How about Newbie
GOODLUCK-HRM? He earned all his 19 Merit from Merit giveaways, and posts generic crap like this:
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Not only generic, it also contain wrong information. Anyway, i've reported such posts and tagged that account for now. Maybe we could catch account spammer/farmer by looking on new account which join such merit giveaway.
Unfortunately you are correct: any time there is a merit giveaway or contest that results in merits, of any sort, you will get such accounts trying to abuse it. This person probably has 3-5 accounts they are running simultaneously on the forum. A dead giveaway of a fake newbie are posts like this one:
I am a new member in this forum. I came across this Beginners & Help post and made this post. Please help me with a proper guide line how I can get idea about this forum.
Someone announcing they are "new"... 95% of the time means they are not. I see the post in question has already been deleted. Most likely the account belongs to whoever controls these accounts:
Bitcointalk Account: GOODLUCK-HRM
My vote goes to: 8rch7, kuriboh