Some Accounts That Have Engaged In Suspicious Activity

[JollyGood]

As the barometer for linking accounts is getting higher and hence more difficult, there has to be an element of circumstantial evidence to consider on occasion rather than concrete evidence that some might require before either taking action or supporting the action other people take. Account farmers are becoming better at leaving less clues to track.

For one reason or another, the following accounts seem suspicious. Most of them exchanged some merits with accounts that are already tagged as suspicious as well as those accounts that most of us would not even consider giving a single merit to. Without delving too deeply, I made a decision to post their names in order to allows other members and those named to post their views. If they are enrolled in campaigns, the name of the campaign and campaign manager are listed alongside.

I anticipate some will post to protest their innocence whereas others will probably try to avoid posting through fear of their other farmed accounts being noticed. I also anticipate some respected and trusted members that could post a defence for one or more the accounts (it is possible), however over the next couple of days I will add appropriate trust where I deem it is valid and would be willing to edit any tags if I am pointed out to be wrong/probably wrong. As you might have noticed, some of the accounts have already been tagged.

This list is another part in the compilation of dubious accounts that are not too difficult to find. The first part was the list of 13 accounts mentioned in the link. In this list, many (not all) of the accounts are connected by one country local board but that does not justify all of the merits distributed.

Abraham72 N/A
Alone055 SWC Poker / AB de Royse777
As-Soon-As Rainbet / Hhampuz
Bd officer Rainbet / Hhampuz
beveryu778 Rainbet / Hhampuz
Bitcoin_people Rainbet / Hhampuz
BTC FutureKing Rainbet / Hhampuz
Doll2233 N/A
HelliumZ Rollbit / Hhampuz
Just Common N/A
kanftka N/A
LDL Rainbet / Hhampuz
laspol65 Rollbit / Hhampuz
Minor Miner 2UP / Little Mouse
MusaPk Rainbet / Hhampuz
Popkon6 Rainbet / Hhampuz
Qhunman Rainbet / Hhampuz
Rustam Meraj Rainbet / Hhampuz
ThemePen Rollbit / Hhampuz
Zaka1221 Rainbet / Hhampuz


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All of the accounts were sent the following PM:

Hello to the following accounts:

"Abraham72", "Alone055", "As-Soon-As", "Bd officer", "beveryu778", "Bitcoin_people", "BTC FutureKing", "Doll2233", "HelliumZ", "Just Common", "kanftka", "LDL", "laspol65", "Minor Miner", "MusaPk", "Popkon6", "Qhunman", "Rustam Meraj", "ThemePen", "Zaka1221"

I created a thread about your accounts. When you have time kindly post there to express your views:

Some Accounts That Have Engaged In Suspicious Activity

Kind Regards

[inspace]

Both guys are in your list

➥ LDL's vote matches ThemePen's vote, (both votes will be counted as this is a one-off case).

[babo]

As the barometer for linking accounts is getting higher and hence more difficult, there has to be an element of circumstantial evidence to consider on occasion rather than concrete evidence that some might require before either taking action or supporting the action other people take.
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crazy, thanks for your investigation of course
as many as 13 connected accounts, perhaps the largest farm ever discovered?

I've been looking at that local board for months and there was something strange about it.
I didn't understand how some new accounts could accumulate even 300 merits in 120 days, it was just insane!

[Qhunman]

All of the accounts were sent the following PM:

Hello to the following accounts:

"Abraham72", "Alone055", "As-Soon-As", "Bd officer", "beveryu778", "Bitcoin_people", "BTC FutureKing", "Doll2233", "HelliumZ", "Just Common", "kanftka", "LDL", "laspol65", "Minor Miner", "MusaPk", "Popkon6", "Qhunman", "Rustam Meraj", "ThemePen", "Zaka1221"

I created a thread about your accounts. When you have time kindly post there to express your views:

Some Accounts That Have Engaged In Suspicious Activity

Kind Regards

I noticed your PM on my Dashboard, I was surprise when I saw my profile included in your list of suspicions accounts. May I know why I was added to this lists? I need clarification Sir.

[JollyGood]

Both guys are in your list

➥ LDL's vote matches ThemePen's vote, (both votes will be counted as this is a one-off case).

Regarding those two accounts, there are several things to take in to consideration including one accidentally posting using the credentials of the other. There is an element of the infamous banned industrial sized account farmer and compulsive liar naim027 to think about. Also, the post that exposed one account was operating the topman21 scammer account.

crazy, thanks for your investigation of course
as many as 13 connected accounts, perhaps the largest farm ever discovered?

I've been looking at that local board for months and there was something strange about it.
I didn't understand how some new accounts could accumulate even 300 merits in 120 days, it was just insane!

In some cases in the past, merit used to be rotated on an industrial scale because they need it to rank up accounts in order to enroll in campaigns. Some Full Member campaigns pay $70-$75 per week therefore reaching 100 merits does suffice for them in reaching their goals. If they try to rank up faster to Hero/Legendary rank, they will probably get caught therefore do not want to take chances.

The list of accounts in this thread is intended to invite conversation and debate, to discuss how these accounts have been operating and what can be done to remove suspicion from those that might deserve the benefit of any doubt and to discuss how to confront any account that conducts in nefarious activities.

I noticed your PM on my Dashboard, I was surprise when I saw my profile included in your list of suspicions accounts. May I know why I was added to this lists? I need clarification Sir.

Anybody reading your first post could come to the conclusion that it was not written by a newbie to the forum. The account that posted it was certainly a newbie but your post history suggests the person posting using the newbie account is not new to the forum at all.

How many accounts do you operate in the forum? I am merely curious.

[jg_btc]

Anybody reading your first post could come to the conclusion that it was not written by a newbie to the

New to this forum but not with English or common sense.


Anybody else feels it is appropriate to include campaign managers in this list?

Without delving too deeply

Or with zero delving? Too much of rushing up in building up your reputation?

Most of them exchanged some merits with accounts that are already tagged as suspicious as well as those accounts that most of us would not even consider giving a single merit to.

Only very few puppets like you, do merit based on account and not everyone. Most do merit based on content and context of the post.

You must explain your expertise level in local languages before accusing anything happening in local boards.

I also anticipate some respected and trusted members that could post a defence for one or more the accounts

I am not seeing any valid point you are adding here or anywhere else... too centric on merits or something else?

I made a decision to post their names in order to allows other members and those named to post their views

So, your contribution is just listing?



Why not everyone or at least above listed accounts to wait until OP puts something on table convincingly?

[ThemePen]

I have explained everything in this thread what happened if you bringing it up again my reply is still same.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5335270.msg64934090#msg64934090

[lovesmayfamilis]

Anybody reading your first post could come to the conclusion that it was not written by a newbie to the forum. The account that posted it was certainly a newbie but your post history suggests the person posting using the newbie account is not new to the forum at all.

How many accounts do you operate in the forum? I am merely curious.

He's certainly not a newbie. But if you track similar activity, I don't think you can catch all the farmers. Especially not by asking them how many accounts they have.
I'm sure there's some kind of agreement in the Nigerian section about sending merits in a chain. And anyone who gives merits within a minute or less of each other can be considered a farmer. I don't think it's possible to quickly read messages, especially old ones. If you look closely at the merits sent, they are given for posts more than a month old. This means there's a targeted exchange going on. Merits are sent in pairs or more, so the recipient has the opportunity to send more.
If your goal is to catch these scoundrels, I think you could add at least half, if not all, of their local section to the list.