Maxim of life: Don't try to abuse Steem

_{Unless you want your rewards to go bye-bye 👋}

The accounts in question are as follows:

'abrahambuffingto', 'amadasunde', 'antonangulo', 'bertahessler', 'donniewhitmarsh', 'elainanewcombe', 'garlandmobley', 'lolakai', 'marianoleandro', 'martamarte', 'voneller', 'youlandademers'

I was able to link transfer memo on account @marianoleandro to account @alitavirgen. See the following:

Transfer memo noted on @alitavirgen's account.

Transfer memo noted on @marianoleandro's account.

Transfer between abuse accounts. Not sure what the deal with the cryptic memo is.

         The account @alitavirgen currently has significant delegations from @minnowbooster's market that they are using to upvote @voneller's bid bot abuse posts. I will be reaching out to MinnowBooster and, hopefully, we will be able to get those delegations pulled.

I believe we have a good case for a multiple breaches of their terms of service on this multi account abuse network.

What constitutes abuse of @minnowbooster?

Using multiple accounts to post duplicate content and purchasing MB upvotes for all of them

Same goes for using multiple accounts to post low quality content just to farm Minnowbooster for profits

Source: SteemReports

The posts all seem to follow a similar format.

The following seems to be the formula this network is using:

Random Pic + Random Quote + Bid bot votes = Profit $$$

Yes, I'm tired of it, too.

          I put together a special script in order to obtain all active posts from this abuse network. Based on the results, it appears that only @voneller's posts are active. If you look at the other accounts on the network, you will see that they made a significant amount of rewards using their method but that's water under the bridge now. The important thing is we can do something now and hopefully the operator of this abuse net will be penalized with a few non-refunded bids.

          I've created the repository for the code which you may use to enter a list of accounts. It will spit all active posts, rewards remaining and the blacklist status of users. The repo is currently a skeleton but I'll try to crank out a post on how to use it; however, I am confident most scripting savvy scripters will know what to do. I do need to update my beem version on my box but have confirmed it works with 0.20.5.

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Posts to focus efforts

Author	Comment	Remaining Rewards	Blacklisted?
voneller	Comment	8.676 SBD	FALSE
voneller	Comment	12.812 SBD	FALSE
voneller	Comment	12.616 SBD	FALSE
voneller	Comment	12.477 SBD	FALSE
voneller	Comment	14.212 SBD	FALSE
voneller	Comment	14.295 SBD	FALSE

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          Many of the above are at the 7 day mark so it may be wise to focus on the top of the list. Even if we were not able to zero the rewards on the past posts, we are at least able to do something now. I would also advise our keeping eyes on the related accounts. Thanks!

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