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Topic: Anything suspicious? (Read 377 times)

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October 14, 2023, 04:58:14 AM
#20
Do you see anything suspicious about this thread? Apparently, most of the users registered on the same day, almost exactly the same time. And they all choose to reply to this specific thread with some random "interesting, well done, useful, thank you" type unnecessary comment. Their usernames are also of similar pattern. It looked liked possible alt accounts.

If you look closely well, you will see that this kind of users are the ones that always go after bounties because the requirements for bounties post are lesser, most of them are doing this for them to be able to participate in such, but just as you have suspected, it's likely that they all belong to a single person and if so, such could be termed as spamming and post bursting as well using multiple accounts, i wonder what this forum would have turned to if these people were allowed with freedom of doing what they want.
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October 13, 2023, 10:41:46 PM
#19
The OP may be interested to read the Finding spam and scams by keyword thread and even become a contributor if he can establish repetitive phrases being used by the sock puppets.
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October 13, 2023, 05:31:13 PM
#18
Who gonna pay attention to random account that is made to lure investors into scam project and I don't anyone will like to interact with these newbies with their random comment. A reasonable investors can never get attracted with their community, let say someone like me or other reputable member can never be thrilled with any thread that is mostly commented by newbies which you and I knows that is not possible to lure reputable member Into. Other thing I noticed is that it may be a chilling account to promote a particular brands and project for the sake to get paid and risk investors to their shitcoin.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 04:44:18 PM
#17
I want to ask that sometimes we report these types of accounts but moderator didn't took any action so in this case these accounts should deserve negative?
Imho, there's not much sense to give them negatives because once you do, they just ditch those and start using new ones for thread bumping. I used to tag those sock puppet farms, but eventually I got bored of that whack-a-mole game so I rather report them to mods and ask for perma ban which often happens when account is brand new.


In Utopia weekly review bounty I found many accounts which created in same day and all accounts have the same posting style( Posted UTOPIA #POA in 4 other bounties thread to increase activity). The gang of these cheaters created more than 20 accounts to grab all reward. These accounts are abusing forum rules So there is anyway to report other than bounty manager reject them?
You should definitely report them to bounty manager and if you have time, you can create a topic and provide the evidence that those accounts are indeed connected and controlled by the same person so at least they might end up with negative tag.


From what I've seen, they usually just do hit-and-run jobs if it's for a specific purpose, and nobody ever knows who's behind any of these various accounts. 
Usual suspects are Vitor Services who I believe are responsible for majority of thread bumping/shilling here.  nutildah idenitified them first years ago and you could track their work across hundreds of ann threads in altcoin board.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 04:27:14 PM
#16
Suspicious?  Nah, it's just the typical alt account shitposting, thread-bumping sockpuppetry BS that's been going on in various sections for years now.  It's standard operating procedure for any new project, altcoin, or whatever to get noticed here.

Even if the moderator does not take immediate action against such users, you can monitor their behavior in the future, and if they continue with the same behavior, report their new posts to the moderator once more.
From what I've seen, they usually just do hit-and-run jobs if it's for a specific purpose, and nobody ever knows who's behind any of these various accounts.  Personally I wouldn't bother keeping an eye on anything; I'd just report one or two posts to the mods with a note that the thread is becoming a puppet museum.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 04:05:11 PM
#15
I want to ask that sometimes we report these types of accounts but moderator didn't took any action so in this case these accounts should deserve negative?

Even if the moderator does not take immediate action against such users, you can monitor their behavior in the future, and if they continue with the same behavior, report their new posts to the moderator once more. It is also a good idea to leave a neutral tag on their accounts with a reference to a post containing evidence, just like this one.

In Utopia weekly review bounty I found many accounts which created in same day and all accounts have the same posting style( Posted UTOPIA #POA in 4 other bounties thread to increase activity). The gang of these cheaters created more than 20 accounts to grab all reward. These accounts are abusing forum rules So there is anyway to report other than bounty manager reject them?

If you have some solid evidence that these are alt accounts, it is definitely a good reason to slap on a negative tag because that is an abuse of the bounty campaign rules.
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September 29, 2023, 09:32:50 AM
#14
What should be treated with these accounts If owner not delete these accounts.
I am sorry but I don't think I understand what you are asking me so can you please rephrase the question? And maybe even consider using Google translate.

pardon me, actually I used word " Owner" instead of "Moderator" which makes confusion for you. I want to ask that sometimes we report these types of accounts but moderator didn't took any action so in this case these accounts should deserve negative?

In Utopia weekly review bounty I found many accounts which created in same day and all accounts have the same posting style( Posted UTOPIA #POA in 4 other bounties thread to increase activity). The gang of these cheaters created more than 20 accounts to grab all reward. These accounts are abusing forum rules So there is anyway to report other than bounty manager reject them?
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September 29, 2023, 09:08:57 AM
#13
I think it's a clear initiative to make some thread visible bumps. For me, there is no suspicion but rather a direct accusation.

[I know having alt accounts are not a crime, but still I thought of reporting it as it looked like spam to me]
Forum rules consider it spam, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657
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1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads.
it's the 2nd level crime after plagiarism. You can report that thread and alts.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 09:05:19 AM
#12
I don't know how to resize. Give me an example with the BBcode including the size.
yes, @Cantsay has shown that.

Second way.
Same goal, different website.

You can do this by subtracting 250-150-100.
Example.
Code:
[img width=250] [/img]
Result:




So, are you interested in the account above, have you reported it, maybe that's what spammers can do, I'm sure they are Alt or a team involved in HarryPotterObamaPacMan8Inu, whether they are looking for prey or want to find investors for their meme project, the important thing is that you report it, so the mods will handle it.
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September 29, 2023, 09:02:44 AM
#11

I don't know how to resize. Give me an example with the BBcode including the size.

Alright, just add "width=" after the img tag and then add your desired sized, don't bother with the height once you set the width everything will auto align.

Code:
[img width=300]https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/09/29/P3SKZ.jpeg[/img]
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September 29, 2023, 08:52:32 AM
#10

Btw, Op if you don't mind please reduce the size of your image a little bit so that it won't delay the loading speed of this page.

I don't know how to resize. Give me an example with the BBcode including the size.

[Note: Thanks Cantsay and YOSHIE! I resized the image.]
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September 29, 2023, 08:05:23 AM
#9
Damn men, the name of the project alone is a joke no wonder they didn't get any response from the community and then decided to chat with themselves, like who the heck just sit down and decides that the name of their project will be "HarryPotterObamaPacman8Inu".

The funny thing about it is that they didn't even wait, the puppeteer didn't have any patience as he made all the post from his puppet account in less than 30 minutes.

Btw, Op if you don't mind please reduce the size of your image a little bit so that it won't delay the loading speed of this page.
hero member
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September 29, 2023, 08:02:37 AM
#8
Yes , worst try to bump the thread. Usually meme projects are advertised in such way in other social pages and projects manage contest for shilling. The OP of this thread also doing same method but it will not work here in this forum.
theymos made bumping changes on some boards which include Announcements (Altcoins) these accounts have zero merits and will not affect the topic's pumping.

My guess is to make ANN appear legitimate by giving false good replies that there are some users who have tried the service and it was good.
leaving a warning to alert those who do not know anything about the forum will be sufficient Or he may be a user who knows nothing about the forum and will notice that topic is always at the bottom no matter how hard he bumped it with newbie accounts.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 07:55:53 AM
#7
What should be treated with these accounts If owner not delete these accounts.
I am sorry but I don't think I understand what you are asking me so can you please rephrase the question? And maybe even consider using Google translate.
hero member
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September 29, 2023, 07:42:26 AM
#6
Yes , worst try to bump the thread. Usually meme projects are advertised in such way in other social pages and projects manage contest for shilling. The OP of this thread also doing same method but it will not work here in this forum.

And yeah, you should reports those oneliners and they will be deleted and accounts probably nuked as well.
What should be treated with these accounts If owner Moderator not delete these accounts. ?
I found one another thread where you will see more account then this with suspicious behavior.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 07:32:00 AM
#5
Yes it's, but for me it's not really worth to tag them because the thread is posted in a section where it's full of spam and scam. If I tag users in that thread, then I should tag 99% of users in Altcoins section.

Hopefully the moderator will consider to give temporary ban to these accounts.
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September 29, 2023, 07:27:45 AM
#4
Thanks for the heads up, I just notified them to do better next time. Lol.

They are copying my style, I guess I should stop posting my shilling resume. Unfortunately there are no copyrights for that.


What you see there is the textbook definition of lousy shilling with zero efforts put in to the work, for a long time I stopped going there to make fun of them, they are like mushroom.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 07:26:13 AM
#3
definitely alt accounts, probably even owned by the OP of that thread too. it's not the first time I've seen alt accounts being used to bump, shill or create conversations among themselves in a thread, you'll even see this happening on some of the ANN threads in the gambling board.
legendary
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September 29, 2023, 07:25:54 AM
#2
Its a classic thread bumping case, in which projects hire "marketing service" Or make accounts by themselves)  to fake the interest in order to attract investors. There are better and worse attempts and the one you shared definitely falls into the latter group. Since this marketing "technique" is completely useless, in a way scammers are scamming other scammers.

And yeah, you should reports those oneliners and they will be deleted and accounts probably nuked as well.
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September 29, 2023, 07:09:05 AM
#1
Do you see anything suspicious about this thread? Apparently, most of the users registered on the same day, almost exactly the same time. And they all choose to reply to this specific thread with some random "interesting, well done, useful, thank you" type unnecessary comment. Their usernames are also of similar pattern. It looked liked possible alt accounts.

[I know having alt accounts are not a crime, but still I thought of reporting it as it looked like spam to me]









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