Potential SCAM warning / Uwaga możliwy SCAM

imperfect-one (62)in #scam • 7 years ago

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Dear Steemit friends, once again I want to warn you before potential SCAM on Steemit.

Ludziska, po raz kolejny chciałbym ostrzec Was przed czymś, co ewidentnie wygląda jak SCAM.

First I got this message on Steemit chat:

Najpierw dostałem wiadomość na czacie:

This account really exists and have 5000+ followers, but if you will take a good look at some of those accounts, you will see that those followers are all the same person. These are fake accounts and not real people.

To konto naprawdę istnieje i ma ponad 5000 followersów, ale jeśli przyjrzycie się bliżej chociaż niektórym z nich, to zauważycie dość łatwo, że to wszystkie konta to jedna i ta sama osoba. To fałszywe konta a nie prawdziwi ludzie.

There are some ways to connect the accounts such as date of creation and who created them. Steemd provides such data. You would have to look at each account on Steemd and compare. Besides that, there is no obvious reason why so many people would follow this user. The number of followers is his only success on the platform, he does not even post anything. If this doesn't convince you, you can judge by the reputation that this is not a trustworthy character in the community.

Istnieje kilka sposobów na to, żeby doszukać się powiązań pomiedzy tymi followersami, takie jak data utworzenia czy informacja kto poszczególne konta stworzył. Steemd dostarcza takich informacji, wystarczy wyszukiwać konta i je porównywać. Poza tym liczba followersów to jedyny sukces tego konta na platformie, nie pisze on nawet własnych postów. Jeśli to Was nie przekonuje, to spójrzcie na reputację tego konta - czy taka wartość znajdowałaby się przy koncie godnym zaufania?

But the chat is not the only place where they could reach you. I also got the message in my wallet few days ago:

Czat nie jest jedynym miejscem gdzie mogą Cię dopaść. Dostałem także wiadomość w swoim portfelu kilka dni temu:

Not enough? There is also an external service! http://resteemservice.com/

Mało? Istnieje też zewnętrzny serwis tego kolesia! http://resteemservice.com/

Of course you will get what you payed for - resteem for tousands of his "followers", or 200 votes from his bots. All without any value.

Oczywiście dostaniecie to, za co zapłacicie - resteem posta aby był widoczny dla kilku tysięcy "osób" lub 200 głosów od botów. Wszystko bezwartościowe.

How this is possible? There was a time before Steemit required mobile and email to create an account. And back then it was very easy to create lots of accounts...

Jak to możliwe? Był czas kiedy Steemit nie wymagał ani numeru telefonu ani adresu email przy zakładaniu konta. Wtedy było bardzo łatwo utworzyć ogromną ilość kont...

So look out guys. This is a huge action, just look how many people are paying for this...

Także uważajcie gdzie wydajecie dolary. To jest gruba akcja, zobaczcie jak wiele osób za to płaci...

Appreciate the content? VOTE UP, RESTEEM and FOLLOW@imperfect-one

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7 years ago in #scam by imperfect-one (62)

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alcik (52) 7 years ago (edited)

The funny (or not) thing is that in history of thepunisherr's transfers there are few transfers of 0.001SBD to the user @brandonk with memo like this:

You're worthless, powerless, and can't touch me.You're worthless, powerless, and can't touch me.You're worthless, powerless, and can't touch me.You're worthless, powerless, and can't touch me.You're worthless, powerless, and can't touch me.You're worthless, powerless, and can't touch me....

And so on. I've searched latest @brandonk posts and I've found that he also noticed this spam/scam practices and wrote about it here:
https://steemit.com/spam/@brandonk/steemit-spam-scumbags-or-avoiding-collusion-with-crypto-crooks

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imperfect-one (62) 7 years ago

Ok... Should I expect the same? What do you think? ;)

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alcik (52) 7 years ago

Do you mean, free money with some 'demotivating' rubbish? I have no idea, but nothing bad in some free money, right? :-)

But if you are talking about his/her 'flagging attacks' it is hard to say. I do not know and fully understand steem enough (yet) but I think there are no technological obstacles and no built-in protections. So it totally depends on the guy. If I was in his/her shoes I would totally ignore you or others trying to spread the word. There is no way it can be stopped, so it would be waste of time and energy. And fighting it can draw some attention. For him/her it is much better to continue the spam/scam business and earn money before someone tries to stop it.

And the most interesting part for me is how it all would be resolved. Hundreds of bot accounts surely can have some influence on steem ecosystem, so it should be fixed (somehow).

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