@Sweetsssj : Sixth Day Eleventh Hour Selfvoting via a 13-Account Content Farm ?

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An aquaintance of mine suggested I read an article about Hive account@sweetsssj which you can find here

Within it and its comments it is described how Hive account@sweetsssj is systematically upvoting a certain group of accounts on the sixth day and how the rewards of all those accounts go to the same bittrex memo, which is supposed to be Hive account@sweetsssj's

So I decided to investigate this issue to find out how much truth there was to it.

Researching this I found out Hive account@sweetsssj had a 500000 SP (1,029.059 MV) delegation from Hive account@ned from August 8th until October 24th 2017
https://steemd.com/tx/53eb70b93f6d4ea242309c61e95e51715a2f2669
https://steemd.com/tx/29bd56a79d4f7843a632f4e4ec8178b42fd7ac31

and was caught selling votes with it

This article by Hive account@paulag has some good intel on the case.

At this moment Hive account@sweetsssj has the following delegations:

351265 SP from Hive account@hendrikdegrote (717.866 MV)
301294 SP from Hive account@systema (615.776 MV)
108270 SP from Hive account@temet-nosce (221.998 MV)

http://www.steemreports.com/delegation-info/?account=sweetsssj

Now, lets take a look at Hive account@sweetsssj outgoing votes for the last
4 months: http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=sweetsssj&days=120

Notice these accounts on the right side of the graphic:

1-Hive account@twinkledrop 2-Hive account@michaelleeld 3-Hive account@wisemansays 4-Hive account@thecatfiles
5-Hive account@helgachen 6-Hive account@sherrychan 7- Hive account@allanlong 8-Hive account@maysun
9-Hive account@trendylife 10-Hive account@ashely056 11-Hive account@honeybee 12-Hive account@amylee 13-Hive account@serenawu

These accounts transferred all rewards made to two bittrex memos for a long time, although recently they switched to encrypted memos, most likely to obfuscate detection.

Together they represent 48.1 % of Hive account@sweetsssj outgoing votes in the last 4 months

These are not accounts buying votes, but accounts transferring every reward they make to the following bittrex memos

SBD memo is 5bdbb32f342b431e987
STEEM memo is f439b10436fa4edb836

Who do these memos belong to?

Well, investigating I found out that these two memos were used by many accounts to buy votes from Hive account@sweetsssj , in the last 6 months many of the vote buyers initially sent sbd and steem directly to Hive account@sweetsssj and then switched to using those memos.

For example here we can see user Hive account@johndahl sending 0.50 sbd to Hive account@sweetsssj in exchange for a vote on the link: https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@jondahl/basketball-2-learn-to-catch-and-hold-the-ball-belajar-menangkap-dan-memegang-bola-eng-ind which is included in the memo https://steemd.com/tx/78b8f8cec5e361588941ec37bccaa9ddb77115a4

And here you can see the corresponding vote by Hive account@sweetsssj
https://steemd.com/steemiteducation/@jondahl/basketball-2-learn-to-catch-and-hold-the-ball-belajar-menangkap-dan-memegang-bola-eng-ind

Here you can see the same user sending Hive account@sweetsssj 10 SBD to the
bittrex memo 5bdbb32f342b431e987
https://steemd.com/tx/b9f96c1cb39e5f7695f367fb556f2c1f9603c03a

And here you can see the same user sending Hive account@sweetsssj 20 STEEM
to bittrex memo f439b10436fa4edb836
https://steemd.com/tx/45b06e327014238910285ed00f0b98b7892f67f3

And here we have a jewel, an operator mistake,

https://steemd.com/tx/4a6ab5c3b8cbeede76faaad98b12afbc876b82f0
the user is sending 10 SBD to Hive account@sweetsssj directly
but in the memo field he inserts the SBD bittrex memo 5bdbb32f342b431e987

I think we can say with a decent level of certainty that memo belongs to Hive account@sweetsssj

Sixth Day Voting

Regarding sixth day voting lets look at some recent data,
these are 9 high power votes by Hive account@sweetsssj from the last 24 hours:

1- https://steemd.com/travel/@helgachen/visiting-one-of-the-most-beautiful-small-villages-in-all-of-europe
Created 2018-02-05 20:27:36 Voted 2018-02-12 07:28:57 @ 100%
6 days 11 hours

2- https://steemd.com/cn/@twinkledrop/travel-with-rainie-visiting-the-birdland-in-bourton-on-the-water-2-rainie
Created 2018-02-06 07:08:24 Voted 2018-02-12 17:44:15 @ 100%
6 days 9 hours 36 minutes

3- https://steemd.com/film/@movieperminute/the-lego-movie-2014
Created 2018-02-07 00:01:00 Voted 2018-02-12 18:05:36 @ 25%
5 days 18 hours and 6 minutes

4- https://steemd.com/cn/@michaelleeld/string-string-sweet
Created 2018-02-06 13:34:09 Voted 2018-02-13 00:19:33 @ 45%
6 days 10 hours and 45 minutes

5- https://steemd.com/cat/@thecatfiles/the-alpha
Created 2018-02-06 23:54:24 Voted 2018-02-13 10:35:48 @ 100%
6 days 10 hours and 41 minutes

6- https://steemd.com/prose/@honeybee/desires
Created 2018-02-06 20:11:45 Voted 2018-02-13 06:56:12 @ 100%
6 days 10 hours and 45 minutes

7- https://steemd.com/travel/@sherrychan/the-asian-way-of-bar-crawling
Created 2018-02-06 18:32:36 Voted 2018-02-13 05:31:03 @ 100%
6 days 10 hours and 59 minutes

8- https://steemd.com/cn/@amylee/etmvq
Created 2018-02-06 17:13:09 Voted 2018-02-13 03:58:54 @ 100%
6 days 10 hours and 45 minutes

9- https://steemd.com/cn/@serenawu/unico
Created 2018-02-06 15:32:54 Voted 2018-02-13 02:31:06 @ 100%
6 days 10 hours and 59 minutes

Now, the accounts, I will begin with a summary of two accounts in this initial post.

Hive account@honeybee

• Account created september 2016
• 4 posts during september 2016, 1 post during march 7 2017
• Begins to be regularly active July 7 2017
• Every single post but 4 are voted by Hive account@sweetsssj
• First post voted by Hive account@sweetsssj 30 minutes after published
  https://steemd.com/tx/d44def54aac4098640f751984ecfb80a92c7b695
  https://steemd.com/tx/52d25595c588ff62f426b32a95009438bd28a8a3

Rewards Last Month
1300 SBD----->usd6539
300SP---------->usd1251
Total USD 7790

• Total posts last month: 12
• Average per post last month: USD 649
• Begins to be upvoted by Hive account@sweetsssj on the 6th day on: October 26th
• Account powering down 1675 SP
• Starts using memo 5bdbb32f342b431e987 on september 9th 2017
  https://steemd.com/tx/bf8926247ab412809fb23078cdfdc796704e37aa

Total Rewards
5360 SBD----->USD 27014
7010 STEEM ----->USD 29231
Total USD 56245

• Total posts 160
• Average rewards per post USD 351

Percentage of incoming votes from Hive account@sweetsssj in the last 7 months 84%

http://www.steemreports.com/incoming-votes-info/?account=honeybee&days=210

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Hive account@twinkledrop

• Account created july 9 2017
• First post is upvoted by Hive account@sweetsssj 75 minutes after published
  https://steemd.com/tx/cdc1fd8eaf3e5da9c02d5214482d0782ae5deced
  https://steemd.com/tx/84fdbc70817b08f430e6e51f92ddbf0e191f6082
• Starts using memo 5bdbb32f342b431e987 on December 8 2017
  https://steemd.com/tx/ee16dab8e6291e9874045bdbf345e6025b5a8572
• Begins being upvoted by Hive account@sweetsssj on the sixth day on October 16 2017
• Every post voted by Hive account@sweetsssj except for 8

Rewards last month
5204 SBD ----->usd26228
913 SP---------->usd3807
Total USD 30035

• Posts last month 30
• Average per post USD 1001
• Account powering down 3777 SP

Total Rewards
8481 SBD------->USD 42744
5189 STEEM------->USD 26100
Total USD 68844

• Total posts 183
• Average per post: USD 376
• Percentage incoming votes from Hive account@sweetsssj in the last 7 months: 82.3%
  
  http://www.steemreports.com/incoming-votes-info/?account=twinkledrop&days=210

To Be Continued...