Coincidence or possible connections between accounts?!

[hugeblack]

I don’t know Hazink in person, but I have had a few deals off this forum with him, and I did not give him a loan either, but I also believe we might have used the same service here.

Do you usually conduct such deals, or do you have any announcement or proof of any contact with @Hazink? If there is any proof, that would be sufficient.

[Orpichukwu]

I don’t know Hazink in person, but I have had a few deals off this forum with him, and I did not give him a loan either, but I also believe we might have used the same service here.

Do you usually conduct such deals, or do you have any announcement or proof of any contact with @Hazink? If there is any proof, that would be sufficient.

I said I had few deals with Hazink off the forum which don’t have anything to do with the mentioned address here; if there is any evidence to present, it will be a WhatsApp chat where I have sent him a few USDT to his Bybit and where he sent me money to my naira account (which contains personal information). Aside from this, I don’t have any other proof of connection with him.

[The Cryptovator]

Your thoughts are good, but based on that, I don’t want to leave them negative feedback unless there is solid proof of abuse. Probably I would leave them to take advantage of doubt. But remember, criminals often leave a footprint, and someday they will be discovered. Then definitely they have to suffer.

Even if there are known alts, if they don’t abuse the forum system or campaign, then it’s not a crime. Anyone would have multiple accounts, but not for abuse. I will advise you not to raise allegations based on this theme. More than three million users are here, so a few would register at the same time and wake up at the same time. Let them be until caught.

[jahead]

[...] then out of curiosity, what technology stack did you use for this tool?..

Nothing really special, to be honest.  It runs on plain php with a mysql-database, no framework. The front end is just Bootstrap.

The interesting part is not really the stack, it is the data handling. A cron job collects post data in small batches so the forum never sees a burst of requests, (better then the open-source GitHub stuff) and everything gets cached locally. On top of that sit the checks, the "alt-account-detection", which compares posting times, shared threads, activity gaps and payout addresses and some stuff more etc... For the wallet-side it talks to public blockchain APIs. That's it.

Most of the work went into the rules and the edge cases, not the technology.   

[lovesmayfamilis]

On top of that sit the checks, the "alt-account-detection", which compares posting times, shared threads, activity gaps and payout addresses and some stuff more etc... For the wallet-side it talks to public blockchain APIs. That's it.

Most of the work went into the rules and the edge cases, not the technology.   

I was just thinking, what would someone with many accounts do after reading your topic? I think they would immediately change their strategy. You pointed out a few overlapping points, and it's very easy to change them. In the past, alternative accounts were registered on the same day, changed their passwords on the same day, and woke up at the same time, not to mention common transactions. Nowadays, such mistakes are made by accident, due to inattention, but rarely out of ignorance.
Don't take this the wrong way, but it's better not to show them your observations, as I'm sure this section is among the favorites for reading and monitoring by these farm owners.

[jahead]

I was just thinking, what would someone with many accounts do after reading your topic? I think they would immediately change their strategy. You pointed out a few overlapping points, and it's very easy to change them.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but it's better not to show them your observations, as I'm sure this section is among the favorites for reading and monitoring by these farm owners.

I really hear you. And yes, I totally get your point. But honestly, even without my tool, I could easily name 20 to 25 "user"/farmed accounts that belong to a farm (just in the "Rainbet"-campaign) - just by looking at their posts.  These multi-accounts arent even trying to hide their behaviour.
The facts from the tool that I mentioned are common knowledge, nothing new. Even the dumbest farmer knows about them. Sure, there are some things they cant change, but if they do try to fix them, its going to cost them a lot of extra effort and specially time and that alone makes me happy.

We also agree that our current findings are just clues and/or maybe could all be ""coincidences"". Nobody gets accused based only on this, but at best, it can support our arguments. And I still think we have a much bigger problem, Im still convinced that a few farms are fully automated with bots. THAT is the problem we need to prove, call out, and tackle. When money is involved, people get endlessly creative...