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RE: Case 8: Stumbling over a few fake talents again

in #steemit-police7 years ago

I found a spam scam dealing with possible 100 accounts.
The Winter Soldier Living in STEEMit

After I made the post, that post got some of the same type of accounts doing upvotes. Talk about ironic. Anyway, clicking through the accounts, I somehow managed to end up on @ecoworld . An account created last year that tried to do a comment spam using numbers for each comment.

The ecoworld account is in the process of powering down.
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I don't know how it is all connected. But, it would seem that there are a lot of accounts that are triggered by a code word in posts and they comment on those posts.

Keep up the good work, detective.

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Yes, I am having this network (spanning at least 5000 accounts) on my desk as well.

Luckily, the income stream of this operation has been cut off by 95% percent already. These accounts are having trouble continuing comment-farming due to initiatives like @sadkitten and are moving over towards what I'd call curation-farming. A lot of people have been surprised to see waves of upvotes hitting their posts unexpectedly.

I am still working on connecting the dots about this one, I will post about it soon.

looking forward to your post, as we talked about :)

I have the same on one of my accounts, the bot master shifted from own comment upvotes to may random posts upvotes. As @sherlockholmes says kinda curation spam.

You can take a look into the extended history of @ecoworld here:

@sherlockholmes' Case 9: The @ecoworld conspiracy