How big is the "CryptoYar" account farm?

[JollyGood]

CryptoYar
Publictalk792
Rustam Meraj
ThemePen

These are at least four of the known accounts that are operated by the account farmer.

All four accounts were used to enter the Pizza Day competition.  

The situation started to unravel for the CryptoYar account after he applied to become merit source and members began investigating his conduct in order to decide if they felt his application should be supported.

In that thread, he was connected with the Rustam Meraj and Publictalk792 accounts. Previously, the Rustam Meraj account was linked to the ThemePen account therefore the puppeteer entered at least four known accounts in the Pizza Day competition. Not only that, the CryptoYar account won $1500 after violating the competition rules of entry.

I aim to update the thread by the weekend if I can find more names to add to the account farm. In the interim, if other members can find anything that might add more names to the account farm they can simply post the information here.

What is important is that account farmers are never made merit source, I think we should all play our part in trying to stop them in their nefarious plans.

All four of the accounts have been tagged and their campaign managers have been advised via PM about the account farm.

I believe account farmers that cheat in competitions, campaigns, engage in merit abuse and other nefarious activity should not be rewarded. I hope of all of them are removed from their campaigns but ultimately the decisions have to be made by their respective campaign managers:

CryptoYar - Owlmail (icopress)
Publictalk792 - Roobet (Hhampuz)
Rustam Meraj - Rainbet (Hhampuz)
ThemePen - Rollbit (Hhampuz)

[ThemePen]

Just to clarify, please leave me out of this.
My only involvement has already been fully explained in that thread where I tagged.

Beyond that, I'm not part of this alleged account farm or any of the accusations being discussed here. Please refer to that thread before making assumptions.
Also, feel free to review my post history and merit history. They speak for themselves. I was in contact with Rustam Meraj, but I had no idea he was allegedly operating multiple accounts. That was my mistake in judgment, and I've already acknowledged it publicly. Please don't associate me with activities I had no knowledge of or involvement in.

[yahoo62278]

All four of the accounts have been tagged and their campaign managers have been advised via PM about the account farm.

I believe account farmers that cheat in competitions, campaigns, engage in merit abuse and other nefarious activity should not be rewarded. I hope of all of them are removed from their campaigns but ultimately the decisions have to be made by their respective campaign managers:

CryptoYar - Owlmail (icopress)
Publictalk792 - Roobet (Hhampuz)
Rustam Meraj - Rainbet (Hhampuz)
ThemePen - Rollbit (Hhampuz)

In the old days anyone with a red tag was not accepted to a campaign and if they got a red tag in the middle of a week they were removed without pay. I have accepted an account here n there as there are so many DT these days that tags feel almost like a trophy anymore.

I think we need to get back to making red tagged accounts mostly useless. There will be rare occasions where a tagged user is accepted, but it should be rare. No need to reward those that decided to go down the wrong path.

Good luck finding more alts.

Just to clarify, please leave me out of this.
My only involvement has already been fully explained in that thread where I tagged.

Beyond that, I'm not part of this alleged account farm or any of the accusations being discussed here. Please refer to the above thread before making assumptions.
Also, feel free to review my post history and merit history. They speak for themselves. I was in contact with Rustam Meraj, but I had no idea he was allegedly operating multiple accounts. That was my mistake in judgment, and I've already acknowledged it publicly. Please don't associate me with activities I had no knowledge of or involvement in.

Review my merit history as it speaks for its self may or may not be true in your case as when i take a look I feel like some of these local boards cheat in merit activities. Some help each other rank up quite fast. Just not the argument I would use if eyes are starting to look at me closely.

[lovesmayfamilis]

In the first topic, we were surprised many times by the silence of the suspected accounts. Everyone naturally understands that the longer the account is silent, and the more tension increases, the more carefully the accounts will be checked. Probably, the silence of these two pizza bakers is justified by the fact that their "tales" can reveal even more alts. I'm talking about @Publictalk792 and @Rustam Meraj.

Now the topic is open in "Reputation"; it would be more honest, guys, for you to respond and explain all the coincidences. You're unlikely to get by with just one tag from JollyGood.

And it's time to understand that the more you want to take on responsibilities on the forum, in particular the desire to become a merit source, the more carefully your accounts will be checked🧐.

The story of the bowls and pans is some kind of detective investigation🕵️‍♂️ that can and should be taken into account for other fans of cheating. You never know what you might stumble on. I'll say it a little rudely, I'm sorry, but "Shit, that is, lies always come to light."

[Rikafip]

Everyone naturally understands that the longer the account is silent, and the more tension increases, the more carefully the accounts will be checked.

The person who is in control of those two accounts (whether its CryptoYar or someone else) knows very well that those who try to defend themselves on the Reputation board usually just dig themselves in even deeper.

Imo, he is probably just trying to keep a low profile for as long as possible, hoping to weather the storm until some new forum drama pops up and the forum investigators turn their attention to someone else.

[hugeblack]

I discovered this story on the ALTT forum and we are now talking about spammer who manages 4 accounts here and 4 accounts on the ALTT forum, even someone with a full-time job cannot manage 8 accounts (or 160 weekly posts), so I think more accounts will be linked.

[Rikafip]

I discovered this story on the ALTT forum and we are now talking about spammer who manages 4 accounts here and 4 accounts on the ALTT forum, even someone with a full-time job cannot manage 8 accounts (or 160 weekly posts)

160 weekly posts equals to ~22 posts per day. If that's your full time job (if you "work" 8 hours per day, that makes it ~3 posts per hour), it seems very possible to me. Especially since those are not well thought posts but instead pure recycled garbage over and over again.
Add on that AI tools that can help you churn out posts even easier and faster, and one capable person might be able to handle even more than 8 accounts.

[ThemePen]

I discovered this story on the ALTT forum and we are now talking about spammer who manages 4 accounts here and 4 accounts on the ALTT forum, even someone with a full-time job cannot manage 8 accounts (or 160 weekly posts), so I think more accounts will be linked.

Where you saw these four accounts and why are you taking me in, in this case.

Can you please refer me to that thread where my account was attached on ALTT forum. I think you should make a research first.

And I am still saying I made a mistake here and I have clarified it.

That were three accounts which were attached so please tag to them.

I am moderator on Altcointalk and I am doing my job their honestly. And being moderator I know very well that not only I have to follow the rules but I have to enforce them too. So get me out from this all drama.

And regarding posting, I don't have capacity to manage four accounts. I have these, 1 is here and second is on Altcointalk and it takes my whole day.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Just to clarify, please leave me out of this.
My only involvement has already been fully explained in that thread where I tagged.

Beyond that, I'm not part of this alleged account farm or any of the accusations being discussed here.

I haven't red tagged you yet but I have been reviewing the former feedback and apart from that story about Rustam Meraj allegedlly giving you his password so you could post applications for campaigns on his behalf we have also this one:

I don't know which insights the OP got from Poll, but regarding to "conspicuous votes" for ThemePen (as far as i noticed he got all his 15 votes within the last 2 days) and some of his trust feedback (see picture below) i ask to investigate his application.

I looked into the IP logs, and most of his votes seem to be from legit users. I see only 3-5 votes for him which I'd classify as likely alts. (Always hard to say, though, in either direction.)

Edit: To be more clear, I don't mean 3-5 alts of ThemePen. Of voters for ThemePen, I identified 3 groups of voters with possible alts, like this:
    A and his alt B
        C and his alt D
    E and his alts F and G
The second group is lower confidence, and it may or may not also be the same as the first group. So that's 3-5 extra votes.

So, this would be the second time you are involved in shady business in forum contests.

[joker_josue]

Publictalk792
Rustam Meraj

In my opinion, and based on the analysis I've done, I would say that these two accounts belong to the same person.

I'll keep an eye out for more details.

[Ale88]

Publictalk792
Rustam Meraj

In my opinion, and based on the analysis I've done, I would say that these two accounts belong to the same person.

They both participated in the pizza contest using a frying pan with the same exact mark close to the handle, they are 100% the same person, there is no doubt about that.

[hosemary]

Just to clarify, please leave me out of this.

What do you have to say about this?
You quoted the application posted by Rustam Meraj to re-apply for a signature campaign, and then deleted your post.



https://bitlist.co/post/64926329

[CryptoYar]

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Welcome to the club.



1. IP issue already explained - similar IP because using Cable net and recent IP changes because now need VPN to access Altcointalk sometime

2. Plate issue
My plate is different then Publictalk792

3. Paper
Paper Issue explained

What else?

Yes tag those two account not me.

[JollyGood]

According to these two posts by nutildah, highly relevant information is available:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5335270.msg64932521#msg64932521
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5395857.msg62233024#msg62233024

The "NoorulHuda" and "gmjutt6" accounts were banned but ThemePen had sent them funds in the past. These could be an innocent transactions (as per the story he posted) however I checked the feedback I gave years ago and noted that more accounts were associated with them: NoorulHuda, NoorulHuda2, gmjutt6, idris123, aiyan786, heena121, Chemplon. (The NoorulHuda2 account was created in order to appeal the ban on the NoorulHuda account).

The fact that the puppeteer basically gave up on most of the tagged accounts at the time does not excuse if they were once upon a time being used as part of the group.