Topic: [LIST] ANN threads that are using bumping services - page 12. (Read 7377 times)

Guess nobody loves me enough to offer me BTC to hit the bump button.
But, seriously you are correct in the fact that there are people here with a high enough rating that have good bump power who would not think twice about using it for pay.
Others might but would probably charge more then most of these people are willing to pay.

Some might come running out to say "project x offered me BTC to bump their posts"
However, the people who read those ICO / Token / type posts probably don't read much else on this board so it really would not matter.
And if they are smart they do it anonymously. So you have plausible deniability.

In your research have you found how much these bumping / marketing agencies charge?

-Dave

That is the question I often ask myself, don't they realize how bad it looks when you see bunch of newbie accounts writing mostly one liners and why would anyone pay for something like that when it won't even push the thread at the top of the board like it used to.

Kudos to "marketing agencies" that still manage to sell that, I would really like to hear the tactic. My guess is that they count on ignorance of those that are hiring them, as majority of them never visited bitcontalk before so they don't really know how things are done here, and how hiring shill service is perceived. They probably tell them "everyone is doing that" or "there is so much traffic on bitcointalk that this is the only way to stand out from others", or something along those lines.

Another thing they might use to sell this service is the fact that at least 2 ICO trackers that I know of are giving ratings based on bitcointalk ANN activities (ICObench and Foundico). Again, everyone that is long enough in crypto knows that those ICO tracking sites and ratings there are irrelevant, but I guess newbies don't know that, so yet again they count on ignorance.


I would be surprised if that is not already happening, but maybe in a more discrete way. If something can be abused and monetized, most likely it will.

As I posted above I do tend to stay out of the Alts / tokens except for a few here and there.
But while sitting on hold I saw this thread and spent some time wandering around in there.
Wow, what a dumpster fire.

Looking at the bumps that these coins are getting I actually see them driving people away they are so bad.
Seriously, the crap that is being posted for no reason, since alt announcements are now sorted differently I just don't get.

Do they just not know?
Hell I'm surprised that members with bump power are not getting PMs all over the place offering BTC to bump their threads.

Sorry for the interruption of the thread, just has to vent a bit.

-Dave

Two new additions to the list

[Ann] ⭐️ XENIUMX ⭐️ ⚡ Digital Asset eCommerce Token ⚡ ⭐️
Beside hiring sock puppet accounts to fake the interest, XeniumX also completely plagiarized whitepaper of another project and is a work of a known and serial scammer Laurie Suarez. You can read more about it in scam accusation thread.


xpocket - The one-stop solution for your crypto assets
XPocket is just another shitty DeFi that hired the same newbie accounts as above mentioned XeniumX. THose accounts are working exclusively in those two threads, and nowhere else. Another "coincidence" is that all those accounts are created in the last few days/weeks.

One more ANN thread added to the list

[ANN] Cryptoenter - THE WORLD'S FIRST DEFI SERVICE ON THE ENTERPRISE BLOCKCHAIN!
Bunch of newbie accounts that were made in 2018/2019 and had no prior post history suddenly woke up and decided to write exclusively in Cryptoenter thread, doing most basic shilling, writing one liners and pretending to be interested. It still baffles me how those "marketing services" manage to sell that to projects, don;t they see how fake that looks? Or maybe they are aware but simply don't care as  they want is to increase score in equally pointless and useless ICO tracking sites.

Good finding, SYLO has been obviously shilled by those accounts you mentioned.There is some big gap in thread activity from July 2019 up until June 2020, but only recent.ly they decided to rehire shills to hype this shitcoin. It's interesting coincidence that June 2020 was exactly the time when their token reached ATH and since then it lost its value by more than 80%.

Beside Sylo, one more ANN has been added to the list. Rubic shilling started recently, and while they are mostly using new accounts (well made in 2019/early 2020 but with no prior activity) few of them are also active in another ANN that is on the list already (Totem).
🎲 Rubic 🎲 Multichain DeFi platform

You can add the following ANN thread to your list.
[ANN][TGE][AIRDROP] Sylo - decentralised communication network and ecosystem

Users below have made all their posts in that thread and are parts of the bumping group.

aljhon112233 (Post history)
ElegantCy1 (Post history)
krysi3 (Post history)
Moonicopter (Post history)
rampartwalk (Post history)
apostol999 (Post history)
BlueSXXX (Post history)
minic1993 (Post history)

Anonyme thread has been thrashed now, so all those hundreds of posts were in vain. I just wish mods nuked that thread sooner as it would save them some time from deleting hundreds of posts.

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Two new additions to the list:

[ANN] Investro - THE NEXT STEP IN AUTOMATED SOCIAL TRADING
Beside hiring bumping service to shill their thread, I tagged and flagged Investro for using fake team member photo. This is just another proof that scammers use  every method available in order to fool people, and while hiring bumping service may not be 100% proof that project is a scam, it is certainly a good indicator that something fishy is going on and calls for more in depth check up. If you dig deep enough, in most cases you can find some dirt. You can find more about Investro and their wrongdoings in this scam accusation topic.

📢[ANN][PRESALE] Base Protocol: HOLD ONE TOKEN - HOLD ALL TOKENS | [BASE] 🚀🚀  
Same group of newbie accounts that are working on Investro are active in Base Protocol ANN. No further proof needed to see what's going on here.

@Rikafip, yes I already reported the thread before I made a warning post there. Because the thread breaking the rules, no reason for me to not to report it. The post just to let them know if someday he creates another ANN thread not doing same (if they are serious with their project).

updates: recently recheck the thread, I see mod already cleaned up the junk posts there. maybe this is the last chance, if still open posts here as part of their airdrop, maybe better for mod to locked up the thread.

Damn, they managed to churn out more than 200 posts today when you look at https://loyce.club/archive/topics/528/5288431.html. Since Anonyme decided to give tokens in exchange for comments on the ANN as part of the bounty campaign, I won't add them to this list. Instead, I will report them (I don't know whether @Masulum already did that) to the mods for breaking one of the forum rules. Based on previous experience ANN will be either completely deleted or sent to Archive.


And yeah, I agree this looks like  just another anonymous staking/lending platform that will perform one of those "rug pulls" at the right time. Scenario we've seen often lately.

[ANN] Anonyme - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-anonyme-an-autonomous-interest-rate-protocol-5288431

A lot of paid shills are popping up these days. They're probably scammers too. As masulum reported, they offer a reward to their zombie followers for writing "positive comments" in their ANN topic.

You are right, Ideaology indeed hired bumping service. Bunch of newbie accounts created years ago suddenly appears and started shilling the thread with those fake conversations. As usual, I've decided to check their post history to see whether they are working on some other project too, and it was no surrprise that they are doing the same thing for another ANN, [ANN] Totem - platform for trading of DeFi and derivatives. That is some dodgy DeFi project with anonymous team, as always. I'll have to look into both of these to see whether I can find some more dirt. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

List has been updated with both of those names.

ideaology - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-ideaology-turning-bright-ideas-into-awesome-crowdfunding-5285038

Add them to your list. tons of new accounts popping up.

Two new threads have been added to the list

78. [ANN] BambooDeFi: Staking, Farming & Raindrop ecosystem.
79. Finminity. DeFi Finance solution for Community based crowdfunding

Accounts working on these two threads are also active in two previously added threads, Bonfi and Exolover. Another thing that connects accounts working on these two ANN threads is the subtle way they promote BonFi, by casually sliding in Bonfi related articles in different non-Bonfi threads/conversations. Here is one example how that looks like, but there are more of that, done in the similar manner:


Sock puppet accounts used:
pintadj
purka5
Lite_bro
ewasegun11
pyroandy
nekonoid

I can't take credit for reducing Winz.io to 15 pages, someone else is responsible for that. I was mostly active in ZYX (my archenemy), Free2ex and Baex, since they are still churning out shill posts on the daily basis, while Winz.io stopped since I tagged those accounts. I tend to focus on currently active ANN threads (especially if they are straight up scams like ZYX) and then when that calms down I switch my attention to others.


I do report on the daily basis, but can't keep up with your numbers


Good suggestion, that way we would be able to cover more ANN threads. I think that was one of the main ideas of The SpamBusters! Busting rule-breakers constantly. was to divide and coordinate spam reporting an therefore make it more efficient but somewhere along the line that practice kinda stopped.

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New addition to the list:

[ANN] EXOLOVER - First Decentralized Sex Platform
Same accounts that are working on recently  added Bonfi started their shilling on above mentioned Exolover. OP of that thread has been tagged for scam promotion in the past making it even more suspicious than usual.

I see you reported some more posts from what I left behind from Winz.io, as their topic has now only 15 pages (I left it with 18). Great job, Rikafip!

Meanwhile I continued cleaning the ANNs mentioned in OP "from down to up", Fetch.ai being the last one. Free2ex was the only one clean. If you have time and if you will, you can make a double check on these ANN topics from OP, taking them "from up to down". So I finished the ones from 76 to 67 and I will go forward these days, hoping to cover as many as possible, in the same order. If you don't have time, it's OK, I'll keep doing it, but it will take more time. If others can give a hand it would be great, but just to mention which topics they pick for cleaning, in order to avoid to make multiple reports on same posts, for making the job easy for the mods too...

I must  admit that I haven't noticed Gembira being unusually active, but I saw Kojektea many times before in various ANN thread. In my opinion that user is simply very active in altcoin board, so chances are his name will appear in those that hired bumping services too. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a group of high ranked accounts doing the same thing, but on a bit higher level, not spamming one liners, and not writing too often,  making it very hard to identify.


Yeah that one is big, as they worked there for a couple of months without being noticed. It;s no hurry though, as I can see they stopped with that now since they are tagged and Winz.io probably told them to stop as it doesn't  look when you have bunch of tagged accounts writing on the thread.


I do that from time to time, mostly to identify new ANN threads, as usually they use same accounts. Unless they get tagged, in that case they just ditch them and start using new ones and we know that's  not a problem as they have unlimited supply of newbie accounts.


Good luck!

As a coincidence, it seems it happened just after I finished reporting all the posts of the respective thread (164 posts).


I just finished reporting all the bumps from the second thread, which means 21 posts. Curiously, I found a Hero member (gembira and a Sr. Member (kojektea) among the ones which posted there... I'm not sure if they were involved also in the ANN buimping operation or if it just happened for them to post as well... What do you think?

Regarding the Winz.io thread - man, but this one is huge! It has 36 pages... I just started reporting the spam, but I'm not sure when I'll finish though...


Yes, I noticed earlier your post and I will take a look on all posting history of those accounts. Actually, as they are part of Winz.io thread, it means I'm taking care of them right now as we speak

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Prior seeing these two ANN threads posted by you, an idea crossed my mind: to double check the 74 topics mentioned by you on the first page of the topic, in order to see if more spam occurred after the posts were listed. I started today, from the most recent topic mentioned - UCACOIN and I passed through 5 threads: UCACOIN, Baex, EGGSBOOK, Amepay and JBOXCOIN. If UCACOIN was clean, so far I reported for the other ones 480 posts (35 posts from Baex topic, 24 from EGGSBOOK, 224 from Amepay and 197 from JBOXCOIN). It seems that we have to be vigilant, as although those topics are mentioned by you, the ANN bumping doesn't stop. As soon as I'll finish with Winz.io I'll resume checking all the other 69 topics mentioned by you. It will be a huge work, but I hope that by next week to finish. Wish me luck

Hey @GazetaBitcoin, by the time i was about to add their ANN, mods deleted it. It looks like they organized giveaway in exchange for comments which is against forum rules, and on top of that had fake team and plagiarized whitepaper. Good riddance I would say.


Thanks for reporting anyway, and if you have some free time on your hands, there is a big group of bumping accounts that could use some post history cleansing
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5280712

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Two new threads have been added to the list:

🚀 WINZ.IO 🚀 MACAU QUEST 🎁 UP TO 6 BTC BONUSES 🥇🥈🥉 €1000 SLOTS BATTLE
Winz.io is casino that employed bumpers for months now. Their bumpers tried to play smart game, didn't bump too much not to be too obvious, but still there is a proof of them working on several other threads that are previously on this list (Simba storage and Free2ex). Overall I identified 17 bumpers that worked on thier thread, but there might be more. Here is the thread about it Big ANN thread bumping group identified!


ANN] Bonfi (BNF) - Innovating DeFi
DeFi projects are dodgy by default, so no surprise that they hired bumping service to help them in promotion. Overall, this one looks suspicous, so if ayone is willing to check it a bit, it would be nice

I found another ANN bumping thread, which I suppose is the 75th:

[Ann] WINSSHI 🔶 ⭐️ First Decentralised Gaming Platform ⭐️ 🔶

They are spamming since August. I reported some of the posts a while ago, hoping they will calm down. Apparently, they didn't. Can this topic be added to the OP as well and also kept under attention?