Plagiarism Hunt in Cryptoacadamy Assignments - 17/04/2021

So, the cryptoacadamy assignments are in full swing now. Guess what? The plagiarists are also back. With numerous scammers finding new ways to leach the reward pool. Today, I will bring 3 such users along with proof of plagiarism.

• @nypho (AKA NYMPHO): This is a veteran user account that was created back in 2017. However, it remained inactive during the whole bear market.

  The account sprung back to life when the cryptoacadamy was in full swing(before the 2-week break). The suspicious trigger was when this user did not participate in any other events such as the diary game, etc.

  Once the cryptoacadamy restarted, the user is active once again. Another trigger point was that this user used to post only English content previously. However, this has now been changed to French.

Plagiarized article	Original source	Professor
Post	Original	@yohan2on
Post	Original	@alphafx
Post	Original	@imagen

The last article of this user has been plagiarized but this goes undetected in the plagiarization detection tool because it seems to be rephrased using one of the numerous available online tools. So, finding the original source of this took a lot more time than I initially expected. In the above screenshot, the article on the left is that of @dhramps. On the right is the translated version of the article posted by @nypho. As you can see the similarities between the two should be sufficient to prove that even the last article has been plagiarized by this user.

All the other articles are just direct translations of the source article.

• @kimmelgarner: This has been a user that has been on my radar for a while now. Every time there is a high stake contest ongoing, this user comes out of hibernation to post articles in the Russian language. Finding the original source of the articles posted by this user is harder than most others. This is because this user picks up a non-English article and then goes on to translate it to Russian.

  I would not be sharing the method I used to track this user over here in the open because the plagiarists might find ways to overcome this. However, anyone with the private investigator status can reach out on Discord and I would be ready to share the method I used to catch this user.

Plagiarized article	Original source	Professor
Post	Original	@yohan2on
Post	Original	@alphafx

Both these posts can be converted to English using Google Translate and verified for plagerism. Again, this is another way the scammer is evading the plagiarism detection tools.

• @grace234: This user's reputation might below for now. However, we need to ensure that no one votes for such plagerized content.

Post	Original	Professor
Post	Original Post	@yohan2on

Well, thats all for now. I would request all professors to remove their votes/rating from these user's posts to avoid it from being upvoted from @steemcurator02 or any other users.

Since finding such plagiarism does take a long time, I would like to extend my help to the crypto professors in identifying them. If you find any article and you feel like you have read the same content previously, just tag me in the comment section of the post and I will find the original source of the article.

Cc:-
@steemcurator01
@steemcurator02

Cc:-
@endingplagiarism, @kiwi-crypto, @neerajkr03, @sapwood, @abcallen, @alphafx, @kouba01, @fendit, @imagen, @pelon53, @yousafharoonkhan, @levycore, @yohan2on, @stream4u