The Collapse of the Bitcoin Generator Bot

[bachel]

First off I would like to say master-p and I were just the reviewers for this and we were given vouch copies ONLY to test this service. 

Yesterday I had noticed that a lot of my accounts went offline (I believe I was the first to experience this).  All the proxies I was using were being banned.  At first I had thought it was the the fact I was using safe-mail.net for all my emails (which could of been a trigger along with the ref links), but later on I had noticed my proxies were actually banned.  I had immediately alerted master-p and he chimed in stating all his accounts were still functioning, but during the night I had received notification via pm that his accounts were also shut down.  Another user Wafflemaster has now suffered the same fate as well as 805miner.

I want to be very clear that master-p and I have NO involvement other than giving out the reviews of the bot we had received.  We are both very aware a lot of users had purchased this bot and are now probably out a decent amount of money and yes it sucks.

I don't think or feel this was an actual scam (although it does appear like it right now).  What I do feel is that the site operators caught on and made a lot of changes.  Now for rich's absence on skype and here as well as locking the thread I can't comment on. 

I am 99% sure now that it was a scam because I paid him on Tuesday and since then no more communication he didn't even install the bot

The Only thing that speaks for him is that he didnt clean out his wallet yet

[superiorus]

My accounts (IP) are banned too

@WaffleMaster  , @master-P, @damiano :   did you changed your proxy's ?  How is working ? The accounts are banned , or just the IP's ?

[Fraxinus]

Hmm,he hasn't shown up yet,I don't know what to think.

[master-P]

My accounts (IP) are banned too

@WaffleMaster  , @master-P, @damiano :   did you changed your proxy's ?  How is working ? The accounts are banned , or just the IP's ?

In my case my accounts seem to be banned, the majority of them at least. When I try to log in manually it simply says wrong password, so I assumed they're banned. I haven't tried with new proxies yet. I found out about 20 or so of my accounts are still in tact, but the bot just cant seem to login to them for some reason. Hopefully Rich can help shed some light on this, perhaps it's a glitch in the bot's macro script?

[Berau]

Wow. Rich always has been so helpful and active. It does sound like it's not rich's fault, although he locked the thread pretty quickly and you noted he's not on Skype anymore although he said he would offer support.

Maybe contact him through email? Worth a try. I've got his email.

[Berau]

Also I realised he was just on 3 hours ago.

So he is still monitoring bitcoin talk but just not responding.

I think we all believed him too much this time just because he has provided information and did some explaining and had some support for the first few days. We should learn a lesson from that.

[FuckIdolPlus]

It's actually not his fault that the proxies are banned. You people need some virgin proxies, so that'll add up to the cost but at the backend, nothing has actually changed. So blaming him for the issues is not correct but the part where he comes online, and doesn't respond is totally his fault.
The only thing in his favour is that he has not used up the money in his wallet yet but that's maybe his laziness, who knows.
Best of luck people, hope everything turns out great because 1.5BTC for an iMacro script was already a large sum and now this happened.

[ajw7989]

My main concern and what stopped me from purchasing this script is how easy it would be to block it. Changing the faucet just slightly would cause a macro script to stop working. The video showing the bot working is one of the biggest faults since the owners (who we assume use btctalk) can watch the video and easily find the bot patterns (range in pause delays, repetition, etc). Hopefully he provides good support and will provide updates to the macros.

[FuckIdolPlus]

My main concern and what stopped me from purchasing this script is how easy it would be to block it. Changing the faucet just slightly would cause a macro script to stop working. The video showing the bot working is one of the biggest faults since the owners (who we assume use btctalk) can watch the video and easily find the bot patterns (range in pause delays, repetition, etc). Hopefully he provides good support and will provide updates to the macros.

Updating the macroscript is very easy. Changing the delay pattern can only temporarily stop the bot from working if this is the case. Same goes for banning proxies. A person who is trying to earn from this script will obviously invest in some "virgin" proxies as some people call them.
The only thing good about the script was the DBM and the involvement of captcha solving in the script. Other than that, it would take only 4-5 mintues to make the script.

[fast2fix]

My accounts (IP) are banned too

@WaffleMaster  , @master-P, @damiano :   did you changed your proxy's ?  How is working ? The accounts are banned , or just the IP's ?

In my case my accounts seem to be banned, the majority of them at least. When I try to log in manually it simply says wrong password, so I assumed they're banned. I haven't tried with new proxies yet. I found out about 20 or so of my accounts are still in tact, but the bot just cant seem to login to them for some reason. Hopefully Rich can help shed some light on this, perhaps it's a glitch in the bot's macro script?

trying with other proxies wouldn't help. if you create new account with those proxies they will be banned too.. they're banning it coz they don't earn anything from those proxy visits. so this method has been patched now. 

[alani123]

What this bot? Never heard of it.

[FuckIdolPlus]

My accounts (IP) are banned too

@WaffleMaster  , @master-P, @damiano :   did you changed your proxy's ?  How is working ? The accounts are banned , or just the IP's ?

In my case my accounts seem to be banned, the majority of them at least. When I try to log in manually it simply says wrong password, so I assumed they're banned. I haven't tried with new proxies yet. I found out about 20 or so of my accounts are still in tact, but the bot just cant seem to login to them for some reason. Hopefully Rich can help shed some light on this, perhaps it's a glitch in the bot's macro script?

trying with other proxies wouldn't help. if you create new account with those proxies they will be banned too.. they're banning it coz they don't earn anything from those proxy visits. so this method has been patched now. 

They can't tell which accounts are running the bot and which aren't. The "method" is just a script and not a bug in their system. They can only ban proxies and can't fix anything since there is nothing to be fixed.

[FuckIdolPlus]

What this bot? Never heard of it.

It's a macro script to drain faucets and the owner of the script sold around 11 BTC worth of script.

[superiorus]

My accounts (IP) are banned too

@WaffleMaster  , @master-P, @damiano :   did you changed your proxy's ?  How is working ? The accounts are banned , or just the IP's ?

In my case my accounts seem to be banned, the majority of them at least. When I try to log in manually it simply says wrong password, so I assumed they're banned. I haven't tried with new proxies yet. I found out about 20 or so of my accounts are still in tact, but the bot just cant seem to login to them for some reason. Hopefully Rich can help shed some light on this, perhaps it's a glitch in the bot's macro script?

trying with other proxies wouldn't help. if you create new account with those proxies they will be banned too.. they're banning it coz they don't earn anything from those proxy visits. so this method has been patched now. 

From what I see , my accounts are not banned , just the IP is blocked. I get this message :

This IP address has been blocked due to abuse. You can get a new IP by restarting your router.

So I think : If I change the IP of the accounts with a new proxy ... maybe ... is working

[FuckIdolPlus]

My accounts (IP) are banned too

@WaffleMaster  , @master-P, @damiano :   did you changed your proxy's ?  How is working ? The accounts are banned , or just the IP's ?

In my case my accounts seem to be banned, the majority of them at least. When I try to log in manually it simply says wrong password, so I assumed they're banned. I haven't tried with new proxies yet. I found out about 20 or so of my accounts are still in tact, but the bot just cant seem to login to them for some reason. Hopefully Rich can help shed some light on this, perhaps it's a glitch in the bot's macro script?

trying with other proxies wouldn't help. if you create new account with those proxies they will be banned too.. they're banning it coz they don't earn anything from those proxy visits. so this method has been patched now. 

From what I see , my accounts are not banned , just the IP is blocked. I get this message :

This IP address has been blocked due to abuse. You can get a new IP by restarting your router.

So I think : If I change the IP of the accounts with a new proxy ... maybe ... is working

Some have reported that their accounts are banned.

[Berau]

Last Active:   Today at 04:11:11 PM

Don't you guys think it's weird how right after rich stops selling the bot you all get banned? He again was active just about 5-6 hours ago, he's active but not replying.
Maybe rich even owns the proxies he recommends to you.

[bachel]

Last Active:   Today at 04:11:11 PM

Don't you guys think it's weird how right after rich stops selling the bot you all get banned? He again was active just about 5-6 hours ago, he's active but not replying.
Maybe rich even owns the proxies he recommends to you.

He also took of with coins at least with mine

[networthsigns]

What this bot? Never heard of it.

It's a macro script to drain faucets and the owner of the script sold around 11 BTC worth of script.

Nice bot i like the idea of draining the faucets who pay the peanuts like slave labor, also he done ok with that script didn't he. Shame i never see it or i would have probably brought one as well How much was the charge?

[Lorenzo]

"Bitcoin generator bot" sounds like a total scam, have fun with your virus's!

"Bitcoin generator bot" sounds like a total scam, have fun with your virus's!

I'm pretty sure the generator was that there were multiple accounts on separate proxies being able to click on ads over and over. That's why it was a generator.

"Bitcoin generator bot" sounds like a total scam, have fun with your virus's!

Please refrain from posting here if you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Clearly you're just posting to boost your post count for your sig campaign earnings.

The bot did not contain any viruses or anything, not to mention it was designed to be set up on a completely remote machine, a VPS.

I would like to ask if my post is what the script did. If not, I would also like to ask what it actually did do.

What this bot? Never heard of it.

For all those who don't know what this bot does, here is the link to the main thread (now locked):

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=968021

Basically, it was a bot that would use multiple accounts and proxies to collect free coins from the faucets Freebitco.in and Freedoge.co.in. The owner of those sites is wetsuit and he posts here on the forums so it's likely that he found out. I'm not sure how exactly the bots were discovered and blocked but it seems that people who bought the bot were using the same proxy servers so it was easy to identify them.

EDIT: Just a guess but it could also be possible that the site owner purchased the bot himself, analyzed its behavior, and then blocked it.

What this bot? Never heard of it.

It's a macro script to drain faucets and the owner of the script sold around 11 BTC worth of script.

Nice bot i like the idea of draining the faucets who pay the peanuts like slave labor, also he done ok with that script didn't he. Shame i never see it or i would have probably brought one as well How much was the charge?

1.49 BTC it seems.

[Berau]

What this bot? Never heard of it.

It's a macro script to drain faucets and the owner of the script sold around 11 BTC worth of script.

Nice bot i like the idea of draining the faucets who pay the peanuts like slave labor, also he done ok with that script didn't he. Shame i never see it or i would have probably brought one as well How much was the charge?

It was originally 1.49 but it seems most people bought it when it was BTC0.49(discounted).

I personally think it was a pretty stupid scam because most people still owes rich BTC1 each. If he stayed legit, then anything could happen