Topic: Old Accounts That Have Likely Been Hacked/Traded - page 3. (Read 2006 times)

Any chance you can sign a message from this address?

1JvUpZkXynDUhsqBEFLukEi2TCS7meKmfF

The signature has been verified. Thank you for clearing the confusion.

Thank you, for the head up.

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-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hi, I am TheGreatPython from bitcointalk.org and today is September 10, 2024. I am signing this message to prove the ownership of my account against the topic=5506921. Thank you.
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1FjTWnJP1BwLh9aJqqKuJKCNzypo4Cu52F
IF5Uw1z86VjKvFCWtliHsiTRGHjn55m+lgtSY38Xi/oVRzmyZ1e37FtQCjJIgygUrLYduW1usFfszFpNpApzTec=
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Here is the unedited post where I posted that address:

I would say then show everybody that we are wrong and you are right for sign a message via one of the old addresses you posted.
Saddly your Account is a very old one and you still missed to post in the Stake your Bitcoin address here

1JvUpZkXynDUhsqBEFLukEi2TCS7meKmfF
1FjTWnJP1BwLh9aJqqKuJKCNzypo4Cu52F
12DPg31ahx3RVcUEzAizdY3opxTSJuWpnM
1NGeVpgunUA1JuzNNddtceYHqYCfPaZBXT
1P6TDeBp7s4Ua95R4ABgzffyKLRaBgMQY2
bc1qswf0jz75luycwde46zz2zfrf9jm63zzmfw94j0

If you can make a message from you oldest one i guess that would be fine.

I guess I still have the access to the addys posted in my early days to sign a message.

Gaps in my posting history happened due to multiple reasons like exams or health reasons. But this is first time, I learn that gaps in posts prove the "change of ownership".

You are contracting yourself and not considering about the people who move out for studying or for job to Dubai or Europe.

One of the other things I have noticed is the number of accounts that are participating in a freebie signature campaign. Clearly this does not apply to all of those participating because many were on campaigns before they shutdown leaving them waiting for another opportunity to apply but many of the dubious accounts are hoping to be next in line when the same campaign manager has slots open on a paying campaign.

Whether those very many accounts (some that you alluded to) have been either hacked or traded, I think the modus operandi of the puppeteer controlling the accounts is to attempt to come across as a genuine member with the ultimate motive being to enrol another farmed account on to a campaign.

You are right. The first owner spoke Russian. There are several posts in the Russian section.
https://ninjastic.space/search?author=IvugeoEvolutionCoin&board=72

But something else is interesting. The account you found has several more that can be grouped by the Telegram nickname.
https://ninjastic.space/search?content=Telegram%20Username%3A%20Nicholasogbu

One first appeared in 2018, but it was not profitable to deal with a newbie account for the bounty and the company signature, and the user bought an account with a high rank.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/chelsea4life-2403313
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/wisepuppy-2403310

He is very active in changing passwords and emails.
https://bpip.org/Profile?id=505918

In the same way, you can find a Telegram contact for another account that also has a negative tag for buying an account.

https://ninjastic.space/post/51725767
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=18587

I will leave the tag.

Look how Ivugeo coin/exchange representative turned into a shitposter.

This was the last post made by the original owner,


Three years later he woke up and this is his 2nd post


The English they spoke before;


and now

You're right, its not enough, its just anecdotal evidence that supports my claim. And you could be right. People will say anything sometimes.

They also have death penalty for rape in Pakistan, yet there are many cases of rape recorded all the time, especially with women from foreign countries.
I don't think his beer post is enough to claim account was hacked, and he surely watched a bunch of american movies with people eating pizza and drinking beer.

Oh man, there's no way I'd ever pay attention to things like this. 
Anyway, good catch.

Here's another one that's seemingly gone unnoticed for too long:

TheGreatPython

Account created Oct 2013, primarily used to take part in giveaways, contests & then signature campaigns, so its always been a shitposting account of sorts.

Posting gaps:

May 2014 - Oct 2015
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024

Seems to have been owned by the same person from Jun 2017 - Nov 2020, and possibly still belongs to that owner, as there are no BPIP seclog entries. However, the account first started posting in the Pakistan thread in July 2024, while Nov 2022, they were claiming to drink beer and eat pizza, something I don't think anybody in Pakistan actually does (alcohol being forbidden for the Muslim majority).


Only 3% of Pakistan's population is allowed to buy beer. Not saying that its not possible to get beer there, but its definitely not "allowed" for most people.

Anyway, this account appears to have changed hands at least twice given the posting gaps.

The original owner was quite frequent in the Hardware Board
While the current first post was on the Altcoin discussion Board and very active in the gambling board.
 There's a huge disparity in English not to mention this
password reset via email before waking up.

If you think changed hands deserve to be painted, then do it by yourself. Otherwise, you're contradict what you said.

That's your opinion, other users think different, they view having company account and individual account are same, it belong to the same person who operate it. So in case one of them scam or did something wrong, both of them receive the same consequence.

I don’t find red tagging accounts that have changed hands to be out of place. It’s more like, having to inherit a certificate which can’t be done.
Your account is a representation of your physical equivalent, just on the forum and so, you can’t have 2 persona behind an account. There isn’t a then and now when you aren’t the same person.
Of course the case might be different when it is a company account (casinos, sportsbook, exchanges and what have you). When it’s an individual account, it just shouldn’t be and as such, tagging isn’t out of place.

In that case, here's another account that is clearly not the owner. Read the reference link. He says he just found out about the forum, but he already has the rank of Sr. Member.

https://bpip.org/Profile?id=149464


the owner of the account was a miner

Well nutildah, you know I do hand out red tags any time I come across accounts that have changed hands, and I've never thought a neutral was enough--but of course I realize this has always been a controversial position, and I respect everyone's opinion on how to handle people who've bought, sold, or hacked accounts.

I'll have a look at the accounts here and then will probably whip out the spray gun.  There's nothing good about members buying or selling accounts, and the potential for some serious wrongdoing is huge (and I know you know this).  Thanks for creating this thread, bro.  I don't go sniffing these idiots out anymore, but damned if I'll ignore them when they're served to me on a plate.

Here's another one I saw today, merit hunting in the WO thread. They're also participating in merit contests while writing drivel on the Gambling board & elsewhere.

Glen Hoddle

The account appears to have been sold in May 2024.



Secondly, their level of English goes from this:


to this:


Seems like this is a case of an email expiring & somebody recovering the account with a re-registered email address. There's no way this account belongs to the original owner. These kind of accounts give themselves away every time.

For years I've noticed that a common theme among account farmers is to use their bounty/campaign earnings to buy aged accounts.

While I personally don't red tag bought accounts, I'm not against it so long as there is ample proof the account has changed hands. Instead, this is a thread for neutral tags in cases where it seems highly likely that the current owner and original owner are different.

Why do this? Mainly because when someone uses a bought account, it gives the impression that the accomplishments of somebody else are their own. Its a misrepresentation of one's own capabilities, accomplishments, and/or standing.

How to do this? Here's my main criteria:

• Long posting gap (1 or more years)
• Noticeable change in writing style
• Quickly joins sig campaign or bounty
• Change in posting habits (places, frequency, etc.)
• No cryptographic proof owner is the original

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For instance, while investigating what I believe is a firmly-entrenched alt farm, I came across this account:

cozytrade - registered Dec 15, 2013

It already has a neutral feedback from JollyGood:

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Then we have this account:

GigaBit - registered December 21, 2013

This is one of the more ridiculous transformations I've seen:



I mean, do I really have to say anything else here? Same thing as before: the account goes from masterful use of the English language (the new owner never changed the original location of Ontario, Canada) to posting once again drivel in mediocre English in the Gambling board:

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From now on I will write a reference in this thread when neutral tagging an account I suspect of being hacked/traded. You can feel free to use it for your own tags, so long as at least the 1st two items in the criteria list are met. I'm against issuing red trust solely based on these criteria, however.