5 connected Accounts - 1 Senior Member - 4 Full Members (Possible Merit Abuse)

[Nrcewker]

Possible Accounts Involved

1. Al-Ghifary
2. shendy
3. StreakW
4. bots1
5. guffie

Today, user Al-Ghifary created a thread in the Gambling section. After reviewing the thread, I noticed that all of the replies were made by the accounts listed above.

What caught my attention is that these accounts had been inactive for some time and suddenly became active in the same thread.

In addition, the other three accounts sent merit to Al-Ghifary shortly after participating in the thread.

Merit history of Al-Ghifary:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1116100


Registration Dates

• shendy — February 2017
• Al-Ghifary — August 2017
• bots1 — September 2017
• StreakW — October 2017
• guffie — Feburary 2017

All five accounts were registered within the same general time period.

While this alone is not conclusive proof that the accounts are connected, the coordinated activity, sudden reactivation of accounts, participation in the same thread, and continuos merit transfers to Al-Ghifary raise concerns about possible account connections and merit abuse.

The gambling site itself also appears questionable, particularly because it is using a .xyz domain, which prompted me to take a closer look and share this information for community review.

[Somegory]

You are up to something here for sure, however these proofs aren't enough to tag all the accounts with red trust, no rules is broken here unless they join the same signature campaign or similar, you did well already and I am sure that all eye will be on these accounts.

The merit side of thing looks suspicious but I doubt this is enough to give these accounts red trust.

[Majestic-milf]

What caught my attention is that these accounts had been inactive for some time and suddenly became active in the same thread.

In addition, the other three accounts sent merit to Al-Ghifary shortly after participating in the thread.

This is suspicious. I know that anyone is free to do with their merit however they see fit but this act will surely raise eyebrows because it's as though the person wants to distribute merit to the different accounts but had to comment first to make it look legit.

Merit history of Al-Ghifary:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1116100


Registration Dates

• shendy — February 2017
• Al-Ghifary — August 2017
• bots1 — September 2017
• StreakW — October 2017
• guffie — Feburary 2017

All five accounts were registered within the same general time period.

While this alone is not conclusive proof that the accounts are connected, the coordinated activity, sudden reactivation of accounts, participation in the same thread, and continuos merit transfers to Al-Ghifary raise concerns about possible account connections and merit abuse.

The gambling site itself also appears questionable, particularly because it is using a .xyz domain, which prompted me to take a closer look and share this information for community review.

Although it's not abnormal for such things to happen, but it's the fact that they traded merits within the same accounts that got registered within the same timeframe that will land them in trouble.