FRAUD ALERT: I found out who was impersonating me on Steemit chat: @bilalhaider.

in #abuse7 years ago (edited)

EDIT: HE HAS NOW ADMITTED EVERYTHING DIRECTLY (see comments). My agreement with him was to make a public apology post on his blog, detailing everything. I will stop flagging his content when that happens.

(Apologies in advance: due to all the screen caps, this post is a bit of an assault on the eyes as far as formatting goes. I request your forbearance.)

I did not wish to post this until I was almost positive, and there can be little doubt now. First, let me give you an example of what was posted:


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^He spelled his name wrong, I guess.



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I apologize to @krazykrista for reposting this retardation, but I think it is important to call this guy out. Note the lack of capitalization and the use of emojis.


^These are the types of things the "mystery user" was posting using my picture and slightly altered profile name.

I will reiterate this point later, before I share our private chat for comparison, but notice the writing style used in the two phony profiles, "Armina" (directly below) and "kafkanarchy82". Also, notice the admission in the photo below that "Bilal is still here."


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Same to @tecnosgirl.



##################### BILAL HAIDER

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From his blog. Note the lack of punctuation and spaces before question marks.


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Notice the self-description and writing style.

####################### BILAL HAIDER

This is the guy I am referring to, who I assert has made the above phony accounts "kafkanarchy82" and "Armina" on Steemit Chat.



A FEW THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGES ABOVE:


  • Frequent use of emojis.
  • Never capitalizes "i."
  • Space before question marks.
  • Admission that he is "Bilal" in Armina post.

Here are several more examples to cross-reference. Finally, I have included snippets from our private chat.


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^Space before question marks.



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^Emojis.



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^Random, mid-sentence punctuation and space before question marks.



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^Threatens that Bilal is a "coder" (programmer).



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^Random, mid-sentence punctuation and space before question marks.



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^Emojis, lack of capitalization.






Please compare these to the following screen caps of our private conversation:


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^Emojis, random, mid-sentence punctuation, lack of capitalization, admits knowing who created "Armina" profile.


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Nope. It is not settled. I am not gong to waste all my SP flagging this guy, but certainly some of it. If you are still not convinced, go check out his profile HERE. I don't think it is cool to pretend to be someone else using their picture. To lie about it or refuse to tell when confronted is also not cool. I hope this guy will be run off the platform swiftly.

~KafkA

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)

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ok yes. that me .. you are right i am wrong .. i did everything now please stop this.

I won't stop flagging until you complete the agreement. I want a public post on your blog detailing everything and apologizing. And also for the shit you just said a few seconds ago in the chat to me. Good luck.

I helped out. We must do our best to stop people who are disrespectful and deceitful!

oh man... fraudsters and poop-faces everywhere!

but I see resistance is growing! Keep up the fight and thanks for making your findings public! I know it feels weird to accuse someone with just "indicative" evidence, no matter how obvious it is!

I snapped up this username because a poop-face stole this nick and pretended to be me in DMT forums, which I haven't been posting on since DMT world went down, or so. I didn't bother looking to deeply at the poop-face's poop, but they obviously were banking on my reputation. To do that here would be seriously offensive to me. That's why I grabbed @elfspice (Originally I signed up as @l0k1). This is the real elfspice, of yore, in Hive and DMT world days.

In case anyone who knows @l0k1 wondered where he went. HERE I AM! (just notice how l0k1 only basically resteems elfspice??)

Holy shit! Great to know.

Also, I am following a strict regime now in my voting... 4 posts a day get 100%. It's pure luck who it's going to be. I just followed all my followers so I may spot them posting something good, and it'll win them about 70 cents. You won #3 today :)

I've never seen this level of scamming and spamming since i started last year.

People's patience with this is wearing thin, it needs to come to an end.

absolutely! it's good to see these cases getting so much attention lately (or maybe that's just perception bias because I started paying more attention?!)

The flagging seems to be working well, his most recent posts lost visibility. Not to mention the reputation downgrade.

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This is an investigation well done and you are correct, it is bilalhaider. It's good to spread the word though, but I doubt he'll keep up with this nonsense much longer.

It's a shame he picked your nickname to be used, though he couldn't do even that properly. He had at least 2 other fake nicknames he used to "troll" the chat.

Ughh.. what a horrible thing to go through!

I hope that the guy disappears now for good.

Thanks. Me too. I tried to reason with him and even help him start again. Didn't work out, though. Can't have this type of stuff going on.

What does he stand to gain by running you down? This is interesting, I've seen my share of trolls, but this is taking trolling to the absurd limit.

He chose me as I was a friend of those he was talking trash to, apparently.

People will soon run him off here as his MO is not needed here.

I would encourage everyone to throw a few flags his way.

Yeah, that will go a long way to putting a stop to this.

it's incredible how some people will waste their time lol

Lol. Dude, it truly is.

so many fake people try to scam now days i hate scammer

Not cool at all :(