Scammer advertising by pretending to look for an exchange

[LoyceV]

I found 3 Newbies with the same tactic: PaulDrawsArt, chipfranks and Entire-Marketing (all tagged red by me).
They've opened a total of 5 topics (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) asking which exchange to use. A bit later, they edit the post to say it's solved and add a link to a brand new and no doubt scam exchange:

I've reported them. Update: they're Nuked. We need edit-tracking to catch them all.

[ABCbits]

We need edit-tracking to catch them all.

Bitlist.co does that, but it's far from perfect since Bitcointalk doesn't provide API to return list of recently edited post/thread. They managed to caught 3 of 5 edit by those user, see
https://bitlist.co/post/66204029/versions
https://bitlist.co/post/66344660/versions
https://bitlist.co/post/66347844/versions

Anyway, it's also common hidden SEO spam tactic to avoid moderation. They add the link some time (usually between few hours to few days) after creating the post to reduce chance their SEO spam getting deleted.

[Shishir99]

Seems like this type of scamming practice is increasing these days. We have just seen a similar scam attempt via a poll, and you are aware of it as well. I think I have seen a thread before where the newbie guy asks some questions, and later they reply to that thread using their alternative account so they can get merits. It seems such tricks are working for them, which is why similar cases keep appearing.

Bitlist.co does that, but it's far from perfect since Bitcointalk doesn't provide API to return list of recently edited post/thread. They managed to caught 3 of 5 edit by those user, see

This was a nice addition. However, I didn't know that it does not always work. Any idea why the other two didn't worked?

[LoyceV]

Any idea why the other two didn't worked?

The scraper hasn't revisited the posts yet.

[ABCbits]

Any idea why the other two didn't worked?

The scraper hasn't revisited the posts yet.

For more context, check https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5534972.msg65789449#msg65789449 and next 12 reply.

[Zwei]

looks like you missed this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5572824.0

and add these 4 accounts as well to the list of the accounts shilling for that scam exchange, FeraLc, akmal1984, ihavenoidea24 and Jack395895.

[KingsDen]

looks like you missed this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5572824.0

and add these 4 accounts as well to the list of the accounts shilling for that scam exchange, FeraLc, akmal1984, ihavenoidea24 and Jack395895.

But why are they so dumb that they use the same format repeatedly for different accounts?

Have you reported this so that he shares same fate with his colleagues.

[BitMaxz]

It looks like I saw some of them a few months ago. They make a thread and then edit the thread, but the difference is it takes weeks or a month before they edit the thread; they make sure their thread is buried by many threads before they edit the thread and add a suspicious link.
I reported a few of them and am hoping to delete the whole thread because it's obvious they promote something using this strategy that no one could easily notice until you manually search and find their thread.