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.

[AakZaki]

A research of mine, take a look at the one I showed below:

Two of guffie's alt accounts:

• bots1
  
• shendy
  

See this thread.
Best site to stake USDC - or is there "liquid staking" for USDC like rocketpool?

bots1 created the topic with the same writing style as guffie's topic. bots1 also did the same thing as guffie. He created a poll including ChaserFi(dot)com, a website that has been created only 4 days ago.
Shendy who received 4 merit from guffie posted the first reply in bots1's topic. According to bitlist.co, Shendy first shared a link to chaser(dot)finance and after the website was taken down, he changed the link to chaserfinance(dot)com. That new website was taken down too and then Shendy changed the link to chaserfi(dot)com.

shendy
bots1
guffie

The three accounts above have been given RedTrust for being a Scam promoter, and now Al-Ghifary is opening ANN for a new gambling site, then Al-Ghifary account has only been active since 6 years ago. This is really suspicious, it is very likely that the site will be scammed as well because the promoter is a person who has been used to being a scam promoter.

According to the bitlist of all accounts are recorded as Indonesian citizens, I myself as an Indonesian citizen am not sure that the gambling site will last long, because the manager is someone who has no experience in that field. Instead, I suspect that the gambling site belongs to itself for the purpose of the scam.

After all, this is the first time I saw ANN in self-moderated, at first I wanted to criticize it because I saw that the thread was moderated by self and I undid my intentions.


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So everyone, please be careful of the promoted sites

[Awaklara]

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.

If you look more closely, there's a history of password changes at the same time for all those accounts.

shendy
guffie
Al-Ghifary
StreakW 
bots1 

There is indeed something strange, accounts that haven't been active for a long time suddenly start making threads about certain sites. 
I’m sure the accounts mentioned are connected, and there’s a high chance they’re controlled by the same person. And now they’re being used to support a company that should be watched.