.

[NeuroticFish]

Just report them to manager, we can't do anything about it since anyone can complete spreadsheet with fake data.

I've reported, I've got this answer:

Sorry, was away on a trip w/out internet. It appears someone is applying under other people's bitcointalk names, even though there is no restriction on the amount of accounts someone can apply with.

Bitcointalk accounts are used for communication and banning in subsequent campaigns, if someone wants to use other peoples, it shouldn't harm anyone, except themselves.

And my name is still on the list. So the manager doesn't care at all about cleaning up or doing something about the impersonators.
Probably in the future I may get onto certain lists of users that are not allowed to join certain bounty campaigns.


I am thinking that I may leave @Decoded negative feedback. Ideas?

[LoyceV]

I am thinking that I may leave @Decoded negative feedback. Ideas?

I wouldn't tag him for this, it doesn't fit the description:

Code:

Negative - You think that trading with this person is high-risk.

Personally, I couldn't care less if I'm blacklisted from spamming bounty campaigns.
I also know it's a terrible amount of work to manually go through thousands of lines in a spreadsheet, and remove the many imposters. It gets worse if they can just use the same wrong username again. That just means the campaign has fundamental flaws.

I've reported, I've got this answer:

Bitcointalk accounts are used for communication and banning in subsequent campaigns

This doesn't make sense. It's not allowed to send bulk messages based on entries that anyone can make, I haven't received any communication based on the fake entries, and blacklisting is useless as long as they can use random accounts.
A very easy fix would be if the bounty campaign doesn't ask for Bitcointalk usernames at all.

And if they insist on using Bitcointalk usernames, this offer is still valid:

Can I offer my scraping services?

It's very easy to make this abuse impossible.

[NeuroticFish]

Personally, I couldn't care less if I'm blacklisted from spamming bounty campaigns.

Well, I might care of them. Indeed, it's something extremely rare, but sometimes I still try to join campaigns.

I also know it's a terrible amount of work to manually go through thousands of lines in a spreadsheet, and remove the many imposters. It gets worse if they can just use the same wrong username again. That just means the campaign has fundamental flaws.

Yes, it's flawed, yes, it's a huge amount of work to fix it for everybody.
But searching for my name in a few lists and cross it out is a 5 minutes job.

Bitcointalk accounts are used for communication and banning in subsequent campaigns

This doesn't make sense. It's not allowed to send bulk messages based on entries that anyone can make, I haven't received any communication based on the fake entries, and blacklisting is useless as long as they can use random accounts.
A very easy fix would be if the bounty campaign doesn't ask for Bitcointalk usernames at all.

Correct. And it should not be hard to also remove one column everywhere.

[TheBeardedBaby]

I just open the first it most comments and there you go
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j33OLjIa4S1uOqgX7KhInzkhxs_oYsOkIZPY5UoPLlE/edit#gid=1247449807
In the twitter campaign you can see many know faces

[Mitchell]

Cunts.

[fortunecrypto]

Cheater just copies your username and profile link and registers for the bounty.
Cheater can do this with as many accounts as they want well aware that reputable members like you could never visit the bounty section to participate in the bounties
This mostly happens with bounties who managers do not emphasize proof of authentication

I have encounter that so many times I have at least three entries scammers using his own wallet, that is why only participate in a bounty campaign, where there is a proof of authentication, or visit the spreadsheet more often to check if there is double entry of your name.