[LIST] ANN threads that are using bumping services

[PrimeBitExchange]

I mean, if you did a few of these simple things and, in addition to reporting, report it, the moderator will not pass by (at least this is the case in the Russian section). But if you still don't see enough evidence, you can PM me or this thread, then I can dig deeper.

From my experience, mods really need strong proof to delete topic, at least here in English part of the forum. Thing is, airdrop spam is usually easy as spot as posts are even more redundant than those made by bumping service, and usually there is some proof of posting incentive, whether through airdrop sites, or sometimes they advertise that in their telegram group, like in this example. In those cases, topics usually get deleted.


Two new threads added:

PrimeBit.com - P2P Exchange Platform for P2P Currencies, up to 200x leverage
Exchange platform that hired bumping service few days ago. Accounts used are also active in several projects that are doing the same thing, among them is one obvious scam, ZYX.


🔥🔥 EGGSBOOK TOKEN - A COMMON CRYPTO-CURRENCY FOR P.O.P. BASED GAME 🔥🔥
Another thread that hired bumpers recently. I've tagged OP of that tread previously for impersonating another bounty management service. All the other threads where accounts are active have been previously added to the list.

I am writing regarding the quoted post.

Short description what happened:
One person from the team agreed to a test check of "Vitor Services" without consultation. He did it just before the weekend. The weekend made us realize what was happening late on Monday. In Tuesday immediately we resign of this unethical service. They stopped a few hours after our resignation.
At the moment, the entire thread has been almost completely cleared of Vitor posts, and the accounts are probably banned by moderators.
No one at PrimeBit is looking for such advertising services. It was a mistake resulting from poor verification of the company offering the marketing service.
Please try to understand this and we would be grateful if you will remove Primebit from this infamous list.

Let me know if you need additional information to make a decision.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Furthermore, sometimes batches of accounts will overlap from thread to thread; meaning that it is possible to connect which threads have hired the service based on the accounts posting in them. Here is the best way to demonstrate a spam farm, by demonstrating the overlap between threads and the cluster of accounts [...]

This is just a small heads-up: I just reported all the posts (actually not all, but >99% of them) made by the 20 users mentioned by nutildah in that Excel file (around 350 posts). All of them were deleted by the mods already and the accounts are as clean as Brand New I'll take a look later over the other links mentioned below nutildah's post.

@nutildah, as a small note, you have the user medalizich noted twice in the Excel file

Edit: I just cleaned 3 more topics.

Another project with bumping services.

ANN BaexDapp - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5278713.0

I just reported 14 spams from the above mentioned topic. These were all the spam posts I found. Maybe others were deleted already.

Two new threads added:

PrimeBit.com - P2P Exchange Platform for P2P Currencies, up to 200x leverage
Exchange platform that hired bumping service few days ago. Accounts used are also active in several projects that are doing the same thing, among them is one obvious scam, ZYX.


🔥🔥 EGGSBOOK TOKEN - A COMMON CRYPTO-CURRENCY FOR P.O.P. BASED GAME 🔥🔥
Another thread that hired bumpers recently.

I just reported 22 spams from EGGSBOOK. These were all the spam posts I found. Maybe others were deleted already. I did not find any spam on PrimeBit. I guess this topic was already cleaned before the cleaner came in

[nutildah]

This is just a small heads-up: I just reported all the posts (actually not all, but >99% of them) made by the 20 users mentioned by nutildah in that Excel file (around 350 posts). All of them were deleted by the mods already and the accounts are as clean as Brand New I'll take a look later over the other links mentioned below nutildah's post.

Wow, great going, that's a lot of posts! Out of curiosity, when you report the posts, what comment do you give in your report? Do you write "Spam" or... what do you write? My top labels for reports of bumpers are:

low value post
spam
off-topic

sometimes if a post is particularly bad I'll write:

zero value post

"Low value post" seems to be my go-to.

[Rikafip]

Short description what happened:
One person from the team agreed to a test check of "Vitor Services" without consultation. He did it just before the weekend. The weekend made us realize what was happening late on Monday. In Tuesday immediately we resign of this unethical service. They stopped a few hours after our resignation.
At the moment, the entire thread has been almost completely cleared of Vitor posts, and the accounts are probably banned by moderators.
No one at PrimeBit is looking for such advertising services. It was a mistake resulting from poor verification of the company offering the marketing service.
Please try to understand this and we would be grateful if you will remove Primebit from this infamous list.

Let me know if you need additional information to make a decision.

First of all, I am glad to see that you realized your mistake, admitted it and stopped with their "service". As a matter of fact, this is the first time since I created this thread that someone admitted hiring "marketing agency", and even naming. Because of that, and because you reacted relatively fast (in a matter of couple of days) I will remove your name.  Hopefully more names from the list will do the same and stop using these kind of services.

Regarding Vitor Services, they are known name here on bitcointalk, and they are responsible for majority of thread bumping on this forum. Almost every time when I add new thread to the list, it is possible to find connection with one of their older clients. By the way, how did they offer you this? Did they contact you directly on the forum (and if yes please share the account name) or it was done externally?

I just 22 spams from EGGSBOOK. These were all the spam posts I found. Maybe others were deleted already. I did not find any spam on PrimeBit. I guess this topic was already cleaned before the cleaner came in

EGGSBOOK just started with their bumping, so that's why I think number was so low, but from my experience it is a good thing to start reporting immediately as sometimes they just give u when they see that posts have been deleted regularly, basically on the daily basis. Regarding Primebit, I reported those few days ago, but there weren't many posts to begin with.

"Low value post" seems to be my go-to.

I am personally using " ANN bumping spam", and when I am cleaning thread that is proven scam,  use " ANN bumping spam, promoting scam". Those are my two that Im using in 99% of the cases when reporting this.


Latest addition, making it 74th on the list.

[ANN][POS] UCACOIN - Community Coin ICO Upcoming
As reported by @nutildah, they recently started with thread bumping. Some accounts used are new, and some  are part of previously tagged group of accounts that also abused merit system, among other things.

This farm is back, now spamming for a project called UCACOIN. I'm gonna go ahead and tag all of them. One tag wasn't enough to stop them but maybe 2 will be, who knows.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Wow, great going, that's a lot of posts! Out of curiosity, when you report the posts, what comment do you give in your report? Do you write "Spam" or... what do you write?

Hehe, thanks! I was in a sort of reporting frenzy these days. Actually, in less than 2 days I made almost 2000 good reports! I reported 718 posts of all users mentioned here, 870 posts of all users mentioned here and ~350 more posts of all users mentioned here.

Regarding my comments for reports, they vary depending on the offense. I use the most the following ones:

- for newbies spam-bumping - "Zero value post"
- for OP spam-bumping - "Breaking rule 21. Old bumps should be deleted" or "Breaking rule 32. Posting multiple posts in a row"
- for casual spammers (those trying to farm their accounts with more posts or those trying to get more posts inside a signature / bounty campaign) - "Spamming with zero value posts, in various boards" or "Spamming with zero value posts, in various boards, in order to have more posts for the signature campaign he is a part of" or "Spamming with zero value posts, resurrecting old threads and breaking rule 32. Posting multiple posts in a row"
- for shillers - "Constantly shilling a website" or "Constantly shilling various websites".

EGGSBOOK just started with their bumping, so that's why I think number was so low, but from my experience it is a good thing to start reporting immediately as sometimes they just give u when they see that posts have been deleted regularly, basically on the daily basis.

I see they keep spamming the topic, I just reported now a few more posts of them. They must be kept under attention.

Latest addition, making it 74th on the list.

[ANN][POS] UCACOIN - Community Coin ICO Upcoming
As reported by @nutildah, they recently started with thread bumping. Some accounts used are new, and some  are part of previously tagged group of accounts that also abused merit system, among other things.

This farm is back, now spamming for a project called UCACOIN. I'm gonna go ahead and tag all of them. One tag wasn't enough to stop them but maybe 2 will be, who knows.

I'll try to report all the posts made by the accounts mentioned by nutildah and all the other posts made inside the respective topics. However, I'm not sure how much time I'll have during the weekend. I'll see what I can do today.

[TheAndy500]

Short description what happened:
One person from the team agreed to a test check of "Vitor Services" without consultation. He did it just before the weekend. The weekend made us realize what was happening late on Monday. In Tuesday immediately we resign of this unethical service. They stopped a few hours after our resignation.
At the moment, the entire thread has been almost completely cleared of Vitor posts, and the accounts are probably banned by moderators.
No one at PrimeBit is looking for such advertising services. It was a mistake resulting from poor verification of the company offering the marketing service.
Please try to understand this and we would be grateful if you will remove Primebit from this infamous list.

Let me know if you need additional information to make a decision.

First of all, I am glad to see that you realized your mistake, admitted it and stopped with their "service". As a matter of fact, this is the first time since I created this thread that someone admitted hiring "marketing agency", and even naming. Because of that, and because you reacted relatively fast (in a matter of couple of days) I will remove your name.  Hopefully more names from the list will do the same and stop using these kind of services.

Regarding Vitor Services, they are known name here on bitcointalk, and they are responsible for majority of thread bumping on this forum. Almost every time when I add new thread to the list, it is possible to find connection with one of their older clients. By the way, how did they offer you this? Did they contact you directly on the forum (and if yes please share the account name) or it was done externally?

Hi, I will answer on behalf of PrimeBit. I run their signature campaign and support them in marketing.

Thank you for your understanding and positive reaction.

When it comes to contacting with "Vitor services" it was not via Bitcointalk. The first contact was via an email to the PrimeBit marketing department with the offer from https://vitor-services.company/ and it was a consequence of what happened in the official PrimeBit thread.
The second time they contacted directly with me two days ago (09/30/2020) via Telegram. I don't think they checked that I am working with PrimeBit. My answer wasn't rude, but they quickly realized what I think about their service. 

[GazetaBitcoin]

I found another ANN bumping thread, which I suppose is the 75th:

[Ann] WINSSHI 🔶 ⭐️ First Decentralised Gaming Platform ⭐️ 🔶

They are spamming since August. I reported some of the posts a while ago, hoping they will calm down. Apparently, they didn't. Can this topic be added to the OP as well and also kept under attention?

[Rikafip]

I found another ANN bumping thread, which I suppose is the 75th:

[Ann] WINSSHI 🔶 ⭐️ First Decentralised Gaming Platform ⭐️ 🔶

They are spamming since August. I reported some of the posts a while ago, hoping they will calm down. Apparently, they didn't. Can this topic be added to the OP as well and also kept under attention?

Hey @GazetaBitcoin, by the time i was about to add their ANN, mods deleted it. It looks like they organized giveaway in exchange for comments which is against forum rules, and on top of that had fake team and plagiarized whitepaper. Good riddance I would say.

What happened: Winsshi plagiarized whitepaper as well as fake team member.
Today they launch bitcointalk airdrop activity campaign in bounty thread. Task: User need to make good quality post in the official announcement thread. Something is absolutely prohibited in bitcointalk community. I think with this account profile is probably scammer.

Thanks for reporting anyway, and if you have some free time on your hands, there is a big group of bumping accounts that could use some post history cleansing
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5280712.0


Two new threads have been added to the list:

🚀 WINZ.IO 🚀 MACAU QUEST 🎁 UP TO 6 BTC BONUSES 🥇🥈🥉 €1000 SLOTS BATTLE
Winz.io is casino that employed bumpers for months now. Their bumpers tried to play smart game, didn't bump too much not to be too obvious, but still there is a proof of them working on several other threads that are previously on this list (Simba storage and Free2ex). Overall I identified 17 bumpers that worked on thier thread, but there might be more. Here is the thread about it Big ANN thread bumping group identified!


ANN] Bonfi (BNF) - Innovating DeFi
DeFi projects are dodgy by default, so no surprise that they hired bumping service to help them in promotion. Overall, this one looks suspicous, so if ayone is willing to check it a bit, it would be nice

[GazetaBitcoin]

Hey @GazetaBitcoin, by the time i was about to add their ANN, mods deleted it. It looks like they organized giveaway in exchange for comments which is against forum rules, and on top of that had fake team and plagiarized whitepaper. Good riddance I would say.

As a coincidence, it seems it happened just after I finished reporting all the posts of the respective thread (164 posts).

Two new threads have been added to the list:

🚀 WINZ.IO 🚀 MACAU QUEST 🎁 UP TO 6 BTC BONUSES 🥇🥈🥉 €1000 SLOTS BATTLE

ANN] Bonfi (BNF) - Innovating DeFi

I just finished reporting all the bumps from the second thread, which means 21 posts. Curiously, I found a Hero member (gembira and a Sr. Member (kojektea) among the ones which posted there... I'm not sure if they were involved also in the ANN buimping operation or if it just happened for them to post as well... What do you think?

Regarding the Winz.io thread - man, but this one is huge! It has 36 pages... I just started reporting the spam, but I'm not sure when I'll finish though...

if you have some free time on your hands, there is a big group of bumping accounts that could use some post history cleansing
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5280712.0

Yes, I noticed earlier your post and I will take a look on all posting history of those accounts. Actually, as they are part of Winz.io thread, it means I'm taking care of them right now as we speak


Prior seeing these two ANN threads posted by you, an idea crossed my mind: to double check the 74 topics mentioned by you on the first page of the topic, in order to see if more spam occurred after the posts were listed. I started today, from the most recent topic mentioned - UCACOIN and I passed through 5 threads: UCACOIN, Baex, EGGSBOOK, Amepay and JBOXCOIN. If UCACOIN was clean, so far I reported for the other ones 480 posts (35 posts from Baex topic, 24 from EGGSBOOK, 224 from Amepay and 197 from JBOXCOIN). It seems that we have to be vigilant, as although those topics are mentioned by you, the ANN bumping doesn't stop. As soon as I'll finish with Winz.io I'll resume checking all the other 69 topics mentioned by you. It will be a huge work, but I hope that by next week to finish. Wish me luck

[Rikafip]

Curiously, I found a Hero member (gembira and a Sr. Member (kojektea) among the ones which posted there... I'm not sure if they were involved also in the ANN buimping operation or if it just happened for them to post as well... What do you think?

I must  admit that I haven't noticed Gembira being unusually active, but I saw Kojektea many times before in various ANN thread. In my opinion that user is simply very active in altcoin board, so chances are his name will appear in those that hired bumping services too. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a group of high ranked accounts doing the same thing, but on a bit higher level, not spamming one liners, and not writing too often,  making it very hard to identify.

Regarding the Winz.io thread - man, but this one is huge! It has 36 pages... I just started reporting the spam, but I'm not sure when I'll finish though...

Yeah that one is big, as they worked there for a couple of months without being noticed. It;s no hurry though, as I can see they stopped with that now since they are tagged and Winz.io probably told them to stop as it doesn't  look when you have bunch of tagged accounts writing on the thread.

Prior seeing these two ANN threads posted by you, an idea crossed my mind: to double check the 74 topics mentioned by you on the first page of the topic, in order to see if more spam occurred after the posts were listed.

I do that from time to time, mostly to identify new ANN threads, as usually they use same accounts. Unless they get tagged, in that case they just ditch them and start using new ones and we know that's  not a problem as they have unlimited supply of newbie accounts.

It will be a huge work, but I hope that by next week to finish. Wish me luck

Good luck!

[GazetaBitcoin]

I see you reported some more posts from what I left behind from Winz.io, as their topic has now only 15 pages (I left it with 18). Great job, Rikafip!

Meanwhile I continued cleaning the ANNs mentioned in OP "from down to up", Fetch.ai being the last one. Free2ex was the only one clean. If you have time and if you will, you can make a double check on these ANN topics from OP, taking them "from up to down". So I finished the ones from 76 to 67 and I will go forward these days, hoping to cover as many as possible, in the same order. If you don't have time, it's OK, I'll keep doing it, but it will take more time. If others can give a hand it would be great, but just to mention which topics they pick for cleaning, in order to avoid to make multiple reports on same posts, for making the job easy for the mods too...

[Rikafip]

I see you reported some more posts from what I left behind from Winz.io, as their topic has now only 15 pages (I left it with 18). Great job, Rikafip!

I can't take credit for reducing Winz.io to 15 pages, someone else is responsible for that. I was mostly active in ZYX (my archenemy), Free2ex and Baex, since they are still churning out shill posts on the daily basis, while Winz.io stopped since I tagged those accounts. I tend to focus on currently active ANN threads (especially if they are straight up scams like ZYX) and then when that calms down I switch my attention to others.

If you don;t have time, it's OK, I'll keep doing it, but it will take more time.

I do report on the daily basis, but can't keep up with your numbers

If others can give a hand it would be great, but just to mention which topics they pick for cleaning, in order to avoid to make multiple reports on same posts, for making the job easy for the mods too...

Good suggestion, that way we would be able to cover more ANN threads. I think that was one of the main ideas of The SpamBusters! Busting rule-breakers constantly. was to divide and coordinate spam reporting an therefore make it more efficient but somewhere along the line that practice kinda stopped.


New addition to the list:

[ANN] EXOLOVER - First Decentralized Sex Platform
Same accounts that are working on recently  added Bonfi started their shilling on above mentioned Exolover. OP of that thread has been tagged for scam promotion in the past making it even more suspicious than usual.

[Rikafip]

Two new threads have been added to the list

78. [ANN] BambooDeFi: Staking, Farming & Raindrop ecosystem.
79. Finminity. DeFi Finance solution for Community based crowdfunding

Accounts working on these two threads are also active in two previously added threads, Bonfi and Exolover. Another thing that connects accounts working on these two ANN threads is the subtle way they promote BonFi, by casually sliding in Bonfi related articles in different non-Bonfi threads/conversations. Here is one example how that looks like, but there are more of that, done in the similar manner:

There value will surely dropped based on the numbers of these so-called DEFI projects are being pumped into cryptos market, taking a cursory look at the bounty section of the forum, there are many of them popping out daily, however some of the projects might survive based the bullish outlook of the market presently,  meanwhile some investors are always selective in DeFi projects.

I agree that the future of the projects depends too much from the future of the cryptocurrency market. If cryptocurrency market will raise it will be much more simple to survive to many projects. People will continue to buy tokens hoping that their price will raise in future. Now many Defi projects use staking system to encourage people to hold tokens. Here is an article about staking https://medium.com/bonfiorg/introducing-bonfi-web-staking-7368467d18cc

Sock puppet accounts used:
pintadj
purka5
Lite_bro
ewasegun11
pyroandy
nekonoid

[Altcoin Reviewer]

ideaology - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5285038.0

Add them to your list. tons of new accounts popping up.

[Rikafip]

ideaology - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5285038.0

Add them to your list. tons of new accounts popping up.

You are right, Ideaology indeed hired bumping service. Bunch of newbie accounts created years ago suddenly appears and started shilling the thread with those fake conversations. As usual, I've decided to check their post history to see whether they are working on some other project too, and it was no surrprise that they are doing the same thing for another ANN, [ANN] Totem - platform for trading of DeFi and derivatives. That is some dodgy DeFi project with anonymous team, as always. I'll have to look into both of these to see whether I can find some more dirt. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

List has been updated with both of those names.

[Stalker22]

[ANN] Anonyme - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288431.0

A lot of paid shills are popping up these days. They're probably scammers too. As masulum reported, they offer a reward to their zombie followers for writing "positive comments" in their ANN topic.

[Rikafip]

[ANN] Anonyme - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288431.0

A lot of paid shills are popping up these days. They're probably scammers too. As masulum reported, they offer a reward to their zombie followers for writing "positive comments" in their ANN topic.

Damn, they managed to churn out more than 200 posts today when you look at https://loyce.club/archive/topics/528/5288431.html. Since Anonyme decided to give tokens in exchange for comments on the ANN as part of the bounty campaign, I won't add them to this list. Instead, I will report them (I don't know whether @Masulum already did that) to the mods for breaking one of the forum rules. Based on previous experience ANN will be either completely deleted or sent to Archive.

Most giveaway threads are no longer allowed in the Alternate cryptocurrencies sections. From now on, posting or replying to such threads could result in being banned. Existing threads will be locked.

Specifically, you are not allowed to give people any incentive to post insubstantial posts in your threads. You can't offer to pay people who post their addresses, usernames, etc. You can do giveaways off-site and link to the giveaway page in a thread, but you can't give people any bonus for replying to your thread.

And yeah, I agree this looks like  just another anonymous staking/lending platform that will perform one of those "rug pulls" at the right time. Scenario we've seen often lately.

[masulum]

@Rikafip, yes I already reported the thread before I made a warning post there. Because the thread breaking the rules, no reason for me to not to report it. The post just to let them know if someday he creates another ANN thread not doing same (if they are serious with their project).

updates: recently recheck the thread, I see mod already cleaned up the junk posts there. maybe this is the last chance, if still open posts here as part of their airdrop, maybe better for mod to locked up the thread.

[Rikafip]

updates: recently recheck the thread, I see mod already cleaned up the junk posts there. maybe this is the last chance, if still open posts here as part of their airdrop, maybe better for mod to locked up the thread.

Anonyme thread has been thrashed now, so all those hundreds of posts were in vain. I just wish mods nuked that thread sooner as it would save them some time from deleting hundreds of posts.


Two new additions to the list:

[ANN] Investro - THE NEXT STEP IN AUTOMATED SOCIAL TRADING
Beside hiring bumping service to shill their thread, I tagged and flagged Investro for using fake team member photo. This is just another proof that scammers use  every method available in order to fool people, and while hiring bumping service may not be 100% proof that project is a scam, it is certainly a good indicator that something fishy is going on and calls for more in depth check up. If you dig deep enough, in most cases you can find some dirt. You can find more about Investro and their wrongdoings in this scam accusation topic.

📢[ANN][PRESALE] Base Protocol: HOLD ONE TOKEN - HOLD ALL TOKENS | [BASE] 🚀🚀  
Same group of newbie accounts that are working on Investro are active in Base Protocol ANN. No further proof needed to see what's going on here.

[hosseinimr93]

You can add the following ANN thread to your list.
[ANN][TGE][AIRDROP] Sylo - decentralised communication network and ecosystem

Users below have made all their posts in that thread and are parts of the bumping group.

aljhon112233 (Post history)
ElegantCy1 (Post history)
krysi3 (Post history)
Moonicopter (Post history)
rampartwalk (Post history)
apostol999 (Post history)
BlueSXXX (Post history)
minic1993 (Post history)