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Thanks for posting this! I took @bellyrub off the bot tracker site right away once I found out about this but forgot that I still voted for zeartul as a witness. Just removed my vote - thank you for your work exposing this extreme abuse of the system.

Sigh, when I saw that he was selling bellyrub I should have requested my funds from bellyrubbank. Luckily it was only 20SBD, but that was like 10% or so of my income hear on Steemit. I had hesitations on doing it, but as a witness and leader in multiple communities, I thought it was an ok gamble.

Live and learn I guess.

You wouldn't have gotten your money back, request or not. I've submitted a ticket to Poloniex, I don't know if it will help, but it can't hurt to try:

https://steemit.com/scam/@trending/please-help-stop-zeartul-from-getting-away-with-his-scam-make-poloniex-aware-of-it

you are very correct. their account should be "0". $ 250 also shouldn't be to such scmers. new commers will get distrubed by such fellows. i saw your 1st post also. thanks for the alert and bringing awareness. thank you.

how are yor mother-sister and your vife ?

Such a shame for someone to take advantage of others. And yes, months ago I did vote for him for witness; removed it earlier today when I started hearing the horrendous stories.

I was fortunate NOT to have sent him any steem, sbd, etc ever. I feel for those who were scammed by his greed

If you have spare voting power, please flag his posts, he still has a lot of money available for potential payouts.

This will not be an effective strategy. If you want to stop it you should encourage people not to use bellyrub.

I already had requested them to be removed from the bot tracker tool and have alerted many communities of this.

Oh I know, I'm just saying that @dang007 is not shy of flag for flag, obviously. No one should bother unless they have a comparable amount of SP.

He had already showed his stripes. This comes as little surprise, but the two times in chat that I asked about him and his scammy behaviour from weeks ago, I just go "eh!?" remarks.

This really sucks! Sorry to any and everyone at a loss!!!!

What makes this extra delicate is the fact that the bidbot debate is in full force right now, so It's not only right of you to speak up about this issue, I would say it's almost necessary to the health of the platform.

I would like to see other bot operators denouncing Scamatul as well... put some distance between the service he offered and what the service is supposed to be about.

I'll resteem too... put in my two cents, thanks for speaking up and caring Markymark