Topic: Please check. Account with suspicious username cozytrade (Read 702 times)

That is exactly the whole point here. You don't have to agree with everyone's opinion, nor is it your place to judge anyone for having one. This is the exact reason why we have freedom of speech: so that everyone can say what they think and have their voice heard, and have it respected. If you don't like that someone has a different opinion than yours, then you are free to ignore that person or their opinion. You cannot force people to agree with you and nor should you try. It may be true that this place can be a bit "rough" at times, but the idea is to keep it democratized.

New generation is merit generation. Anyway, credit-discredit, does he really need to response you with evidence or not need to, all are irrelevant. My point is some of you are too triggered to leave bad label to others and make this place annoying for the victims as you want to claim the forum to be your own territory.

Anyway, there are no point to exchange words with you. Your mindset and my mindset are totally different. It's clear from the few post we exchanged with each others. It's fine to agree in disagreement.

The only one triggered here seems to be you. Especially when you use that infantile stuff like "new generations" while having no idea how old person that you are addressing to is and trying to discredit it that way.


I honestly don't care whether person I left feedback will be annoyed with it as its up to him to be annoyed or not.


Very bad analogy and its not what has happened here. The very first reply in this topic was me telling OP to come back with evidence as change of email/pass is not enough, and I only left neutral when I had time to check post history. Btw, have you even bothered to check his post history back in 2014/2015 and compared it to posts written during 2017? Either account changed owner, or more people are using this account as I don't see the other explanation for such a sudden change.

Oh my! I am sorry that the new generation is unsteady. A little information that sounds against your will, you get upset too easily. I have personally nothing to get annoyed when you are writing anything on anyone's trust page. But when I will see it's too much abusive I will defiantly response with a distrust.

When I said to annoy others I meant to annoy the person who received the feedback. Of course you are labeling him/her with an unpleasant comment (neutral) which possibly is not even him. Lately it became a trend that a troll will create a topic against person A and some of you will continue responding him with what he wants. It gives birth of the next troll.

You are not going to write like: "I like this guy" or "This guy was not active on the forum for long time but good to see he is back" or "Welcome back again, I hope you had a good long break" but you are telling him negative inspired statement even when you are not sure. The feedback system with neutral option gave too much open space too everyone but it's sad to see the generation finds it pleasant only to give bad label to others.

Image in your neighborhood, you saw someone who seemed to live here a long ago. Some stranger come and tell you this guy is a rapist. You go to the guy and tell him you are a rapist and stick a poster to his door saying this guy is a rapist. What will you expect? Do you even have any right to talk to him that way?

Read response for Rikafip.

There is no reason to become upset. A single neutral feedback on your account has no impact whatsoever on your further participation in the forum.


I do not agree with this. Neutral feedbacks are like opinions - they are personal and often subjective. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if that opinion has no basis in fact. Personally, I would like to see more neutral tags that can be valuable to the community. The more people participate in such user-friendly forms of interaction, the better conditions will be created within the forum.

How many falsehoods do you have? Your words literally signal, "I came to the forum to participate in subscription companies." What kind of help are you talking about here? About what experience? Funny.


The first day of  appearance on the forum and  instant submission to participate in subscription companies And yes, you probably accidentally sent two merits for such a great post to a spammer who has a lot of deleted posts on the same day you decided to "help the forum." He is probably also experiencing the same problems at the moment that you don't want to talk about.
Of course, you will be very careful now, but you must understand that there are a lot of suspicions that you are not a real user, and you will constantly attract close attention to yourself. By the way, a neutral tag will not complicate your goal of appearing on the forum in any way; most likely, it's not about the tag but about you.

Neutral feedback will not gonna hurt your account profitability on campaigns since the tag content means he is not sure and campaign manager usually don't take consideration on this but rather on your post quality. Just prove to them that you are the real owner by making your style same to your original one. Just be active and keep contributing. DT network is not moderated so even theymos can’t remove it. His tag has a valid reference but that doesn't mean it can’t be change.

Do you use pilot service before which is the reason for the decrease of english proficiency of your post? This service widely use on Pilipinas board during that time due to bounty popularity.

Man this was really unnecessary. If i do anything wrong put some neg on me no problem. But what you have done is now make me an imposter in my own account. If you really think i am not that same person just put me in your ignore list. I hope you will think about it and remove that feedback.

If you are annoyed with my feedback left to cozytrade or think of it as unnecessary, you are free to put me on your distrust list.

I understand it's a good way to fish some merit LOL

Is it really necessary to leave a neutral saying it's most likely changed hand where there are no harm yet found. All hype came only from the OP who seems an alt account that is fishing for merit. He is so new to the forum that in his 4th post he realized busting alt account is a good way to earn some merit.

If you need to take a note for yourself then use TryNinjas self note extension. That way you do not annoy others with unnecessary feedback.

I do not have any doubt that the OP is using his/her alt account to create this post. And I have not got any suspicious activity that can prove the ownership has been changed.

The password has been changed two times recently but there is still no evidence that the hand has been changed. If hands are changed then the account can be sold and that can be used for scams.

Yea, and that is why the unofficial rules states that account buying is not a crime but it is discouraged. If account ownership is easily swapped, there will be no room for reputation.
Why I also agree with you that most of these accounts are harmless is because people hardly fall victim of scam. In the early years when trust was newly introduced and effective, there was little/no exchanges were bitcoin could be bought. Today, everyone knows where to buy bitcoin and the tendency of scam is therefore reduced.

Where I will always be interested is when such accounts begin to shitpost, spam or shil scam projects, then they should be boldly tagged.

There are a lot of similar accounts in the Indonesian and Filipino local sections. Some are not even shy and do not delete posts that clearly say that the owner of the account has changed. But as long as there are no clear rules on whether such accounts should be tagged, no one takes any action. Of course, these accounts are harmless on the one hand, but given that so many newbies are trying to raise their accounts to participate in subscription companies, the participation of purchased or hacked accounts should be limited.

An account woke up after 3years of inactivity;
So, what happened again?
-The account changed email and password simultaneously.
Then, what does that mean?
- It means that the account has changed hands.
So, if the account changed hands, what offence was committed by changing ownership?
-offence of account sells.
Is there any evidence of account sells?
-Yes, because he changed email and password.
So, what should be done to the account.
-The account should be tagged!
After tagging, what next?
-Nothing else, the battle has been won.


His dad taught him English, but later on mom relocated with him where he unlearnt English for Dutch. 

I am not getting what is suspicious exactly. Anyone could wake up and change account credentials. That doesn't mean they are doing suspicious. As long as they aren't abusing the forum you can't take action against anyone unless there is transparent evidence of changing hands. By the way, I am pretty sure you are posting from your alts.

Why should ownership change automatically mean that password and/or email change has to happen as well? Sure, it makes sense to change those things if you bought an account so the previous owner can't retake control of it, but accounts are not always sold and instead they are just given (like friend giving a friend his account) and in order to raise any red flags, the new owner decided to keep the old password.

By the way, have you compared the posts made in 2015 with those from 2017? How would you explain regress in the English level as people usually get better in foreign language through years or use, and not worse.

I have seen you have mentioned by a neutral trust that possible change of the account in 2017. But I have not got a clue about it. The first-time password was changed on at 10/18/2022 5:56:16 PM and woke up 10/18/2022 5:55:27 PM. But if ownership changed then the password should be changed too at the time of ownership change!!

Sure, owner would come here and said something about being hacked, but only if he was also active on the forum at the time (a lot of hacked accounts are used for spreading malware and the real owners extremely rarely show up). In this case account woke up 4 and a half years later so I doubt that real owner would notice something happening. Btw there's no real evidence here that account has been hacked but imho account changed hands somewhere during 2017.

About 2 months before I registered for an account, I often visited the bitcointalk.org site using a laptop and I continued to use Android. That's what I do when I'm getting bored with work reports and when I'm bored with games.

Almost every day for 2 months I did that to make me find out more about crypto because along with I found crypto ads while I was browsing and it was very annoying. When I opened the bitcointalk.org site, I clicked on all the spaces and it turned out that life was very active here.

Actually I'm planning to register an account not October 29, 2022, 06:29:41 PM but October 31, 2022 to make it easier for me to remember the anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper. So don't be surprised my first post is about my thanks to Satoshi.

Can my answer be used as a new topic?

If that's the main point you made this topic about the @cozytrade account I don't think there's much to do other than prejudice, but if you have any evidence other than 'Wake up and Email' was replaced it might be a different story what happened to the @cozytrade account, I've checked the account, at a glance the account in question has already been discussed in this thread, the problem is.

My understanding is that the account was created in 2013, meaning he knows very well about the actions of this forum, if indeed the account is hacked, the main owner will automatically create a topic in Meta to follow up on that account, of course with valid evidence, in this case there is not much that can be concluded, except: based on the presumption of changing hands, being sold or otherwise.

You can make accusation on your suspicion of other account that may have changed hands due to being hacked or sold, but if you don't have enough evidence then it's probably best you shut up or look for more evidence before starting the thread. This is an experience that I can share with you for the purpose of avoiding mistake.

There are a lot of people changing email and password for security purposes and that's not a really accurate reason to say an account has changed hand. Even if that is considered an early indication, but you need other evidence to accuse him.

But how do you suspect someone so quickly on this forum when you have only 5 posts including this one since registering your account October 29, 2022, 06:29:41 PM? This must be strange from you because I actually saw your announcement a few days ago. LOL

Let me join the Bitcoin Forum

I dare not accuse. My initial guess is that this account changed hands. With my request to be checked, who knows if someone has hacked this account. So this is just an attempt to save.

Much bigger problem than your account waking and suddenly writing in language never used before is the difference in English level before and after that break. What could have happened in two years that your English got so much worse?






Relax, I only tagged you with neutral and that shouldn't affect you much. Well, at least not joining bounty campaigns as that seems is your goal here.

You will find a lots of users who haven't post into their local board for a very long time. You just tagged me only based on some assumption not any evidence. Is that really fair to you to charge someone based on if, what if? I haven't done anything against forum rules. If you can prove i have done any violation of rules then you can put as many tag as you want.

Hah yeah, noticed that too first time I skimmed through post, that account started being active in Pilipinas board few years after creation but haven't really compared post quality. I have to agree with you, it doesn't seem that the same person who initially created the account is the one who is posting now.


True, but just in case I will leave neutral tag for now.

And learn a new language since immediately after the first post gap he started posting for the first time on the Pilipinas board in 20017 and somehow forgot he's from a different continent  No way it's the same person that opened the account here and for two years talked only about trading and arbitrage then suddenly regressed to 4 lines of empty talk.

That aside, he hasn't scammed anyone yet, he has no trust ratings, no business venture, and probably nobody gives a f* about this anymore.

OP, what do you suspect from the account? just because it has been inactive for a long time then change your email and password? yes, maybe this could be an indication of the account changing hands. either from hacking or trading.
but if you do it based solely on that evidence, I'm afraid you'll get more accounts in your accusations.
if you have evidence of the trade conversation or the account being sold via social media. you can continue. if you don't have it, it's better to stop.

To sign a message with bitcoin address can only help to know if an account is not compromise, but not useful if a farmed or old account is sold. I can build an account, stake an address with it on this forum, sell the account, give the wallet to the person I sold it, tell him how I have helped him to sign a message in the past and how he can reuse the address to sign another message, old account can be sold too like that. Best way sometimes is to check if the account change hands.

I checked a little bit and I didn't find any evidence of that, but I am sure that others will check it more thoroughly.


Yeah that is normal, to improve both posting style and language. Suspicious thing would be if your English suddenly regressed and I was mainly aiming at that.


You could eventually sign a message from your old address to remove any possible doubt (if you have access to any of the addresses that you used in the past) that account changed hands.

I got a message few days ago when signing up in a website("A Data Breach on a Site or App Exposed Your Password"). So i have decided to changes my primary email address and password to every site i registered for. I left BTT a long time ago so after changing password i thought why not make some post again. I know a lot better than 2018 so may be i can make something for myself and others. It's been a long time so it's not unusual that i can write in more matured way than before as my knowledge expands a lot. Haven't thought that this will caught some peoples attention.

I can send a message from my old registered email address("I do not want to share my old email address publicly") to any moderator if i really needs to prove my account ownership. I do not know what more to say and i think it is not any violation of rules to be active after a long time.

Did he evade ban? That should be one of the good reasons account that woke up should be reported for the woke up or new account he used to evade ban to be banned too, but you have no valid allegation against him yet, he did nothing wrong than just woke up. Or he is of low quality poster may be another reason, but which he only deserves neutral tag for people to notice.

What exactly looks suspicious (beside him waking up after few years break) as a change of email and password is not much of evidence. Has he changed the boards where he is usually writing, or maybe his post quality suddenly changed? You should put a little bit more effort and analyze his activity before asking others to check it out.

Bitcointalk Username: cozytrade
This account has changed email and password.
Looks suspicious.

https://i.imgur.com/I15xkfk.jpg

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Posts made per post deleted: 376
Work up  I: 11/3/2018 6:46:00 AM
Work up II: 10/18/2022 5:55:27 PM
Source: bpip.org

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Based on a search on ninjastic.space, the account with the username cozytrade last posted on 2018-02-25 14:29:28 UTC in the thread Bitcoin Discussion

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Thank you