Topic: Tens/hundreds of accounts - Bot malfunction? (Read 349 times)

The team doesn't even have a proper ANN thread yet; it's an actual startup based in China, unlike most ICOs. They are, however, pretty naive when it comes to Bitcointalk. Someone could have tricked them into hiring such a service under false pretenses (they were tricked already regarding something else, but I'm not going to go into the details of that). Since I don't know what exactly the cause of this is, I can't exclude any possibilities. However, given what I just said and my experience with my contact I am in strong belief that this isn't the case.
Keep in mind that it is also possible that an enemy of Vena or me could be doing this. The Telegram campaign was under attack before the thread got attacked.

Yes, of course. A DDoS is possible with anything that asks for resources or sends them to the server for processing. However, given the rate-limiting, cloudflare and the type of resources (plaintext posts) I don't see how it could ever become viable.

Are you kidding me? My bounties have by far the highest rejection rate[1] in the campaigns that have the highest number of cheaters (Telegram && Content). Content currently being at over 70%, and TG over 60% (still being processed).

That's also one of the possibilities.

As I have just written above, I highly doubt that. It is more likely that it is either: a) Random bumping (post in multiple threads to avoid detection); b) Attack targeted at me.

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Update: Some numbers are in for Telegram.
Total entries: 2949
Rejected entries: 2666[2]
Rejection rate: ~90.4%

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[1] At least from what I have seen so far, especially content stuff (e.g. duplicate submissions across different domains are often accepted).
[2] Quite a lovely number.

@marlboroza In the past, I've also found some "fake" accounts with fake eth address or fake social media activities.

@Lauda, also the accounts I've found on the past using the same patterns of those accounts where they post different fake addresses on every proof of authentication.

Since like this user https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/kyliebnorahb4944-2391504 is using all fake data, from:

btc profile
fake social media
fake eth

We can assume they are just bounty bumping services.

Edit, actually this storm of accounts are using real eth addresses

Maybe most likely from others random users? like this one

Yes, most likely accounts are created for ICO bumping service. Most of mentioned account activity almost same (21). They only post proof of authentication post, they never submitted any bounty report still now. I believe they are avoiding post deletion.  I have experience on this thread, I am reporting daily at least 2/3 page. They are using same methods almost. Quoting full thread and with nice project.

Just Shocked again !!
That's an abusive attack to Lauda (as a bounty manager) because mostly thought she is not checking bounties she overrolls. I think the abuser willing to complete destroying your reputation and not just willing to cheat campaigns. This is so dumb to make such a bot error; I think bot-owner knows what he is doing (just a thought).
I think you (Lauda) will face a lot of bounty related issues now you are nolonger in DT.
Anyway, Mods have to quick react over this storm against Lauda; it's still one of the few assets of this forum.

Someone is trying to cheat campaigns? I just don't see how. Latest post:

Nothing is real. I am not tech person, is ddos possible this way?

Thread (link to last page): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5031375.2200

What caught my attention are the usernames after taking a random look at the last page:
Most people should spot that there is a coded pattern there (at least from the trailing numbers). After taking a closer look, two things are obvious:

1) The spreadsheet number that the user posts (although it is sometimes different):
2) The addresses being posted. Taken from the last page (111):

Previous page (110):

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There are 13 more entries on the page before that if I search for the prefix and so on. I don't have time to list all the accounts/look for them right now (sheets are being attacked too obviously). If anyone is interested, just look for the prefix '0x7eC9e5194cB47dF'.

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I have no idea what's going on here though. I've sent this thread to a mod.