Case 5: @elena2017 is just as fake as @katrinart
Accusation:
The real Ekaterina (the artist being impersonated by @katrinart) notified a fellow artist on vk.com about her steemit case.
The account @elena2017 is running the same scam!
The Findings:
Are straight forward this time.
The real Elena Malva has already posted a statement on vk.com clearly stating that it is NOT herself here!
The russian of the OP translates to:
Dear friends! Help me find a thief and make him "ata-ta"! I was sent a personal link to my profile (and this is fake) in social network! Someone post from my face my drawings in the pseudo-social network Stimit !!! Account @ elena2017
SchA will be a very evil smile, I am indignant! 😠😾👈and even a cat is evil, that's it!
I hope the VOR SENSES OUR MISTAKE and DELETE this account!
Yes, I'm naive optimist, sho do it
Ato suddenly I have a full name, home address and even the card number of this person's private bank! Che, well, you never know, suddenly "
And then she comments humorously about this post
And I'm flying to Turkey for a week))) and I do not have a passport yet))))
I have not yet heard back why she drew the portrait for @stellabelle, maybe the impersonater comissioned the real Elena Malva for it?! And maybe we will be able to dig very deep on that one. Let's see!
For now I just wanted to get this information out quickly!
It is quite possible that many of the crafts and art posts resteemed between these accounts are fake, too. Be cautios, I'll keep digging!
Find the real Elena Malva on facebook, instagram or vk
yours,
Sherlock
edit: the real Elena confirms, that she did the steemian portraits as commissions:
I have a good indication now about who might be behind all of this, stay tuned!
Have you witnessed similar things yourself?
Don't just ignore it and move on... let me know!
This was really a huge scam as my portrait was even made for me for free. I am really disappointed. I thought i had made a real friend. Thanks for sharing @sherlockholmes
I simply can't believe it!!! I was following "her" and upvoting. Amazing work anyway keep it up
Ooh I love this post!
Damn frauds.
Oh my gosh, I'm actually following this apparently fake account. I see lots is being done to destroy the account already. I'll just throw in a few flags for good measure aswell before unfollowing.
Well done on your investigative work!
I knew this stuff was happening on Steemit. It would be so easy to take material from a lesser known person, even photos and just screengrab them as scrub them of any details you eant to obscure and post them as your own. Then your entire STEEM-SCHEME is just to win followers and Upvotes and not to create content. Basically managing someone instead of being the creator and the manager all in one as, I assume, most of us are. I actually posted about this a while back, what if someone was posting plagiarized material, how would they be found out and I was told steemcleaner would find it. But as anyone with a B.S. would know all ypu have to do is read a journal and simply wrote put the same information in tour own style and you will not be seen to have any patterns similar with plagiarism. I suppose with art this is more obvious but still I think there is much plagiarism going on and leavin people to sinply game the system by focusing all energy on upvotes and SP. Perhaps this site is not as genuine as we all would like it to be. I also think all too often "popular" people on Steemit get huge upvotes by powerful people in return for vote reciprocity and their followers and their posts are very lacking in any really valuable material or content. Just a fan page of self-promoting at the benefit of those who have the SP and the followers. The minnows continue to suffer and upward mobility on this site has become nearly impossible. What a shame.
But as anyone with a B.S. would know all ypu have to do is read a journal and simply wrote put the same information in tour own style and you will not be seen to have any patterns similar with plagiarism.
This is encouraged even, I hope people keep posting information that they read and simply wrote the same information in their own style, the only problem comes when they claim information which was COPIED and mostly unchanged, as theirs. The difference being is that there isn't something wrong with taking information and formatting it or changing it to your style, at all, period, that's a good thing, and possible great if its information that has a wide impact.
Now you're saying that people aren't genuine because some people aren't genuine more or less.
I think you're being very harsh, not only that it's completely subjetive as what onstitutes really valuable, you could add a couple other words to emphasize exactly how valuable it is, it won't make it anything more than your very harsh opinion.
Yeah, we get it, people are shit, especially the promised community of shit on steem, you know what bro, you don't like it here GTFO, you're not thankful for what is essentially free beer, fuck you, get the fuck out asshole, you can say I'm not making it better but I'll save you the breath and let your own shameful conclusion speak for itself.
Wow! People are rude!! Thanks for helping sort this one out too!!
Very good work you are doing my friend! Thank you!
Well, that's a good trend. Maybe the art community will start hearing the news and crack down on STEEMit fakes, but then turn around and make their own REAL accounts.
Yes, Ekaterina is already signing up for steemit.com
Yay!!
ok, you found those and what? You cannot enforce anybody to close Steemit account.
So you post would work only as free advertising for those accounts
Free advertising of their crimes, who do you think will vote for this profit scheme anymore, do you think they will continue to scheme now? You can create such noise that even a whale cannot flag you without losing credibility and building your credibility with each flag, you can expose fraud, you can call out lies, hypocrisy, you can effect far more important change than simply closing accounts which would easily be invalidated by opening another one.
How many people have read this post? 107?
Everyone who didn't see this post would continue to vote for them
How do you figure, do you think people will vote for posts that have been flagged and have numerous warning that users have tacked on other of their posts and will continue to tack on to new posts? Free advertising, they will continue to vote for them? Hardly free advertising, since you more or less just said that people that read this post won't "Advertise" those schemes, so how is this post working ONLY as free advertising? How will the flags, the numerous comments that were posted on those accounts, and everyone that knows about this from other places or investigated this themselves and warns people about it make everyone who didn't see this post continue to vote for them?
Clearly you believe that people aren't that clever to add things up or even read a post, since you consider this post to still work ONLY as free advertising, as if.
I DO believe people read neither posts nor comments. 3/4 upvotes in steemit now are made with bots, trails and autovoters
This is really salt true about current Steemit
https://steemit.com/steemit/@allfabeta/steemit-platform-main-issue
https://steemit.com/steemit/@allfabeta/do-you-realize-how-steemit-is-strange-now-without-bots-and-trails
You just assaulted your own logic by responding to the post with a comment in direct response to my comment, by your logic you are not people, you believe you are something else.
So what that bots run this, those bots are ran by people, who will notice sooner or later that there aren't any curation rewards happening, either way, it's hardly free advertising, and you sound very salty for free stuff, demeaning all people to neither reading post or comments, more or less. If you would have said the majority of people it wouldn't change it much, you still see the majority of people on the site as shells of people, without any value or redemption, just mindless non readers.
It' s easy to check - wait the next their post and check upvotes
Yes, obviously, but I was asking how do you figure(you believe people don't read posts[art community you guys are pathetic]), not how can we know you were right.
no... my posts work to educate the community and get those with enough voting power to eventually flag the scammers!