Someone is farming BHW accounts...

[Deleted member 964807]

Someone is farming BHW accounts

https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/abbycastillo.1118423/
https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/victornelson.1095006/
https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/marcellhaines.1124920/
https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/nancmoody.1120764/

What made me suspicious:
-They all have usernames like they came out of an online name generator.
-Each account has some activity the day they were created as well some activity today.
-They all have close to the same amount of activity as if the person running them thought "I'm a piece of shit who wants to farm BHW accs. I think I should add ~12 messages to each account."
-They all have low-quality responses


These are only the accounts I could catch because they bumped threads I was watching.

If you notice anymore accs like these, which you probably might've, then please comment them on this thread so the moderators can do something about them.


Back to making money...

 

[GoodGuy77]

Dude, you have too much time to notice that

 

[djj34]

Sherlock Holmes

 

[MisterF]

@Zwielicht will be onto these if that's the case, I'm pretty sure.

 

[Deleted member 964807]

Dude, you have too much time to notice that

It took me longer figuring out how to embed that gif than to make the thread.

 

[Deleted member 657006]

maybe it time for this website to pva all users that join and secure the whole forum up on phone verify..

make the user enter a code to login, send code only to the one phone number ,
i got that activated know , but maybe needs to be permanently on.

a user joins add there mobile number and each time they login get a code sent to them and they got to to enter it.

sms cost so maybe a sub needs to be added monthly or add a api so the user can add there own credits to get the sms messages..

 

[GoodGuy77]

maybe it time for this website to pva all users that join and secure the whole forum up on phone verify..

that is the most dumb idea I ever heard

 

[Sherb]

maybe it time for this website to pva all users that join and secure the whole forum up on phone verify..

You're kidding, right?

Good catch, @Turhan.

 

[GainRank]

that is the most dumb idea I ever heard

I found the perpetrator.

 

[Zwielicht]

All of the accounts share the same IP as well.

I'll ban them when I get on my desktop.

 

[W9go]

Someone is farming BHW accounts

https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/abbycastillo.1118423/
https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/victornelson.1095006/
https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/marcellhaines.1124920/
https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/nancmoody.1120764/

What made me suspicious:
-They all have usernames like they came out of an online name generator.
-Each account has some activity the day they were created as well some activity today.
-They all have close to the same amount of activity as if the person running them thought "I'm a piece of shit who wants to farm BHW accs. I think I should add ~12 messages to each account."
-They all have low-quality responses


These are only the accounts I could catch because they bumped threads I was watching.

If you notice anymore accs like these, which you probably might've, then please comment them on this thread so the moderators can do something about them.


Back to making money...

how you come up with this ... you check all new registers members ???
just wondering

 

[dhia27]

how you come up with this ... you check all new registers members ???
just wondering

He explained it here..

These are only the accounts I could catch because they bumped threads I was watching.

 

[irweazel]

Sherlock Holmes

lol that reminds me of someones bst thread that is full of shill accounts

 

[Jiung]

maybe it time for this website to pva all users that join and secure the whole forum up on phone verify..

make the user enter a code to login, send code only to the one phone number ,
i got that activated know , but maybe needs to be permanently on.

a user joins add there mobile number and each time they login get a code sent to them and they got to to enter it.

sms cost so maybe a sub needs to be added monthly or add a api so the user can add there own credits to get the sms messages..

I would get on bhw less if that happens

 

[soa0611]

These are only the accounts I could catch because they bumped threads I was watching.

what are these threads?

 

[Zwielicht]

I'm finally on my desktop, so I took the time to look into this. Here's an update:

To add to your list, all of the accounts, aside from being female (even when they had male names) had a propensity for misusing ellipses. (2-4 periods without putting a space between the last period and the first word). I've posted a few examples below.

Here's a full list of the farmed accounts.

• @AbbyCastillo
• @Vincentharton
• @Aliciagilbert
• @DanYoung
• @BenjaminMiles
• @NancMoody
• @GaryBlazek
• @MarcellHaines

The person who created the accounts was either lazy or inexperienced, as they all share the same IP address.

You'll notice that the odd one out is a senior member here named @seo001. As you may have already guessed, he has this same idiosyncrasy in his writing as well.

While the IP and misused ellipses may seem like minor details, there often aren't coincidences like this on Black Hat World. Of course, @seo001 is welcome to refute this by opening a support ticket using support.blackhatworld.com.

@seo001 has been temporarily banned until December 26, 2017 (after Christmas, because I'm a dick) and issued a 9 point infraction.

 

[Adword]

BHW must consider in a near future in additional verifications (phone , ID )
it remind me story about Trojan horse

 

[BigManTing]

Someone give this man MOD STATUS!!

 

[Zwielicht]

Someone give this man MOD STATUS!!

He can always submit an application if he's interested.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/applicationform/staff-application-form.1/form

BHW must consider in a near future in additional verifications (phone , ID )
it remind me story about Trojan horse

We already have 2-step, but it's optional. I really think it should be mandatory at this juncture, but that decision isn't up to me.

 

[Deleted member 964807]

I finally on my desktop, so I took the time to look into this. Here's an update:

To add to your list, all of the accounts, aside from being female (even when they had male names) had a propensity for misusing ellipses. (2-4 periods without putting a space between the last period and the first word). I've posted a few examples below.

Here's a full list of the farmed accounts.

• @AbbyCastillo
• @Vincentharton
• @Aliciagilbert
• @DanYoung
• @BenjaminMiles
• @NancMoody
• @GaryBlazek
• @MarcellHaines

The person who created the accounts was either lazy or inexperienced, as they all share the same IP address.

You'll notice that the odd one out is a senior member here named @seo001. As you may have already guessed, he has this same idiosyncrasy in his writing as well.

While the IP and misused ellipses may seem like minor details, there often aren't coincidences like this on Black Hat World. Of course, @seo001 is welcome to refute this by opening a support ticket using support.blackhatworld.com.

@seo001 has been temporarily banned until December 26, 2017 (after Christmas, because I'm a dick) and issued a 9 point infraction.

Wow, quite the detective work.
Appreciate all the work you do as a moderator.

Someone give this man MOD STATUS!!

I'd probably just abuse it by stickying my dank memes to all the forums