That boomin guy is the latest (caught) alt of MariusTi aka steamproject aka tberty aka Dorkslayz etc etc who uses an army of dozens of alts to fake vouch or spam bump his threads of torrent invites (and he's probably had around a 100 banned). He either has a massive stockpile of them or buys them from account sellers but I'm more inclined to believe that he has just farmed/created them himself as there's a lot that were just used to make one or two posts to bump/vouch for his thread then discarded, though some of the older ones recently came back to life and started selling the torrent invites when a lot of his other accounts got found out and banned. This behaviour with him has been going on for years with him and not just on this forum either as he's been banned from numerous forums and never learns.
So you basically just agree that hacking (old) newbie accounts do have benefits for scammer's, and illustrating those benefits to scammer's.
Steamproject ran his thread nearly 2 years on bct. What exactly was he supposed to "learn" from that?
If he "just farmed/created them himself" he must have been around since July 31, 2010, 07:44:15 PM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=657 Weather or not Steamproject farmed those accounts himself or hacked them or bought them is a different topic, probably known alts thread.
The fact remains that hundred's of thousands of accounts are "hacked" by someone.
bct members are left in the dark over the scale of this, while mods say there is nothing that can be done, admin haven't even responded.
Nearly all of these accounts probably are hacked, but one of the key problems is that the forum is very hands-off so they're faced with the dilemma of finding out how to
that these accounts are hacked without intruding on people's privacy. It must be pretty difficult.
I suppose the main problem is the security breach from a while ago, which people are now exploiting because these dormant users never managed to change their passwords as they haven't been on this forum for a long time.