Welcome to STEEM @qiortate12, @qiortate13, @qiortate14, @qiortate15, @qiortate16, @qiortate17, @qiortate18, @qiortate19, and @qiortate20 [which are totally not abusing @steem's delegations for new users]

in #steemit7 years ago

Looking over the list of all newly created accounts of last week, I stumbled upon these nine accounts sharing the same prefix. So let's look at what @qiortate12 is up to:

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Ah, he is very busy at voting and doing nothing else (didn't create a single post). So let's look at one of the posts he is voting for. It's one of the comments for this post: https://steemit.com/art/@nollza30/askasiya-predators-2010-art

Looking at the comments of this (two month old) post a pattern emerges. This post has a bunch of comments, all containing of a single image only and they are all upvoted by 50+ accounts that only have the 15 SP delegated by @steem.

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So basically this is just one example on how easy the sign-up process to steemit can be exploited. Please @steem, revoke the delegations to fillza, cnolza, and quiortate* and give them to real users! And while you're at it, get the sign-up process right. I don't understand, how these obviously scamming accounts slip to a manual validation process.

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There must be money to be made from this scam. It could be interesting to figure out how much.