Animal Farm | The Eagle, The Bear, The Horse and the Mountain

Puppet Gallery

A few months ago, I posted about @sandrino’s - 6th day comment voting circle jerk. After exposing this practice, it appeared that @sandrino decided to power down the main account which had about 70k sp.

https://steemit.com/abuse/@v4vapid/sandrino-s-6th-day-sock-puppet-circle-jerk

Since, we know that serial scammer @sandrino had previously moved from one scam posting and self-voting 10 plagiarized WSL surf videos a day to 6th day upvoting comments of several alt accounts, we could safely assume that we probably hadn’t seen the end of this scammer’s bullshit.

And truth be told... it wasn’t the end.

@sandrino simply created a new set of accounts, which we’ll call the “Animal Farm” circle jerk, to continue draining the rewards pool.

The Animal Farm

It appears that @sandrino is now an animal lover.
There are now 2 primary voting accounts.

@aguia – The Eagle // @urso – The Bear

The Eagle and Bear vote exclusively on 2 comment only accounts

@cavalo – The Horse // @montanha – The Mountain

For more details you can browse these accounts here:

https://steemworld.org/@aguia
https://steemworld.org/@urso

The @sandrino account has been powering down for about 3 months.

Both @aguia and @urso were created in April 2018.

My post exposing this circle jerk was made in March or April 2018.

Before powering down @sandrino had approximately 70k sp.

Today:

@aguia = 40k sp
@urso = 38k sp

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Circle Jerk Power Down

While powering down @sandrino stayed quite active continuing to create fresh alts in order to comment farm.

Here’s a list of @sandrino’s main comment farming crew:

@tigree (created April 2018)
@passarosbrasil (created April 2018)
@bravobravo (created March 2018)

Some good work by @abusereports shut down @bravobravo's comment spam.

There are more accounts associated with this activity, such as @falcaoo, but for the purposes of this post we'll stick to the main instances of abuse.

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Wallet Transfers to Binance

All of the following accounts make transfers of STEEM to the same Binance account with the exception of @aguia and @urso that are put in place to upvote the comments while attempting to avoid detection.

@sandrino – decrypto8 - 101319957

@tigree – decrypto8 - 101319957
@bravobravo - decrypto8 – 101319957
@passarosbrasil - decrypto8 – 101319957

@cavalo - decrypto8 – 101319957
@montanha - decrypto8 – 101319957

Comment Farming Examples

Comments made by @tigree and @bravobravo (aka @sandrino) and self-upvoted make no attempt whatsoever to make realistic comments and opt instead for the generic -

“Upvoted”

This identical strategy is continued by @cavalo and @montanha

Here are a few examples for your viewing pleasure -

Attempts to Hide Abusive Activity

Before I made this post I wanted to be certain as to what was going on here. I observed that @aguia and @sandrino were upvoting the same @tigree (tiger) garbage comments and decided to see what would happen if I flagged a few of them.

Immediately, @aguia unvoted all of its votes to the Tiger in an effort to distance the account from the circle-jerk. Too late, it was already clear what was going on.

For good measure, additional regular users received upvotes out of the blue in an order to coverup the scam.

Leading up to the @tigree flags, @aguia's regular voting habit of voting exclusively to the puppet accounts can be observed.

What wasn't clear to me was that the Eagle had only half of @sandrino's sp, so i decided to hold-off on exposing this abuse until I could locate the other half. Finally, the Bear @urso awoke from it's hibernation and showed its hand.

Account Power Down to Account Power Up

You can trace @sandrino's power downs and transfers at regular intervals that correspond exactly with @urso's powering up and receipt of Steem transfers through binance accounts.

The most recent amount transferred to binance from @sandrino is 5,707 STEEM and the very same day @urso receives 5,707 STEEM and powers up.

I'm going to tag - @steemcleaners and @spaminator to point out this little operation as well as drop a link in the Steemcleaners Discord.

Summary

I spoke with several users in the Brazilian community that explained that the @sandrino account does not interact with the community at all. Members of the community have reached out and asked the account owner to participate more in their community and earn rewards by curating Brazilian content. A brief attempt was made to engage in the community through curation but it was very short lived. This is quite evident in the voting history of all these accounts.

Game Recognize Game

After the circle jerk was exposed 3 months ago, the account owner reached out to another infamous account on the platform in hopes of gaining support.

Sums things up rather nicely, don't you think?

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