ElizabethA is back
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5232275
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5232287
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5232288
Same spam news
Topic: List of advertising shills. Mods please review and ban as appropriate. - page 3. (Read 2833 times)
March 12, 2020, 08:49:59 AM
March 11, 2020, 03:03:27 PM
User: BestBitcoinCasino
All posts made by this user are links to a specific website.
BestBitcoinCasino's post history
All posts made by this user are links to a specific website.
BestBitcoinCasino's post history
March 09, 2020, 11:36:05 AM
At this point I would advocate for shutting the Press Board altogether. It is predominantly just legalized plagiarism by advertising bots or bounty shills. The few good topics which are posted there could just be discussed in Bitcoin Discussion instead.
Indeed. I actually stopped reading the "notable" Press board completely about 8 months ago due to it being full of utter nonsense, clickbait & general sensationalist BS - seems it's gotten even worse since then. Didn't think that was possible....
It seems that as Bitcoin gets more widely known about, the more cr@p there is to read about it posted by nobodies. That's the price of success I guess, but it's sad to see once informative boards go to sh*t like this.
March 09, 2020, 10:32:15 AM
Yup, my number of reports against the three users you have mentioned continues to increase, and yet we still seem to be taking no conclusive action against any of them. And even with the all their topics which I have had either deleted or moved, the Press Board has still been turned in to their own personal spam board:
At this point I would advocate for shutting the Press Board altogether. It is predominantly just legalized plagiarism by advertising bots or bounty shills. The few good topics which are posted there could just be discussed in Bitcoin Discussion instead.
At this point I would advocate for shutting the Press Board altogether. It is predominantly just legalized plagiarism by advertising bots or bounty shills. The few good topics which are posted there could just be discussed in Bitcoin Discussion instead.
March 09, 2020, 09:31:45 AM
I'm not sure if ElizabethA was temp banned so they moved back to JessicaVL, or if JessicaVL's temp ban had expired so they just moved back anyway. Regardless, both accounts are clearly part of the same bot, and temporary banning JessicaVL has obviously not taught the owner any lessons whatsoever. Please could mods consider perma-ban both accounts?
JessicaVL is back, I see that most post are now in Off-topic/Alternate cryptocurrencies, which shows us that the only change that has taken place is the strategy where to post.
I also notice we have new shills in Press board, along with aforementioned zakoliverz, there is blacky90 who is working for cryptonews.com.
March 04, 2020, 07:39:59 AM
Likewise. They're persistent, I'll give them that.
It would be nice if mods took action against the coinsbit scammers exchange thread, it's just page after page (121 at time of writing) of bumping accounts - all of which have been tagged by multiple forum members, but the scam bumping continues & unfortunately there are unsuspecting noobs who are falling for it & getting scammed:
For a week now my account has been blocked in response to just hearing (expect). And the indicated withdrawal time is 24 hours and I'm not the only one!
This sometimes happens on different exchanges. I have had similar cases repeatedly when using Bittrex. But this does not say that the exchange is bad.
This is why:
You've been scammed by a botfarm posing as an exchange.
I've reported this scam thread to moderators in the hope that they will delete it before any more noobs get scammed by this bot farm:
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This is a scam exchange who's thread has 119 pages of paid shills constantly bumping/spamming it. Please delete this thread & ban said accounts connected before more unsuspecting noobs get scammed, thank you.
As it says, I've reported the accounts & the thread, but I think it'll take a few more reports before the mods take action. The sooner they do, the less noobs will get scammed.
March 04, 2020, 03:18:28 AM
March 02, 2020, 03:26:11 PM
So I reported ElizabethA multiple times with links back to my post above explaining that the account is an alt of JessicaVL and obviously being used as a bot. ElizabethA has now been inactive for a couple of days, just as JessicaVL starts back up again with 4 new threads of the same spammy nonsense in 20 minutes. I'm not sure if ElizabethA was temp banned so they moved back to JessicaVL, or if JessicaVL's temp ban had expired so they just moved back anyway. Regardless, both accounts are clearly part of the same bot, and temporary banning JessicaVL has obviously not taught the owner any lessons whatsoever. Please could mods consider perma-ban both accounts?
zakoliverz, whom I also mentioned above, has turned out to be your standard run-of-the-mill Press board spammer. Including threads of his I've had deleted, 7 of the last 9 new topics in Press board are from him. All are the exact same legalized plagiarism. He also deserves a ban.
zakoliverz, whom I also mentioned above, has turned out to be your standard run-of-the-mill Press board spammer. Including threads of his I've had deleted, 7 of the last 9 new topics in Press board are from him. All are the exact same legalized plagiarism. He also deserves a ban.
February 28, 2020, 08:02:35 AM
ElizabethA is at it again
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5229164
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5229164
February 26, 2020, 04:37:33 PM
I checked post history of all users that have already been reported in this thread.
Some of them need more attention from moderators/admins.
Some of them need more attention from moderators/admins.
| _____________ | _________________ | _________________ | _______________________ |
| Date | Reported user | Link to report | Result |
| _____________ | _________________ | _________________ | _______________________ |
| Feb. 05 | -Multivitamina- | o_e_l_e_o | changed behavior |
| Feb. 05 | Jgilpulg | o_e_l_e_o | No post since January 27 |
| Feb. 05 | jdebunt | o_e_l_e_o | No post since January 31 |
| Feb. 05 | JessicaVL | o_e_l_e_o | No post since February 11 |
| Feb. 06 | Bitcoin_chaser | hosseinimr93 | is still advertising |
| Feb. 07 | CoinTrendy | 20kevin20 | is still advertising |
| Feb. 07 | crabby | logfiles | is still advertising |
| Feb. 07 | Alex077 | Jawhead999 | is still advertising |
| Feb. 07 | voskobojn | Jawhead999 | is still advertising |
| Feb. 07 | DimaKHV | Jawhead999 | No post since January 27 |
| Feb. 07 | FOX | Jawhead999 | is still advertising |
| Feb. 07 | jenniferletty | hulla | No post since February 15 |
| Feb. 08 | mamamu111 | TravelMug | No post since February 16 |
| Feb. 08 | angle_crypto | Lucius | No post since February 18 |
| Feb. 11 | Xangle | TravelMug | is still advertising |
| Feb. 11 | star7dust | Stalker22 | Last link on February 13 |
| Feb. 11 | market pearl | Baofeng | No post since February 17 |
| Feb. 15 | Denial11 | Baofeng | No post since February 20 |
| Feb. 22 | fourthfunction | tmfp | No post since February 21 |
| Feb. 24 | zakoliverz | o_e_l_e_o | ------ |
| Feb. 26 | ElizabethA | suchmoon | ------ |
| _____________ | _________________ | _________________ | _______________________ |
February 26, 2020, 10:34:01 AM
This seems at first glance to be an alt account of :
It absolutely is.JessicaVL had another account over at the cryptocurrencytalk forums by the name of JVanLier, which posted all the same trash that she posted here.
Have a look at the most recent posts of the JVanLier account: https://cryptocurrencytalk.com/profile/100425-jvanlier/
Compare to the most recent posts and the ElizabethA account: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/elizabetha-2672680
Literally identical posts made mere seconds apart.
Can a mod please ban the ElizabethA account for ban evasion? Or if not ban evasion, then at least for being a bot.
February 26, 2020, 09:55:17 AM
Another drive-by thread starter: ElizabethA
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/elizabetha-2672680;sa=showPosts
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/elizabetha-2672680;sa=showPosts
This seems at first glance to be an alt account of :
User: JessicaVL
Shills a variety of projects, including "tap.global", "eToro.com", "4king.com" and "vertex.market". Starts a lot of copy and paste threads in Bitcoin Discussion. Also makes lots of low value posts in other user's threads simply to include a link to one of the shilled projects.
Shills a variety of projects, including "tap.global", "eToro.com", "4king.com" and "vertex.market". Starts a lot of copy and paste threads in Bitcoin Discussion. Also makes lots of low value posts in other user's threads simply to include a link to one of the shilled projects.
ElizabethA is start with posting same links as JessicaVL, only 3 days after JessicaVL is stopped, maybe the reason is ban. Either way, this way of advertising no longer pass under the radar, and all who go down this path will face the same fate.
February 26, 2020, 08:18:50 AM
Another drive-by thread starter: ElizabethA
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/elizabetha-2672680;sa=showPosts
This one is a bit more robust: doesn't always shill the same site, adds a question like "What do you think about crypto insurance?", and in one case even responded in their own thread!
Still mostly useless garbage.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/elizabetha-2672680;sa=showPosts
This one is a bit more robust: doesn't always shill the same site, adds a question like "What do you think about crypto insurance?", and in one case even responded in their own thread!
Still mostly useless garbage.
February 26, 2020, 07:12:20 AM
The fourthfunction account has posted 288 times in the ~8 weeks it's been in existence.
All 288 posts are links to publish0x articles.
I have reported the account to moderators with this note
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This account has posted 288 times. Every post is the same: the briefest of intros, followed by a link to media site publish0x. This is surely the definition of low quality posting and by inference paid-to-post. I request that a ban, in the interest of the forum's posting integrity, be imposed.
I'll check intermittently to see if any action is taken and post here.Indeed, I tagged the account a few months back for this exact reason.
The account has been autobanned: https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?id=2734070
Thanks to all who reported the posts & to the Mod system for doing it's thing.
February 24, 2020, 09:50:02 AM
That account could be part of a bigger shill or affiliate from publish0x unraveled by @20kevin20 here.
One group will spam the community with their affiliate links and then the other one, with links to publish0x articles only.
One group will spam the community with their affiliate links and then the other one, with links to publish0x articles only.
Thanks for that link, I missed that thread.
If you look at pulbish0x's business model then the bigger situation becomes clear. This is purely a game of Whack-A-Mole.
The only way to deal with this effectively is to convince Theymos that it's in the forum's best interest to bar any and all links to publish0x.
That'll be a hard sell....
Even if an account is banned, they can still log in, and so the "Last active" time on their profile will still update. They just won't be able to post, PM, send merit, etc.
I didn't know that, thanks.
fourthfunction has just now started posting publish0x linked threads again, so it's not banned. I'm reporting them. Boring.
February 24, 2020, 04:05:35 AM
Logged in tonight without posting (so isn't banned), has rarely missed a day up till now. Strange.
Even if an account is banned, they can still log in, and so the "Last active" time on their profile will still update. They just won't be able to post, PM, send merit, etc.From my understanding from the following post made by Welsh, moderators can only request the ban.
Ahh I see, thanks. So in these cases it is perhaps not being "moved up the chain", as it were, to be seen by a global moderator. Not sure what we can do about that. Perhaps mentioning on the report that this is the 10th/20th/30th time that this user is breaking the same rule would make it more likely to be flagged up to a global mod?Here's another account to keep an eye on: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/zakoliverz-89944
A long history of this exact kind of spamming from back in 2014 and 2015, woke up a couple of days ago, and immediately started spamming the Press board again. If he repeats his previous activity, I'll be suggesting that he is banned on all my reports.
February 23, 2020, 11:49:37 PM
The fourthfunction account has posted 288 times in the ~8 weeks it's been in existence.
All 288 posts are links to publish0x articles.
I have reported the account to moderators with this note
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This account has posted 288 times. Every post is the same: the briefest of intros, followed by a link to media site publish0x. This is surely the definition of low quality posting and by inference paid-to-post. I request that a ban, in the interest of the forum's posting integrity, be imposed.
I'll check intermittently to see if any action is taken and post here.That account could be part of a bigger shill or affiliate from publish0x unraveled by @20kevin20 here.
One group will spam the community with their affiliate links and then the other one, with links to publish0x articles only.
February 23, 2020, 11:19:47 PM
Yeah, he has crossed the line with his last topic
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53886563
Hi Everyone!
I've used a lot of crypto exchanges over the last 8 years or so. I wanted to share my top 7 exchanges going into 2020.
I would love to hear what everyone here thinks and see if I'm missing any exchange from my list.
Check it out and let me know.
The Top 7 Cryptocurrency Exchanges in 2020
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
I've used a lot of crypto exchanges over the last 8 years or so. I wanted to share my top 7 exchanges going into 2020.
I would love to hear what everyone here thinks and see if I'm missing any exchange from my list.
Check it out and let me know.
The Top 7 Cryptocurrency Exchanges in 2020
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
This is worse than clickbait, he's hiding all the content behind that link, he has no comments about it posted, no additional info, if you want to know what's this about you have to click his link.
February 23, 2020, 08:55:27 PM
The fourthfunction account has posted 288 times in the ~8 weeks it's been in existence.
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I shall see if it produces its customary ~10 posts later today.
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I shall see if it produces its customary ~10 posts later today.
The shitposting continues - I have also now reported the account, suggest others do the same.
It hasn't posted since my report.
Logged in tonight without posting (so isn't banned), has rarely missed a day up till now. Strange.
February 23, 2020, 11:22:48 AM
I've wondered about this too. I have often reported with a comment along the lines of "Chronic/long term/repeated behavior. Please review post history and trash/delete/ban/nuke" or something similar. The post in question is often trashed, but very rarely does anything happen to the other posts. I wondered if it was due to the report being handled by a non-global mod without the power to delete the posts in other sections or ban the user in question.
In my experience, even if all posts are made in one section, posts are barely deleted. I have asked to check other posts many times. I even tried reporting more than 10 posts and asking to check other posts in the comment. But only reported posts were deleted although all posts of that user had been made in one section. If this is the case, does that mean a global mod will never see the report? Is there a system for mods to both handle reports like this but also flag it up for the attention of a global mod? Or is it better to report multiple posts from the user as there is then a higher chance of a global mod seeing one and banning the user?
From my understanding from the following post made by Welsh, moderators can only request the ban. Global moderators and admins will decide whether to ban the user or not.-snip-
However, this ban was requested by myself, and I included a temporary ban suggestion, but ultimately its up to the global moderator or admin that hands out the ban what length the ban will be.
However, this ban was requested by myself, and I included a temporary ban suggestion, but ultimately its up to the global moderator or admin that hands out the ban what length the ban will be.
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