Topic: Old Accounts That Have Likely Been Hacked/Traded (Read 2576 times)

Here's one:  pakhirgan

Not very old, but just woke up after nearly three years of hibernation, and spammed the forum with 20 posts about some shady AML checking service.  These 20 posts are scattered across the many sections of the forum.

Looks like a hacked or sold account.

Saw this one today when perusing the forum, has been the subject of other discussion:

MuffinMaster - registered Dec 2013

This account sent a bunch of merits to seemingly random accounts in a Merry Christmas thread, how nice. They also have a 3-year posting gap between 2014 and 2017, and the account seems to have changed hands at least once since 2017. Posting content goes from Native English level writing in 2014 to the generic half-literate shitposting (in shitposting threads no less) we see today. In short, there's no way this account currently belongs to its original owner.

https://bpip.org/Profile?id=472651

The account, which has another alternate account marked for sale in its history, likely also has no real owner.

wmaurik

Previously, two accounts published faucet sites.

In 2019, the alternate account was marked as for sale.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49211677

However, the Bitcoin address belongs to another account, which is also not the real owner.

https://ninjastic.space/addresses?address=1GQu8Gki7y9ZLXQuCN23vnTeoJpgMuZ9ez



There is a break in publications, and then a completely different posting begins in the Indonesian local section.

Today, this account is applying to participate in the company's signature.


This account has no options to cheat.
There are two options.
Admit that the account is not his, and it was bought, or admit his complicity in another account that has been flagged 6 times for fraud.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=807582

I sent a PM to determine its status.

You definitely don't have any good intentions by taking over someone else's account, thus the warnings. You could have created yours from scratch and no one would bother you. So many user accounts wake up every day, why do you think this particular account raised some eyebrows.

I am giving you a chance to prove me wrong.

Log into your GitHub account (https://github.com/xpbcreator), make a small update in one of the repositories and post proof here or else I am going to add a tag to your account, and it might even be negative.

If my memory serves me right, I've never accepted anyone into a commercial campaign if I saw a tag left by you.  

With contests, things are different, as it's a bit harder to keep track of the hundreds of daily submissions.

No. There's no way you are the original owner of this account as your English is terrible compared to the original owner. It is the same English that I have seen in probably a dozen bought accounts here. The original owner also knew a lot about coding, QT wallets and mining. From the way you type I'm guessing your technical knowledge of these things is extremely limited. Even if you were able to explain to me the concepts of Delegated Proof of Stake and CryptoNote, you wouldn't be doing it using your own words -- you'd be paraphrasing something you found on the internet.

Fortunately for you a lot of campaign managers don't care if an account is bought or not so you can probably still apply for a campaign.

Hello logfiles and nutildah,

I hope you'r well. I came to the forum after a long time and changed my old password and email because old passwords and emails are now connected to a new device, so we have to change them for our own needs. Many of us have to move in different directions due to various problems. Changing passwords and emails is not bad, we can do it for our security, it is my personal matter. I don't have any reason here and have known about the forum for a long time, but due to the current gap, you are thinking of me as someone different. It would help if you were happy to say that some old users are still with you.

As long as there is no problem or scam or anything outside the rules and regulations of the forum, we cannot say anything to them. And all the accounts that are revived are not changed hands or sold. Old users can come back, so it is wrong to harass anyone like this if they woke up.

logfiles, the things you are doing are good but it is better to look at them a little and see if there is any problem and then report them. I don't think there is a need to report me until you find any mistakes. Thank you

nutildah, you saw the report and came and tagged it, this cannot be a good thing. You also came to the forum in 2014 and I also came to the forum in the same year but I couldn't give it time so I am lagging. I have changed my password and email for my security and I don't see any mistakes here.
After reaching 100k in Bitcoin, I came to this forum and posted something. I joined some contests in gaming, and for this you cannot tag. Avoid tagging anyone as wrong as you want. Remove the tag you have given.

It is my personal matter to change everything in my account on the forum. Then if you see any mistakes in me, then definitely tag me. And if you don't see any mistakes, then definitely don't tag me. Although many things have changed in the forum now and many updates have been made, many rules and regulations have been added. Although I can't spend that much time on the forum, I will try to stay with you. Thank you.

Please don't shitpost in my threads. It is a shitpost because it offers nothing new or of value. You have the entire rest of the forum to post in, so my request shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for your understanding.

Thank you logfiles for catching such a xpb id. Noticed this yesterday when I was storing the Security Log data. 28 users/day in the last 12/08/2024: woke up rankeable member 28, password changed: 04 user, Password & mail change: 03 user

Anyway, these accounts should be monitored to see where they move in the future. A lot of such accounts are emerging but what will they do will be seen in the future.

99.9%. Furthermore, there's a good chance its owned by the owner these other aged accounts posting in the same thread:

temple
strunberg

Almost all of XPB's posts have to do with something called PebbleCoin (XPB). I'm going to neutral tag it. This isn't enough to stop accounts from getting in campaigns or participating in contests, but its not my fault some managers have no interest in quality control.

XPB
- Registered: December 30, 2014
- Woke up today.
- Password was changed today
- Email address was changed


- Account started posting today after an eight-year posting gap. Previously, last post was made on: June 06, 2016, 01:04:57 AM
- 5 of today's 6 posts were either rounds and games participations or an application for a signature campaign - https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/xpb-407435;sa=showPosts

What are the chances that this account was stolen or sold?

Plento

1. Changed password on October 17, 2024
https://bpip.org/Profile?id=301111
2. Changed email address on the same day

3. Old bitcointalk account, registered on March 24, 2014 starts posting bounty reports on July 18, 2021 after lengthy posting gaps
4. After the the recent change in password and email, account is now back with making locked ANNs in Digital goods as well as trying to participate in contests in games and rounds

I believe the account is after scamming users here as some members have already complained

One of the locked ANNs

Some of the complaints
A.
I am going to tag and flag the account on the grounds of locked ANNs.

Here's an account that woke up on Oct 14th to make some breathtakingly stupid posts:

spacelab - registered May 20, 2014

This account originally belonged to a developer who made something called BurnCoin in 2014. They were a native English speaker:


Account may have first changed hands in 2018. Its present owner couldn't string a sentence in English together to save their life:


Totally void of reason, logic or original thought. Simply stunning:

Folks, October 06, 2024, Yesterday (October 16, 2024) and today (October 17, 2024) forum time have had the highest number of accounts waking up according to the seclog

When I add newbie accounts, the list is enormous! And those three days standout in the last 30 days. I am 100% sure someone or a group of people is/are waking up their farms or stolen account
I just sampled through a few accounts and some are banned while other even feature in this thread made by jokers10 - Farm of Combo campaign rule breaking accs

So if you are looking to bust the account farmers/ stolen accounts, look no further than those 3 days, they could probably continue waking up more

seclog (only ranked up accounts) - https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php (https://archive.ph/CwaV8)
Seclog (including newbie accounts) - https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php?all (https://archive.ph/3Dnea)

Let's connect all the posts that were created for this character
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.64479330

Just noticed this guy churning out some real bangers (already neutral tagged by lovesmayfamilis).

CroverNo01

Date Registered: September 09, 2013

Almost a 9-year posting gap between 2014 - 2023.



Original owner was a UK-based seller of mining equipment. New owner can barely type English.

The account was registered in 2014.

fullhdpixel

https://bpip.org/Profile?p=fullhdpixel

The original account owner was involved in creating websites. He has several of them.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7533501

He was also the creator of a project that he wanted to sell on the forum. In his topic, there is a single Bitcoin wallet address in 2014, which the current account owner can confirm to prove that the account is his.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5989363


Posting in announcements of alternative coins ends in 2015, not counting the only post in 2017.

https://ninjastic.space/search?author=fullhdpixel&board=67

I see a break in posting for two years, after which a different writing style begins and joins the company signature.



Since 2017, the person has never returned to the topics he discussed earlier. I do not believe that after two years you can change for the worse, completely change your interests.   

Waiting for your response over here.


Please don't shitpost in my thread. As a matter of fact, please don't post in any of my threads. Thank you for your cooperation.

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You've made a good list of criteria to possibly spot an account that has changed hand, because if we should only use one thing to spot them out wouldn't have been enough, let say "the posting gap"

Someone may leave the forum for one or more than a year due to obvious reasons and come back after some years but still the original owner,  therefore, combining a lot of things such as you have listed makes brain. Another way to possibly spot them out is posting pattern, basically the local board and other discussion board will/may change differently from where the original owner usually post.

It's actually quite simple. I've seen your posts from the very beginning, and I trust nutildah's opinion and also adhere to the version that you are not the original owner of the account. However, because I can't prove it directly, I remain in doubt, and I don't see the point in discussing it further. There are many doubts about your transfers of merits to accounts that also have an early registration date. I think that this account is not your only one. But again, until there is direct evidence, there is no point in discussing it. However, everyone has a different opinion, and for JollyGood, it always takes a little longer to agree to do something.