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Amazing the number of dormant accounts that never ever posted in BITCOINTALK.ORG that have come alive so that they can get Ripples. Look for any user with "JR.Member" and see how many post they have done. These accounts were created years ago and never had a single post until after the giveaway.
Almost half of the giveaway addresses on page 58 are from 2011 and never had a posting until today.
This approach to a giveaway is falling apart due to this abuse. Also results in a ton of spam postings.
An example: (easy to find)
RaducuIulianu
Registered Date: June 16, 2011, 09:23:04 AM
#Post: 6 (All on March 1st)
Ripple Account: rEiUFmQbeEJKmHdSTuCTfBwUAck6A8jfT5
Immediately moved to another account: rEiUFmQbeEJKmHdSTuCTfBwUAck6A8jfT5 which has a ton of 40K transfers to it.
Almost half of the giveaway addresses on page 58 are from 2011 and never had a posting until today.
This approach to a giveaway is falling apart due to this abuse. Also results in a ton of spam postings.
An example: (easy to find)
RaducuIulianu
Registered Date: June 16, 2011, 09:23:04 AM
#Post: 6 (All on March 1st)
Ripple Account: rEiUFmQbeEJKmHdSTuCTfBwUAck6A8jfT5
Immediately moved to another account: rEiUFmQbeEJKmHdSTuCTfBwUAck6A8jfT5 which has a ton of 40K transfers to it.
What the...? This means Bitcointalk is either compromised or one of its admins got really low.
Maybe this has to do with the old hack that leaked some passwords and attacker has access to old accounts now?
This guy just gathers money from all acounts into this one:
raRuz7se7tqNQJECUWjJdqSnEAR3F2PgcK
and then caches them out to BTC via Bitstamp.
Anyway, I think this fraud has to stop. Both OpenCoin and Bitcointalk guys should do something about it!
Ripple has enough negative attitude towards it without such fraudulent, shady affairs.
EDIT:
Sorry, the original post is 1.5 months old, didn't notice the date
so I guess it's not that urgent.But still - was anything done about that? Did you try to figure out who the bad guy is?