Accusation:
While digging up information about @elena2017's case I was in close contact and had tremendous support from the real Ekaterina
She had the initial hunch and was essential to pulling the account into the spotlight!
The Findings:
is an account operated by the real person portraied under that blog.
What isn't portrayed, though, is the fact that she is also impersonating a few other artists!
First there are and
, who had been identified as fakes in case 4 and case 5. You can read all the details over there.
Next we have two more fake artists:
- impersonating nellyhandmade on vk.com
- impersonating Yulia Kurikhina on vk.com
But what kind of proof do we have to say is behind this?
isn't new to this game. She received initial funding from an account that has been unmasked 11 months ago:
, who, coincidentally, also transfers funds to that same bittrex wallet until today!
Not convinced yet? While all other artists have confirmed to me that they are unaware of their steemit presence, Anna's vk profile completely refuses communication, and so does over here.
Need more? Check the activity times of the accounts, you will find a strange synchronicity in claiming rewards. If you check the voting behavior between these accounts, the connection is just as obvious! The tools by will help you do this easily.
Also, Anna has been the one commissioning the paintings of and
from the real Elena for (hold your breath) $15 each!! We have proof in form of screenshots of her conversation with the real Elena. Unfortunately Elena has requested these to not be released! You'll have to trust me on this one. I am willing to show them to a trusted member of the community if necessary.
We do not know who was commissioned to do the portrait of that has also been published under
, but it is revealing that Elena never took a selfie with this one, but did so with the other two.
There are more steemit accounts who are possibly connected to , these accounts belong to her husband and a married couple they are friends with. I will not state their accounts here directly, as we cannot proof they do in fact have knowledge about this, however likely that is!
There are potentially many more artist profiles on steemit that are running like this, just see the case of @iconzbranding that I started my work with here.
So please, be extra vigilant when you see profiles like these. Use some scrutiny and execute a reverse image search on google, it's often as easy as that!
Please also be aware that the same scam is being executed, not only on steemit.com, but also on the russian fork called golos. If you know someone over there, they should probably check this out!
yours,
Sherlock
Have you witnessed similar things yourself?
Don't just ignore it and move on... let me know!