Long-time sig campaign farm ID'd via single wallet transaction

[rhomelmabini]

What a job these alts have done, looks like a full time job sitting in his grandmother's bench wearing the CM signature. Looks like if the other one got the max post count in a week the other alts tends not to get it done might be in a hassle but still he got the CM milked. Seeing the previous increase in BTC price this guy have made thousands a week when the new pay rates hasn't changed yet. I commend nutildah for this busting, it's not an easy one.

Adding these accounts to my distrust lists.

[JollyGood]

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Here is a screenshot of the link posted in the OP:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/2f068dddc4c24b8771bc0d46671e38d80b834198d9e99a7329d2d2a946c3fc19

~figmentofmyass
~illyiller
~illinest
~squatter
~marky89
~exstasie
~MAbtc
~romani245
~manchester93

[El duderino_]

https://blockpath.com/

Thanks for this, that's a good tool I'll probably use in the future.

What's sad is this guy has been entering his alts together in contests for a long time, too... Not very cool.

He entered all 9 accounts in a giveaway held by El Duderino:

edit: list of everyone

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3764    manchester93
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4248    illyiller
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4590    figmentofmyass
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5090    squatter
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5240    romani245
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5340    exstasie
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5560    MAbtc
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5650    illinest
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6000    marky89

Even worse is figmentofmyass has been helping to organize online poker tournaments for Bitcointalk users. I took a look and sure enough, he plays in tournaments with himself:

running list of SwC poker handles:

Code:

figmentofmyass = FOMA777
rhomelmabini = K1R1T0
Betwrong = Betwrong
Steamtyme = Steamtyme
CoinEraser = CoinEraser
manchester93 = NEpats93
Improved = Obaming
Murat = hardtime

This just crossed into scumbag territory.

Which is too bad because he's quite an intelligent guy. Hope he didn't think he'd get away with it forever.

Damn the dude even won a game from me......

What a scammer

LoL... all the prices he predicted where in very same region, he was confident

[malevolent]

How the heck do users even post with that many accounts? They have to be posting in the same threads and answering each other. I barely post on my 1 account, couldn't imagine the hell it would be to try making quotas weekly on 10+ accounts.

ChipMixer's campaign is one of the rare ones with no weekly quotas. But he was able to consistently post close to 50 posts per week on two, sometimes three of his accounts without lowering the post quality too much, since he hasn't been removed for that after thee years, but due to his sloppiness (or refusal to use the service he's been advertising ). Anyway, that sounds like a part-time job, at the very least. And he got caught just as the rates have been decreased by >75%.

in fact you're right. I know many members who think that figmentofmyass is a great user and that he's contributed alot to this forum. they consider him as their mentor FGS!! he owe them an apology or at least an explanation.

Let's see how many posts he makes without getting paid for it.

He wouldn't be the first CM signature campaign member who stopped posting after removal.

[khaled0111]

He wouldn't be the first CM signature campaign member who stopped posting after removal.

Sure.
can you provide some examples?

[malevolent]

Sure.
can you provide some examples?

gentlemand https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17P52DifaD7YfvzLkX3wrxGVpKcaPHY4y57ZpI-FK754/edit#gid=1298899162

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=155345

Stopped posting and logging in just after he was removed from the campaign, and hasn't returned since. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if he had more accounts.

[khaled0111]

he/she was a good poster (he had a unique writing style) and seemed to be supporting newbies quiet a lot. wouldn't be surprised if one of those newbies were one of his/her alts.

[JollyGood]

Well if he was that determined to have so many accounts in order to pocket cash under various guises he still might have other accounts that have not been discovered yet which might not be connected to Chipmixer but might be used in other campaigns.

Yes it seems he pocketed a lot of cash through his multi-accounts primarily through the Chipmixer campaign.

figmentofmyass joined Chipmixer campaign Week 20

exstasie - Week 25

Squatter - Week 31

Current week is 194

So this 3 accounts have been milking Chipmixer for more than 3 years.

[Quickseller]

How the heck do users even post with that many accounts? They have to be posting in the same threads and answering each other. I barely post on my 1 account, couldn't imagine the hell it would be to try making quotas weekly on 10+ accounts.

ChipMixer's campaign is one of the rare ones with no weekly quotas. But he was able to consistently post close to 50 posts per week on two, sometimes three of his accounts without lowering the post quality too much, since he hasn't been removed for that after thee years, but due to his sloppiness (or refusal to use the service he's been advertising ). Anyway, that sounds like a part-time job, at the very least. And he got caught just as the rates have been decreased by >75%.

With BTC trading at $12k, making the maximum number of posts (for CM) on three accounts would earn him what works out to around US$70k per year, and this doesn't count his likely other accounts. That is hardly part time money. I wouldn't be surprised if he had quit his job and used his sig campaign earnings to pay his expenses. If so, he probably suddenly has a gap in his resume and is in need of a job. Hopefully he has some money socked away to last him until he is able to find other work.

[khaled0111]

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if he did, then he wouldn't need a job at least for the next 3-4 years.
Let's stop speculating about how much he did earn or about how much he did accumulate. He was busted that's all that matter.
let's wait and see if he has any thing to say... we need to hear from him..

[Quickseller]

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if he did, then he doesn't need a job at least for 3-4 years.

Well he probably had some expenses and has spent some of the money he earned over the last three years, and had to sell at below $13k. It also depends on where he lives, if he lives in a third world country, he may be set for life, but if he lives in New York City, he may not have earned enough to even pay rent. He currently has around US$11,600 in his three CM addresses, and who knows how much he has elsewhere.

[TheQuin]

Another good example is this one. This guy said, "as they say", so I wondered who does he mean by "they" because I've never heard the expression said that way before. It turns out it was himself.

"They" means everyone. It's a very commonly used phrase where I originate from (London).

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+they+say#:~:text=A%20phrase%20used%20to%20introduce,as%20they%20say%2C%20is%20history.

as they say

A phrase used to introduce a well-known or commonly used saying.
And the rest, as they say, is history.

as they ˈsay (also as the saying ˈgoes) often used before or after a saying or an idiom: We can kill two birds with one stone, as they say. ♢ He was, as the saying goes, as mad as a hatter.

~Advertising a mixer and getting caught on blockchain evidence is quite ironic.

/Scratches head in disbelief.

[NotATether]

Good lord, with all the scandals happening on bitcointalk, someone could start a news network or tabloid out of it! And it would bring a lot of money from multitudes of viewers glued to watching commentary about scandals. Almost as much as FOX or The Daily Mail to be honest.

"Account farm CAUGHT milking Chipmixer campaign for 3 years"
"Yet another big loan default worth HUNDREDS in bitcoin" (to be clear I do not mean to offend anyone with this)
"Casino uses SOCKPUPPETS to defend itself in face of scam accusations"

 

[PrimeNumber7]

~Advertising a mixer and getting caught on blockchain evidence is quite ironic.

/Scratches head in disbelief.

The transaction that linked all the accounts together was made not long after he started advertising for ChipMixer using any account. Based on the posts he deleted, he probably eventually figured out how to better protect his privacy.

[NeuroticFish]

gentlemand https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17P52DifaD7YfvzLkX3wrxGVpKcaPHY4y57ZpI-FK754/edit#gid=1298899162

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=155345

Stopped posting and logging in just after he was removed from the campaign, and hasn't returned since. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if he had more accounts.

I was genuinely concerned about him missing. Now, I have this, which may or may not be relevant to the story (apologies for so many quotes).

Just noticed that Last of the V8s is still AWOL, anybody got any news from him, is he well?

Also gentlemand seems gone too.

I miss both their posts.

They’re both fine, I know them away from here.

This is good news.
I was a bit concerned about gentlemand since I thought that his account got hacked; his account is somewhat close to the "specs" from an account seller.
Maybe you notify him to check account and maybe change password, just in case.

[mu_enrico]

Fantastic findings @nutildah, I wanted to drop all my merits, but there are quality newbies to feed
I'm really impressed with these three IDs with their capability to create rather "quality" posts compared to some of the previously removed participants. It's like he never leaves his basement 24/7

Thanks, I hope you get your spot there. Thumbs up!

[Slow death]

do more than 35 post a week Is something extremely difficult, how could he do more than 40 post a week with @figmentofmyass and @exstasie accounts and still have good post quality?

this guy is a legend. he managed to drain a lot of money from the chipmixer for years and see that this is not something that anyone can do... he has good post quality even with many accounts. it looks like he has nothing to do in the real world.

my tribute to this great legend:

[NotATether]

do more than 35 post a week Is something extremely difficult, how could he do more than 40 post a week with @figmentofmyass and @exstasie accounts and still have good post quality?

this guy is a legend. he managed to drain a lot of money from the chipmixer for years and see that this is not something that anyone can do... he has good post quality even with many accounts. it looks like he has nothing to do in the real world.

Eh, I average 75 posts on a good week and it's not unusual to see me at 60 posts per week. And there are some people here who can do even more than 75 (I read in his services thread for example that @Ratimov can do over 100 posts a week).

If you browse the site every few hours then it's easy to find like 8 or 9 reasonable-quality threads or multiple posts in the same thread that you can churn out replies to at once. Do this 7 times a day and you're already between 56 and 63 posts, so spreading them across multiple accounts, already logged in from separate devices I presume, and not browsing bitcointalk on some devices on some days to give the fake impression of inactivity, shouldn't be hard

If these guys all used the same device for posting then I'd imagine one of them would've posted something using the wrong account and get busted much earlier.

[Mitchell]

If these guys all used the same device for posting then I'd imagine one of them would've posted something using the wrong account and get busted much earlier.

Wonder if they just have a bunch of cheap chromebooks that they use to keep everything separated.

[NeuroticFish]

Wonder if they just have a bunch of cheap chromebooks that they use to keep everything separated.

It can be done easily with each user having his own browser (Chrome, FFox, Edge, Brave, Opera, ...) on the same machine
or, for clearer difference and avoiding surprises, with separate virtual machines installed for each.
That part is the least problem imho.

(However, I'm still shocked about these findings, since we don't talk here about the usual shitposters).