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Faucet Farm Updates

The "Algarion", "Gentlee-Boy" and "Steemit Defense League" faucet farms have been updated, a total of 197 new accounts have now had their Hive account@steem delegation removed by Steemit.

Algarion Faucet Farm Update

The "Algarion" faucet farm (named after its main account) was first added to Hive account@spaminator at the end of October 2018. Recently I had noticed that they were active again, after looking I had noticed that they had started farming again about a month ago. There are a total of 470 accounts in this farm, of which 99 new accounts have been added during this update.

As you can see, they were posting 10 images a day with a thematic title and no text. They were all being upvoted by 100s of accounts, which all had 25 reputation and zero posts. All of these accounts were created using the Hive account@steem faucet. This is a classic M.O for this type of abuse.

Gentlee-Boy Faucet Farm Update

For a more detailed explanation of the "Gentlee-Boy" faucet farm you can read my post from two weeks ago. This week 70 more accounts have now had their delegation removed. The main account Hive account@gentlee-boy and other related accounts are in the process of powering down and transferring the funds out via the Hive account@blocktrades and Hive account@bittrex exchanges.

This probably won't be the last we will see of this scammer, but next time it will be under a different identity.

Steemit Defense League Update

The "Steemit Defense League", a notorious horde of 402 troll accounts owned by Hive account@camillesteemer has recently become active again. This time by spamming randomised sentences over their many accounts. 28 more accounts have now had their Hive account@steem delegation removed and I'm sure there will be more to come in future.

As you can see, just by doing a quick search via eSteem Search, you can see many accounts posting the same sentences at similar times. If you take a random sentence from one of the post results and search for it, you will find even more accounts also posting them, in a kind of web like pattern. Currently Hive account@camillesteemer is busy flagging every post in sight as you can see below. Which I think perfectly displays the type of people these abusers tend to be.

GitHub Pull Request (PR)

You can read more about which accounts were added here #66. Because of the PR, Steemit Inc removed the delegation to these accounts.

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