Accusation:
@sighanchi is running a network of fake accounts upvoting spam&plagiarism.
An anonymous steemian reported about the account on discord. I went out to investigate!
The Findings:
The evidence is supporting the claims!
but there's a more sinister thing under the rugs!
Again, we shall not even look at the accusation of plagiarism too much, there will be some more devious things to be discovered than just that.
As per usual, let's look at the suspects financial history:
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case: @sighanchi - running 'benevolent' bot to enrich himself
- @sighanchi | created 2017-06-14 04:17:33
received initial 0.002 SBD from @gnocdepatat
sends funds to sponsor alt accounts: @indianwolf; @sicontractor; @treachya; @seveide; @kyhar; @ibearith; @astaetram; @galarellan; @afeliseth; @adwiar; @steemdolphin; @whalepower; @whalegonewild
Following the trail of the sponsor has not been fruitful. I have to give the benefit of doubt to @gnocdepatat, the initial sponsoring was likely in fact just helping benevolently with a MinnowSupport registration.
So let's look at all the accounts @sighanchihas sponsored:
The 1st batch of accounts have been involved with cheating on the minnowsupport network (exploiting multi-registration vulnerability) and are all creating repetitive spam-posts, mainly pictures of sports cars:
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[partially attempted] MSP abuse; delegate to @steemdolphin; transfer to @sighanchi; spam-posting:
- @indianwolf | created 2017-06-17 15:06:57
- @sicontractor | created 2017-06-18 06:49:12
- @treachya | created 2017-06-20 08:13:39
- @seveide | created 2017-06-23 04:19:21
- @kyhar | created 2017-06-24 09:49:39
- @ibearith | created 2017-06-26 05:44:24
- @astaetram | created 2017-06-26 05:48:00
- @galarellan | created 2017-06-26 05:51:24
- @afeliseth | created 2017-06-24 15:59:30
- @adwiar | created 2017-06-29 11:36:15
Not only are these accounts all transferring their ill-gotten rewards back to @sighanchi, they are also delegating power to the other sockpuppet @steemdolphin.
Now this is where the real scam starts:
++fakewhales:
- @steemdolphin | created 2017-06-30 10:29:30 - only self-funding from alts so far; already downvoted
- @whalegonewild | created 2017-06-30 10:21:51 - scammed numerous people, never upvoted; tx-out to @sighanchi; already downvoted
- @whalepower | created 2017-06-30 10:25:39 - scammed(?) money from @bi5h0p, @rencong; ; tx-out to @blocktrades -> RUNNING!
Two of these accounts have already seen retaliation and are being downvoted.
The last one in the list, @whalepower, is still operational... beware!
This concludes my findings.
May the community be the judge!
yours,
Sherlock
DISCLAIMER: All the account names have intentionally been mentioned without linking. I am just starting and lack both the reputation and the voting power to do something about this. A flag war would sink my ship in the blink of an eye! If YOU feel something needs to be done... be my guest! But be careful, if your reputation score is lower than theirs, you won't impact them and they will be able to stomp you in the ground!
Have you witnessed similar things yourself?
Don't just ignore it and move on... let me know!