Topic: Another ANN bumping group+ Interesting merit transfers (Read 1144 times)

Thanks Rikafip! Great jobs for all parties involved in this operation!


Hehe yes, I meant WerSalit, not Pastrana. Most likely, the account was sold. The ex-owner looked like a normal user, involved into bringing benefit to the forum... Also, good observation with Pastrana. I also observed those 100 merits received for a single post in the anniversary contest. 38 were from Basorexia though but however, it was a great amount of merits earned back then. Maybe they wanted to use this account for rank up, for looking more serious, then gave up? Who knows...


Yes, indeed... There doesn't seem any way of connecting them, excepting for the names. But still looks a bit curious to me

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The problem is that so far mods didn't take action for the last reports I made (for Pastrana, 6eTxoBeH, WerSalit, Gucci Flip Flops, Vlone, camerali, Drugs?, Oprah). Only a few of them were handled. On the opposite side, the reports made for the previous group (IgorDV, Scrachit, kossvet, yurikkk, Bad Lightyear, Timothy Martinez, Sheesh, Virgil YNWA, Sarah Snyder, Zillakami, conceptinion, Fevy and kuzmich12) are almost entirelly handled (deleted). You can see that by looking at the posts of each profile: IgorDV has 17 posts, Scrachit - 32, kossvet - 0, yurikkk - 0, Bad Lightyear - 0, Timothy Martinez - 0, Sheesh - 0, Virgil YNWA - 0, Sarah Snyder - 0, Zillakami - 0, conceptinion - 34, Fevy - 9 and kuzmich12 - 0. I don't know why the reports for the second group are left unhandled so much... I hope the mods will delete also the remaining posts though.

Once again good job! Ucacoin thread has been completely cleaned as well, and for now bumpers gave up, no new posts in the last couple of days. Let's hope they give up now whole project has been busted.


I guess you mean WerSalit, Pastrana has been used for thread bumping right from the beginning, and later on used for 10th anniversary contest where he managed to amass decent amount of merit. Regarding WerSalit, you are right, he seemd like a legit user at the beginning, and then his posting behaviour changed. It coincides with the break he had from November 2018 and February 2019, when he woke up and changed the password. After that  he immediately started shilling with rest of his buddies  My guess is that account changed the owner.


Based on Kamilaz post history, basically impossible to prove any connection. No address, no social media used, Kamilaz wasn't part of thread bumping etc just relatively similar names.

Today I finally managed to find time to report all posting history of all these users. I had their accounts opened in different tabs since Friday, but I didn't have time until now. Interestingly, someone took the job ahead of me and reported a few posts of each account. I saw that as I refreshed the tabs before clicking on "Show the last posts of this person".

So... 3 hours later I finished reporting 761 posts of all these accounts, this being almost all their posts. The exceptions were 10-20 posts in total which were good posts and some which were written in local boards, which I couldn't see as I have these boards on ignore list.

Curiously, one of these users - pastrana - seemed to be a "normal" user in the past, prior heading to ANN bumping lol. If you look at his oldest posts you'll see some related to plagiarism investigations, merit abuse investigations, helping others with banned accounts, reporting a Legendary member for spam and so on. Unfortunately, he turned evil after a short while...

Also, an idea crossed my mind about one account mentioned by nutildah: Zillakami. Could it be that this Zillakami is connected to Kamilaz, an account banned after the Hack Forums invasion? Zillakami... Kamilaz... sound like inverting the second half of the name with the first half.


Great catch my dear cinephile! Flag supported!

Seems like they didn't just hired bumping accounts. After some  digging (as I usually do when there is similar project that hired bumpers), I found out that  they are also part of MLM scheme that sells some kind of magical beauty products, and we all know that in these scams average people loose money and top few get rich, as in all pyramid like schemes. Anyway, I made thread about then in scam accusation board, feel free to support the flag!

[SCAM] UCACOIN-Latest project of known MLM scheme "Verway"

Seven pages of trash for Ucacoin ann thread!
Based on what I have seen so far I gave them negative feedback for hiring bumping spammers.
Never hire anyone to write something in your topics.

Good find, I added Ucacoin to that list. Regarding accounts used, tagged them as well, even though I doubt that will stop them, since they freely used already tagged accounts, so they probably dont really care about that much. But well, it's worth trying, in the worst case scenario they will start using new accounts, as they usually do.


That guy is some piece of work, he made nice profit on this forum and all of this started with anniversary contest, which he exploited to the fullest. First through merit sale, and then he  he scammed bunch of people for some collectibles that he never delivered. Weird thing is that this guy still doesn't have any flags against him, while i thought he will get Type 2/Type 3 by now. Maybe at least Flag Type 1 should be raised, to warn newbies and guests?

Have no fear, the cleaner is here
Excepting ~10 posts, I reported all the posting history of these members mentioned by nutildah -- 541 posts. Mods are already working on my reports, as far as I see. As soon as I'll have time I'll start "working" also on the accounts above mentioned by Rikafip.

This farm is back, now spamming for a project called UCACOIN. I'm gonna go ahead and tag all of them. One tag wasn't enough to stop them but maybe 2 will be, who knows.

Here's a few recent additions to this particular farm, some of which have also commented in the IndexChain thread:

IgorDV
Scrachit
kossvet
yurikkk
Bad Lightyear
Timothy Martinez
Sheesh
Virgil YNWA
Sarah Snyder
Zillakami
conceptinion
Fevy
kuzmich12

Like the other merited accounts in this farm, most merit for this farm was obtained from Basorexia.

Yeah, I already mentioned this guy in my first post of this topic. All that merit he received has the same main source- Basorexia, either directly or through those alt accounts. All this started with bitcointalk anniversary contest, that gave them chance to get some easy merit, that they sold/used for alts later on.


Nice finding. Every time abusers complain, they just dig their hole a little bit deeper!

Seems like this guy also bought his merit, https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/aleksandrov-1305565

He is the author and a manager probably of [BOUNTY] [ICO] | CETAN - financial core of the cryptoworld, banking, debit card

All of the merits that he received came from negative trust users.
Here they are:
Oprah
6eTxoBeH
Basorexia
Klid

I just saw the thread that he created and it is a clear red flag for me.

I give you summarize why people can say you purchasing merit from Baxoresia

• Baxoresia activity is very suspicious and he also said if he's selling merit [1] [2]
• According to Baxoresia post history, he never post in both Indonesian local board or Russian local board... so this point is Baxoresia probably didn't understand both Indonesian dan Russian language
• Many member deserve more to get merit than you+Hokilucky92 because you're only creating low value post and repeating other user said. But why only you+Hokilucky92 get merit from Baxoresia?

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Maybe you think that proof is not strong and don't deserve to get red tag... then what about this case?


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It's very clear you're bounty cheater and deserve red tagged from DT member

True, there are several red flags, but just wanted to hear 2nd (and more experienced) opinion.

There is one more account that looked fishy but I didn't include him  for the same reason, AlexW333. After same digging, here is what i found so far, beside him being very active in Relictum thread:
1. Out of  3 merits sent so far, 2 were to now banned account Nikolyovin for post nr. 1 and post nr. 2
2. This is where things get interesting. He sent 1 merit to coll3 that looks like his alt account. Same address used
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Same twitter account
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On top of that, they are in the same bounty, Relictum.
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It is interesting to see that all those  tagged accounts stopped with activity for now, but in PIVX thread they decided to make fresh account, and continue with business as usual
SamoroDev
Herbanitos
NederlandMen
Since they are fresh accounts made just for one purpose- spamming in PIVX thread, is it good enough reason to get them nuked?

Because you're not, that's why not. You're just another shitposting spammer for hire with a hacked account.

You decided to reply to this thread with this account because it had the weakest link of evidence that you were working as a professional spammer. Well let's solidify the evidence a bit.

You were part of the IATOKENS bounty with some other spammers mentioned above:

Chesterjems
tttuida
astrologer123

There's at least one other from that campaign I noticed that wasn't included in the list, I'm adding them now:

gunbars (Relictum Pro, INDEX Chain)

Was there a Telegram group or other platform conducting an off-forum bounty that pays per post on Bitcointalk? That's the only other explanation I can imagine, which is still the equivalent of being a paid spammer.

Exactly. Why not. What the hell do you climb into someone else's life?

The only thing you've done since your account "woke up" this time around is post spam for Relictum. Your one merit was obtained from a banned account who also gave merits to rank up several other farmed accounts, and you have already been mentioned as possibly being part of an account farm in 2 other threads:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52721107
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.41961118

But let me guess, you're the original owner of your 2011 account. You just learned nothing over the last 9 years and are now genuinely interested in low-quality shitcoin projects.

What the hell? Why am I tagged? I do not belong to any group of spammers. Who gave you the right to just tagged accounts based solely on your guesses?

Great job, thanks for taking the initiative! I am going to set about tagging them as well.


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I'm 90% sure they are, and seeing as how the account was created in 2011, its definitely a hacked account anyway.

Nice catch, looks like he got banned  https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?id=2756145



Since I have some time on my hands, I started working on that list. I focused mostly on those that were/are active in MASS, Relictum, and recently started PIVX thread. Some accounts are previosuly tagged, so I didn't include those, but i can add here as well if needed.


Chesterjems Jr Member, active in Relictum, IndexChain, MASS
tttuida Jr Member, active in Relictum and IndexChain
Gringofale Jr member, active in Relictum, MASS, PIVX, IndexChain, Crybet
bitcok Member, active in Relictum, MASS, IndexChain
CriptonMember Jr Member, active in Relictum, MASS, IndexChain
Enemi42Jef Jr Member, active in Relictum, MASS, PIVX, IndexChain
astrologer123 Jr Member active in Relictum, MASS, IndexChain
nicwenzel Jr member active in MASS, relictum, IndexChain, Crybet
Cristianvilil Jr member, active in Relictum, MASS, IndexChain, Crybet
ekopcie Jr Member, active in Relictum, MASS, IndexChain, Crybet
armack18 Jr Member, active in Relictum ( I am not 100% sure that this guy is part of bumping group)
klontbiter Jr Member, active in Relictum, MASS, PIVX, IndexChain
Listratennt Newbie, active in MASS, PIVX
Cremangravi Newbie, active in MASS, PIVX
Samorodnf Newbie, active in MASS, PIVX
GruHabiiml Newbie, active in MASS, PIVX
HermanFry Newbie, active in MASS, PIVX
Meniksl0 Newbie, active in PIVX


There is also merit share between some of those accounts, that all starts from BitmarkInvest , who was already tagged for merit abuse. This is how it goes:

• BitmarkInvest sends 2 merit to Gringofale, and then he sends 1 to another name on the list, Enemi42Jef.
• BitmarkInvest sends 2 merit to CriptonMember for shill post in Crybet ANN, and then he sends 1 to  Cristianvilil.
• BitmarkInvest sends 2 merit to ekopcie. Naturally, he sends 1 to their buddy,  Klontbiter

I saw this guy marketing a spamming service:


He uses the Telegram name @Mixa_nnbb, same as banned users MelnikBitok and Smart man (as pointed out by KTChampions). I reported him for ban evasion, I would be appreciative if you guys could do the same as these types of services are dumb and create spam for the forum.

The reason why this is relevant is because this user has also been posting in the Relictum Pro thread with spammy one-liners along with some of the other accounts mentioned in this thread. They are now spamming for another thread as well:

[MASS] Decentralized HARD DRIVE mining cryptocurrency

This is another giant bumping service (or perhaps an extension of the first one) with dozens of accounts waiting to be tagged. Later I will catalog them all here, am a bit busy now, but wanted to leave this as a reminder to myself. Of course you guys can get started listing them here if you want.

Yes, really suspicious activity. I did a little investigation today, and there’s also a Piskaev account.