Quote from: nutildah on March 14, 2019, 08:48:10 AM

I've identified 25 different bump bots that are likely all owned and operated by the same person.
Matching the bumping behavior with the description of a Fiverr service, I've managed to uncover the exact party offering the service.

Here is a screenshot of what the service offers:

Here are the accounts connected, all of which have commented multiple times in the same 10 ANN threads (and 1 bounty thread):

Profile   Rank
ViktoriiaVel   Newbie
FominTiu   Newbie
Dievarric   Newbie
adidasler444   Jr. Member
Bitkotname   Jr. Member
BTC_Panther   Jr. Member
BTCReporting   Jr. Member
cas33   Jr. Member
CiNik   Jr. Member
DarkSoul1   Jr. Member
Kirand   Jr. Member
opsofsile1983   Jr. Member
Quersamine   Jr. Member
Quesdex   Jr. Member
Roksalana   Jr. Member
sofaflesh   Jr. Member
Stnev89   Jr. Member
ytaevv   Jr. Member
TimurBit   Jr. Member
tor9   Member
ZloiRediska   Member
Julia1992   Full Member
Tryam93   Full Member
VAGR   Full Member
KnyazED   Sr. Member

Threads being bumped (there's at least 4 more associated, but these are the top 10):

🔥🔥[ANN][ICO]AMANPURI Ultimate exchange PRIVATE SALE🔥🔥
Cool

[BOUNTY][ICO] FORTFC - UNIQUE CRYPTOLIQUIDITY AGGREGATOR
[ANN] [ICO] TecraCoin (TCR) | PoW/PoSe - Hi-Tech Patented Technologies
[ANN] QUSD (QUSD) Low-Volatility Stablecoin "QUSD token" [OFFICIAL]
[ANN]⭐ EVOS coin [Hybrid POW+POS+MN] ⭐ New EcoSystem for MN world⭐
🔥🔥🔥[ANN][Smart Contracts] [LOTTO&Games][GFR][GoldenFever]
[ANN] Sound Money Coin (SOV). A new King is in town.
🔥📢[ANN][POS+MN] PACT coin for freelancing 👩‍💼 platform🚀CryptoBridge/GRAVIEX
🚀[ANN] Cryptohr.net 🚀 - decentralized cryptocurrency HR database
[ANN] [PoS/MASTERNODE] ⚡️ IEX - Internal exchange coin ⚡️ PRESALE MN / STAKING

The same team was also hired to bump the Ethereum Classic Vision coin, which appears to have been a scam (some of those accounts have been red tagged or banned).

Here's a spreadsheet showing which members commented in which thread. Most Jr. Member accounts received exactly 1 merit, and there are at least 4 cases of merit abuse (shown in bold in the Merited By column). There's likely other merit abuse going on but I haven't looked to deeply into connecting the accounts yet.

As you can see, projects like GoldenFever and EVOS subscribed to the Premium package, projects like SoundMoney and PACT subscribed to the Standard package, and projects like CryptoHR and IEX subscribed to the Basic package.

All told, we're talking about literally hundreds of spam comments being posted a day by either one person or the same group of people. Just one- or two-line, asinine conversations with themselves all day long, day after day.

I know the team originates from Russia because several of them comment regularly in the Russian Local board.

These accounts should all be banned for spam.

In the long run, it would be interesting if statistics showed that projects which hired bump bot services were more likely to be scams, which I feel is probably the case.

Its worth noting that many of them also participate in bounties so there's a strong possibility that bounty cheating is going on as well. Feel free to dig into them on an individual level if you'd like!

cryptocurrency success will be in the future defined by spam and attention hacks i have in my project telegram channel constantly spam from american icos. although i am not asking for it.