Fighting Abuse on Steem: Mass Art Fraud: @ellla. The role of country curators to prevent it.

in WORLD OF XPILAR3 years ago

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Hello my dear Steemians and Art Fans,

 

After relatively long period of quite time there is again the case of Deception that we have noticed as user herself posted in „World of Xpilar“ community.

It is a routine for us to verify the users who posting Visual Art posts, because we would like to reward creativity and originality and as we all know Art was always a field that people try to duplicate and sell as “original” because original was valued.

This time we start with this user @ellla, she is Nigerian

 


@ellla


 

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here is the Introduction post

 

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Sounds really good and seems like the user knows that it is important to respect the intellectual property of others and also not to lie. Also notice that she says that she got know Steemit via her brother @alandchi, later on we will return to that user too.

 

Now look at the blog

 

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Deception case 1: @ellla

 

This is the first post that I have seen yesterday, what made me suspicious this is typical

 

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After a short search we have found an original source that is the web site tutorial:

 

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Deception case2: @ellla


 

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The original found in many sources including

 

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Deception case 3: @ellla


 

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That is Original Drawing and there is the same signature but then of author:

 

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Deception case 4: @ellla


 

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Here is the original source from CanStock Photo:

 

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Deception case 5: @ellla


 

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Here is the original source:

 

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Deception case 6: @ellla


 

This time the user even put her name on the Original work that was stolen from other author

 

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Here is the original work of Emil Gilfanow, that even was cropped a bit too:

 

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Deception case 7: @ellla


 

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It is pure lie and the original drawing is easy to find, the user even did not bother to delete the name of original user

 

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Attention to Community Curators and Newcommer Community


 

Here I would like to ask @steemcurator01 the opinion. We all know about Steemcurator accounts such as @steemcurator03 till @steemcurator08 they are under the control of Community curators belonging to different countries and also Greeters, Newcomer communities and Steem POD.

 

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She has been verified by @ngoenyi, has been welcomed by @ghostfacer99, @arrowgate and

 

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Role of Country Curators behind @steemcurators03 to 08


 

But this is what we have observed in this particular case:

The user posting Mass Art Fraud since beginning of the account September 2021, received twice upvote from Community curator and SC03.

  • The user posted 4 times the same Introductory posts: first at very beginning and
  • Other 3 posts with the same content word in word 17 and 18 days ago those two received support from Community Leader and SC03.

@steemcurator01 is it allowed to curate recycled posts with the same value of @steemcurator03 in my opinion that is misusing the intention of Country Curator accounts.

The accounts SC03 to 06 have been given to countries and communities but meanwhile maybe it is a time to circulate them too to avoid such situation and give the opportunity other communities to reward their users.

It would be good to hear the opinion of other users, please feel free and we can open the discussion

 


 

If you like what we do, please support our Initiative, it takes a lot of time and research to collect the evidence and we are working hard on keeping Steem blockchain free of Plagiarism and Abuse.

 

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As always, faithfully yours we are Guardians of steem,

@stef1 and @myskye

 

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Thank you for finding this one @stef1.

Interesting to look at the posts of this connected person as well - @alandchi


@ngoenyi @cryptokannon - can you look to improve your plagiarism checking in Newcomers Community.


#club5050 😀

Yes, there is similarity and I was going to look closer at the behavior of that user too.
Thank you for sharing our opinion, the community leaders should be more cautious about their members especially if they invited the people.

 3 years ago (edited)

Noted sir, thank you for alerting me to this.

It is quiet unfortunate that I was the one that verified the said @ellla.

I have taken note of that and I will be more careful. More and more impostors are creeping in.

I verified because she needed to be verified and I didn't know she is an imposter.

I do check for plagiarism before verification. But all the same, I will be more careful.

Thank you so much dear boss @steemcurator01 for the mention.

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Moreover you can check my account posts I am working as a private investigator I have highlighted many times to my seniors that about plagiarism every thing is getting down I have also emailed in September 21 at jovel2000 you here I am giving the screenshot.
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I do believe that if this section isn't improved it will affect this whole system as now many users are practicing plagiarism as well as account/vote forming by creating multiple IDs.
And from the day Endingplagiarism stepped down there is no one else who may listen our reports on Plagiarism and scam cases !
It's pretty nice that today you mentioned me here and I got opportunity to tell you all these matter.
I am hopeful that you will make some good steps.
Yes I want to work for the betterment I know how much it hurts when original content creator get nothing but others with copy paste gets support !
I am waiting for your kind words if i spoken something wrong I am sorry for that !
Thanks for reading out my opinion :)
Respected @stef1 !

Hi @arrowgate, you are a member of Steem POD and Mosquito Squishers communities therefore, I think it is better if you discuss with the members of those teams. I have never come across yourself, only during this case.

I belong to World of Xpilar community and we are checking those users who do fraud and appear in our community. As you might know we have more than 14 thousand members and also more than 600 active users. Therefore, there is no time for me to check other cases throughout Steemit platform only if they revealed themselves publishing in our Community.

I do not think I am a person you should write if you found a plagiarism. I am sorry for that. The email is a filter that let through emails that is of the interests set up there.

Firstly thank you wholeheartedly that you have listened, yes I know and also in world of xpilar I have also caught many Plagiarism cases and I have reported in mosquito squshiers but as I earlier mentioned that now no one checks my reports and my only purpose was to highlight again this matter.
Yes I know the workload you are facing and doing great job but as i didn't got replied in those communities where i highlighted all these matters and therefore i also mentioned @steemcurator01 in this regard two times but didn't got any kind of response.
Anyways thanks again for your kind words.

Thank you @stef1 for finding things that are not fair to do in steemit, I feel more plagiarism is found in steemit and then more original content that is not appreciated is seen. there are some plagiarism that get very high votes and hopefully things like this should be tightened to eradicate plagiarism.

Hopefully the steemit team will further tighten the bad habits of people who abuse the steemit platform.

There will be always people who will try to go the easy way and present the stuff of others as their own. But we, ordinary users need to be more cautious about that and if any suspicion then avoid supporting such users.

Yes, this will be very good for steemit and for steemit users who always work hard to publish their original content. I hope this will be a lesson.

Thank you for taking time to fish all these out. It must have taken you a great deal.

I will try and fish the said person out since she is residing in my city of residence

Thank you @ngoenyi for taking action.

 3 years ago 

Nice articles keep it up

Thank you.

This really helps, thank you @stef1 because it is unfair for the writers who do efforts , thank for giving value to original works ,

It is nice to see you around and I am glad that you are supporting our way of thinking, we all need to strive to be honest and to make sure that there is no deception tolerated.

Yes sir it is not just a rule, but a good discipline and it protects each one of us. Thank you
again ,😊🙏

Admirable, la habilidad para la búsqueda de plagio, muy buen trabajo. Dios permita a ustedes la sabiduría de seguir encontrando personas que abusan tomando lo ajeno y haciendolo pasar por suyo, obteniendo recompensas que no deben tener. 👍Sigan adelante que se que van a mejorar

Thank you for supporting our work:)

 3 years ago 

hello dear friend @ stef1 good afternoon
It's a shame that this continues to happen; Luckily there are people like you who do not allow it; You're doing a great job. Congratulations
I take this opportunity to wish you a happy start to the week

Thank you @jlufer it is like never ending story, but we are happy to be able to catch those users :)

really support the originality and originality of every post

Thank you for your supportive words :)

I am a village boy who is far from the city, and still unfamiliar with the world, virtual and digital technology, as well as a beginner in steemit, really looking forward to direction, guidance, and support, from people who have been successful, in steemit, like you, thank you many.