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RE: Exposing the "Steemit Defense League" - Bought Accounts on Microworkers w/Screenshots
I expect these accounts were all registered through Steemit, Inc... specifically with the intention of getting the automatic 15SP delegation.
The purpose of using microworkers was that you can only open one account per phone number.... so you pay hundreds of people a few cents to create ONE account each, and then transfer it to you. Bingo! You have hundreds of accounts with 15SP delegations each. Which — at current prices — amounts to flags/upvotes on the order of 0.001 Steem at 100% strength.... and a fraction of that, at 6% or 8% or whatever is left after leaving 1000 flags.
Meaningless, by itself... but 300 of those set loose with a singular focus... it becomes "something."
=^..^=
@curatorcat is exactly right. Rather than buying accounts, you get other people to each make a single account. So all of those real people who make accounts are technically not doing anything wrong, and probably none of them knew they were contributing to anything negative. I think you don't get the delegation when you pay for a second (or more) account, but you do when it is your first account. So, technically, all of those were the first accounts for those people, so they got the usual delegation.