Fighting Abuse on Steem: Mass Deception and Plagiarism @saber20
Hello my dear Steemians,
Today we wanted to present you this user @saber20 who we are observing for a long time. We were trying to identify who is he and where he belongs too but it is impossible, because none of the posts have anything personal. His all posts are taken from different articles and all the pictures are from Internet. I always wonder why people do so. In the case if hteir posts would be receiving high Upvote then I could say that they do it for rewards but his posts received only zero at the end. But the guy is still doing the same
I think his whole blog is fake and who knows if he also stolen the image on his blog?
But let's start from begining:
He is posting a lot in World of Xpilar community, while reading I had an impression that the texts are rom professionally written articles but for some of them I could not find anything. As many who works with searching for Plagiarism know that such search machine also have a function to change teh text and make it "unique" therefore, many plagiarists also using this function I have started antother type of search and found few matches where hte person really changed the sentences and made it invisible for search machines.
The Cheaters are clever, but I only wonder if that all worth to spend the time and efforts, is it not easier to create your own post instead?
Here is the post both picture and text are taken from Internet:
Pay attention to the area that I highlighted and compare with the Article from Internet
This is an original article where the user has picked up few statements and composed a post
Once we have found the first match it then became easier as we knew how he thinks
Luckily he has taken teh same name of article and made it easy to catch him
Here he once again combined an image from one Internet source and the text from another
Here is the text, that actually originally had 5 reasons: Why Turkey Remains Top Hotspot, the user named it 3 reasons but in texts forgot to change 5 to 3 and abruptly ended the sentence with the word "Switzerland" but there is a continuation of the sentences as you can see
*Here is the original Article:
With this result of our Investigation we would like to draw the attention of @steemcurator01 and Curators in other communities and and ask to be aware about such tricks too when your search machine will tell you that there is no match found or that there is 100% unique, it is in reality could be very clever plagiarist who knows how to trick out the search machine.
The user will be banned from "World of Xpilar" community but he may go to the other community and try the same.
Um einen eigenen Post zu schreiben muss man sich selbst Gedanken machen davor scheuen solche Accounts . Was für den einen leicht ist fällt dem anderen schwer , zudem ist es nicht jedem gegeben neidlos des andern Leistung anzuerkennen (gut ausgearbeitete Post) wer da aber meint mithalten zu wollen es aber nicht kann kommt da eventuell auch auf solche Ideen des Kopieren von fremden Eigentum aber meist ist der Grund, der Ran auf den Dollar 💲
VgA
Ich werde es nie verstehen wieso die Leute so etwas machen. Da verschwendet man so viel Zeit mit der Suche und muss dann noch den ganzen Text so verändern das der original Text nicht mehr erkennbar ist. Letztendlich gibt es auch keine Garantie dass man etwas dafür bekommt.
Einfacher wäre es eine Post mit den eigenen Worten zu erstellen und vielleicht mit einem oder ein Paar Photos aus Pixabay und Co zu dekorieren,…. natürlich mit einem Link zur Source.
Aber ja, einfach kann jeder :)
Hi @stef1 ! I'm asking you to check one more person. I think his articles and his account are suspicious https://steemit.com/@far4alex
If I'm wrong, I apologize. But many photos are widely used on the Internet, and at home he puts his logo on them
From the first glance he looks like spammer, I would not be surprised if everything that is in his blog is out of Internet. Will look closer...
Oh no, he cheated on me. I included one of his posts in my journal. I suspected it might be spam, but a simple Google check showed that the test and the picture were unique. Now I looked in his account and 😱. Shame on me ....
They become clever, developing too, there are many tricks that is why we see only hte part of iceberg over the water surface, more clever guys are still there and it is difficult to catch them.
Investigated and now banned for plagiarism 👍
Not surprised. Unfortunately, the Steem community has been weakened by cartel and collusive behaviour that is devaluing the contribution of users with low quality and plagiarism
The fact that people can create their account for free makes it attractive for such spammer to create new accounts again and again that will make it happen.
So true. A long way from the dream of steem. . Thank you
And a classic low quality contributor is @mukada
A creative person! A very skilled Internet user.
This is, of course, a joke.
I think this user probably doesn't even have one account, but several.
I also have a suspicion, but why hell they spend so much energy for such shit?
I recently wrote a post that often the cost of writing a post on Steam is higher than the reward. Many girls have written that they are sitting at home without work and are even happy to write for free. And what do they live on?
Write your post, spend time processing photos and get an estimate of less than a dollar for it. This is the same case.
But to get absolutely zero!!! Is this probably masochism? 😂😂😂
I sold my steem a few years ago for $5000. Would
Be worth about $30000 now but glad I sold with some level of conscience
Excellent work @stef1. It's crazy the lengths some of these plagerists go to. As you say, it'd be easier to just create some content! The mind boggles...