⚠️ Another Admin Abusing Their Position with Booming Support - @milakz
UPDATE: I have just seen this comment from @daytona475 which should be read alongside this information. In particular, please respond to this:
Please do no put in the comments as it can spoil community support
For now we get both 01 and 02
We also got sponsors like @steemchiller and @shitcoiner
I will be contacting all users who have delegated to @steem.skillshare in due course.
This morning, I woke to the unusual sight of being tagged to a comment, and subsequently muted within a community.
The comment was highlighting some users who were receiving booming support within the Steem Skillshare Community who as the comment suggests - were powering down a much larger percentage of their power than was being powered up. I.e. these users are not in club5050 and should therefore not receive booming support.
The user highlighting this was instantly muted, suggesting that @milakz didn't want people to see...
But this could have been a mistake on @milakz's part and the simple response would have been to say, "Oh yeah, I'm sorry, my mistake. I'll check more closely in future." But this isn't what happened. Instead, I was tagged and instantly muted.
So, no mistake then, no accident. @milakz doesn't want this investigated. So let's find out why...
I'll begin with the first account mentioned - @natulya21.
@natulya21
This one's quite quick to identify. The first 2 transfers in June 2021, 1 month after account creation are to @milakz.
The huobi-pro account being used provided us with little additional information at first glance. But there are ways of digging deeper... so I followed the money on 22nd February...
And we can see that it made its way to @deepcrypto8 (Binance) minutes later.
So let's see who owns this wallet...
deepcrypto8 - Memo 101241249
It's interesting to see that there are A LOT of transactions to this wallet, over 26,000 Steem in fact. @poloniex, @bittrex, @withdrawal-kr and then a few usernames.
@digital.mine - Creator of many of the accounts listed below and owner of the Steem Skillshare Discord channel.
@vik24 - Moderator in Steem Skillshare.
@live.log - Delegator in Steem Skillshare.
@crypto.lion - Only posts in Steem Skillshare.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that all of these users receive booming support, none of them are in club5050 and all of them withdraw their steem to the same wallet.
So now that we've got the destination wallet, let's save ourselves some time, and track these withdrawals back to the original accounts and get ourselves a list of users.
I'm inclined not to go through every transaction - just enough for all support to be removed from this community and all of its users.
Transaction 1
Came from @mirco.snt.
Another loyal Steem Skillshare user who only posts within this community and receives booming support.
Transaction 2
This time, it's @life.pics
Shall we see where they're active - you probably already know the answer...
You guessed it. Steem Skillshare. More booming support and more withdrawals.
It's worth noting at this point that all of these users receive a 100% post to booming support conversion rate. Which isn't really surprising. It's also worth noting that I started this post having not started the investigation. So you get the exciting process of discovering at the same time as me.
Transaction 3
Comes from @the.journal.
Same pattern again. Steem Skillshare. "Developer Team" this time. And no doubt this post will have received booming support by the time you've read this.
The question I'm asking myself now, is when to stop. The abuse is clear, consistent and the mastermind @milakz can now be hung out to dry.
Let's do a few more...
Transaction 4
@saule.sara - Same pattern.
Transaction 5
@mirco.snt again.
Transaction 6
@passionfruit this time.
This one links through to @andyfish.
It's worth noting, that all of these users were highlighted by @daytona475 in their original comment, highlighting that these booming upvotes were suspicious.
Transaction 7
@live.log again.
Let's add in a little bit more at this point - @milakz shares a wallet with this user.
Transaction 8
@masix this time.
Now we've covered the 8 users that @daytona475 highlighted somewhere in this post. Great work @daytona475 - hopefully some big upvotes will be coming your way shortly.
I investigated many more transactions and they all come back to the same place - Steem Skillshare and booming support. More accounts, obviously.
I've tagged too many people for a tag to the Steem team to get noticed, so I'll tag you in the comments. I hope that you withdraw booming and all future support from these users.
I recommend that anybody who has delegated to the community account removes their delegation immediately as it is clear that @milakz will shamelessly use your power without remorse.
UPDATE 2: @talk.chinese is another account as confirmed in the comments
UPDATE 3: Abuse of the Community Account (@steem.skillshare)
Please note: Since @arunava and @dwarrilow2002 are the only users in this list not to consistently receive 100% upvotes, I do not believe that either of them are involved in this scam.
It's also worth noting that although not in the top 10, @vik24, @natulya21, @andyfish, @steempod, @masix and @crypto.lion are the only other users to always receive 100% upvotes from the community account.
Of which, @steempod is the only user not to have received a mention so far and fits the profile alongside all of the others, the money ending in the same destination wallet.
Update 4
In a separate post, it has been suggested that all of these users are unique, autonomous beings and that I am ruining thousands of lives. I have taken these concerns seriously and subsequently investigated further with the following information which I have shared with the author elsewhere (as I've mentioned before (more than once), I was muted from Steem Skillshare before this investigation began):
All of these booming upvotes made their way through to the same wallet - Binance 101241249.
Transfers to deepcrypto8, wallet address 101241249 on 7th February - This date chosen as it is the largest cluster of transactions to this address in a single burst.
I have labelled the transactions for ease of reference.
| Transaction | Account Origin | User Location | Joined |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | san.marco | Unknown | Jun 2019 |
| 2 | masix | Milan, Italy | Sep 2021 |
| 3 | passionfriut | Portugal | Jun 2021 |
| 4 | steempod | Unknown | Jan 2020 |
| 5 | vik24 | Kazakhstan | Apr 2021 |
| 6 | the.journal | digital.mine | Jan 2020 |
| 7 | crypto.lion | Portugal (related to live.log) | Sep 2021 |
| 8 | live.log | Presumably Portugal | Jul 2019 |
| 9 | natulya21 | Kazakhstan | May 2021 |
| 10 | talk.chinese | China? | Jan 2020 |
| 11 | life.pics | Portugal | Jan 2020 |
| 12 | milakz | Kazakhstan (introduced by live.log) | Apr 2021 |
The recovery account for all of these users (with the exception of milakz) is digital.mine.
12 different users transferring their money to the same wallet in sequence over a 2 hour period. Each transaction gap is between 8 and 19 minutes.
Some clusters of user location but distribution across the world in different timezones.
Now my interpretation of this information could be wrong, despite rumours to the contrary, I am human. But these transactions appear to indicate that a single person has systematically visited these accounts and transferred the assets to their binance account. It is common knowledge that in some countries, access to a crypto exchange is limited so money goes through a single user who distributes the money to his countrymen. Whilst this is possible, I am unaware of restrictions in Italy or Portugal to understand why the money would go to another account first.
Similarly, there's suggestion that the funds are making the way to this wallet as payment for services or goods. The lack of withdrawals from these accounts to other exchanges suggest otherwise. Likewise, why go through huobi-pro which incurs a fee and not a direct to the user's account.
It is not uncommon for people to digest and perceive information through their own lens of life and it is natural that a user will defend a community that they believe is doing some good and supporting users that are also doing good. Unfortunately, we have also seen numerous accounts that appear to be genuine people which have been created to gain booming support and subsequently abuse it for their own benefit.
It is also worth noting that digital.mine is the owner of the following accounts - at this time, I have no idea how many of them are active or within which communities. I am in the process of digesting this new information and further details will hopefully follow soon.
accountsdump
aeroplane.lover
andrea.bru
anna.anna84
asuna.sao
ativos.online
b0t5-t35t1ng
bala-lotus
bikers
bitcoin.network
blockart
blockosaur
boats
bolognesa
bot-testing
brustel
btc.euro.history
btcfreeforall001
caput.mundi
chowkidar
claude77
cluwakchina
crypto.lion
cryptofactsbc
cryptowps
csprime
cultura.digitale
dai.cicco
daisho
danilo.mirco
darkroom993
david.steem
die.berliner
die.frankfurter
digital.mine.ads
digitalmine.app
drawingqueen
elicomp
elicopter
emadil003
enver.tiler
erpasi123
esterofilo
fastsocialpoint
fastsocialpoint1
fastsocialpoint2
food.lover
gabato
gabris
gasusa
gennaro.per
genova
gtittex
helenhypnotic
hive-104524
hive-156057
hive-230678
hiveflow
huashalunzian
hybrintelligence
italy.art
joros.ghi
kalutoncul
kim.eugina
kimcraftshop
korean.lesson
la-frengo
laura.bed
life.pics
live.log
loveforseasons
manuela46
mediawizards-1
miguelpenalta
mirco.snt
myworkoutarena
natulya21
nea.polis
nicolino16
ostuni
palemmo
peterpanpan
priyanukesh
reeta2019
regex.hater
rev.lav
robin1220
rocky.tommy
rysard
san.marco
sent.analysis
shitsignals.leo
sport.car
steem.clash
steemcreator01
steempod
stopi
talk.chinese
test.dapp
the.giglio
the.journal
the.mole
the.renderer
the.shifter
thinkcoin.neo
traveladventures
trucklord
vegetajr
vesko1
vik24
ybit
zimmerfield
ziomar
zuricher
To Summarise
@andyfish
@crypto.lion
@digital.mine
@life.pics
@live.log
@masix
@mirco.snt
@milakz
@natulya21
@passionfruit
@saule.sara
@steem.skillshare
@steempod
@talk.chinese
@the.journal
@vik24
PLEASE REMOVE YOUR DELEGATION FROM @steem.skillshare IMMEDIATELY
Sorry, @talk.chinese is also included, I missed it. When I realized everything, this user had no power up and was receiving support from Booming.
Also confirmed via transfers to the same destination wallet👍🏼
Bien trabajo hermana. Eres muy valiente y se bien que eres una mujer integra.
Estoy con vos
Muchas gracias por tu apoyo amiga, lo aprecio mucho!
Thank you so much for speaking out. God bless you.
I am so proud of @daytona475 for finding these abusers as she is from our team. Way to go team #sevengers.
She's done great - It takes a lot of courage to speak out against a community leader in this way.
Yes, it does take a lot of courage to speak out against an account that has the responsibility of such a good community. I admire her for the steps she has taken and I ask everybody who is reading this comment to do the same to save the Steemit platform from such ill-minded people, who only think about their own profit when many users are not getting any support.
Thank for your post
Indeed we should speak out!
Thank you very much, the truth was not easy at all.
Thank you very much, team! ❤
@steemcurator01 - Please take note of the above
@shitcoiner
Hi @endingplagiarism and @daytona475, thank you for this Investigative work. I can't really believe that some users have such criminal mind. @milakz can't complain she received constant and it is really constant support from @steemcurator01 and even then this is not enough? then I just have no words. I am very disappointed with the Community admins and Country Representatives.
It just drops a bad shadow of few good ones as well people will stop trusting each other.
But I think this kind of background check should be undertaken on regular basis, randomly and of course if any of hte user notices anything like that.
That is why I was always calling for such Function like "Report Abuse" that should be available for people to report it. I am glad that we have you @endingplagiarism!
Hello thank you very much.
That may be an option that can work
I am also happy for the good and fast work of @endingplagiarism, it is admirable!
Thank you for this investigation. It seems that I was caught in emotions, because we have a war here in Ukraine.
@steemcurator01 - I deleted the vote.
Thanks - they've gone to some effort to cover their tracks.
Honestly, I am very ashamed that I supported this post without properly checking it before. I checked on club 5050, and found that 2.1% was missing. But I wanted to vote for it so much that I did not investigate further. And I didn't have time for that. Probably next month I will not be curating, now I can not do it well.
Don't beat yourself up about it. You upvoted a post that you felt warranted support, all of their abuse was hidden.
https://steemit.com/hive-136998/@endingplagiarism/r7yltr - Now this is somebody who should feel ashamed. Not you.
Sorry about the war.
Stay safe
Where is this platform heading to. Need to get rid of the abusers once and for all.
It's deep rooted and literally everywhere.
I'll take some snacks to watch the drama here
Wow!!!! you are great i fully support you..
Removed delegation. I have also removed the trail.
Amazing work you all do. Many thanks to keep clean the platform.
On the other hand, in my opinion, there should be more filters for signing up to Steemit, such as linking the account to a phone number or some other type of sign-up control.
Money is very greedy and not everyone has enough sense of ethics to behave honestly as this research shows. And we don't know how many scams of this type must be operating, but I suspect several more.
On the main steemit.com interface, a phone number is required but it's very easy to create an account (like @endingplagiarsm was) and then fund it via another method.
It appears that in this case, multiple accounts were created and the one which became the most successful was used to syphon money to the other accounts. There's not doubt that digital.mine and milakz are the main instigators and in all likelihood, the same person.
Without a doubt, several more. Unfortunately it takes a great deal of time and effort to identify and subsequently present enough evidence for their actions to be clear.
Perhaps amusingly, if I hadn't been muted before I'd even noticed the notification, I'd probably not even have noticed.
Hello @endingplagiarism, good evening to you and thank you for your perfect work on these platform
I'm still actually confused with the reason this user had to mute you. It definitely means the user knew what she was doing is totally out of steemit etiquette. I'm so happy justice have finally been prevail as they culprits have been figured out. This serve as a good lesson and warning ⚠️ to other leaders who are doing thesame as these culprits
A lot of things are poping up on steemit lately.
We all have to be careful because many peopls are now coming in to just benefit or ripe where theu didn't sow and eventually spoil the name of leaders when they are not be able to reward the real people who deserve it on time.
We need to be watchful and help sort out those who aren't real.