Having told you the story of lowellum, teewayjs and putra.kelana, and my concern that booming02 upvoted a post I'd flagged as plagiarised, I followed the money courtesy of https://steemyy.com/outgoing/.
Below is a list of the users that booming02 has upvoted over the last 2 weeks (in order of upvote power) and where the money's gone. Enjoy.
| Rank | User | Transfer to | Bittrex Add. | huobi-pro Add. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | louislau123 | cryptorhino11, mahdisarlak | - | - |
| 2 | robyls | cryptorhino11, mahdisarlak, jefffeng, anon2020, carelwolfaardt | - | - |
| 3 | fastman1 | cryptorhino11, anon2020, mahdisarlak, jefffeng | - | - |
| 4 | ethansteem2020 | jefffeng, anon2020, mahdisarlak, cryptorhino11 | - | - |
| 5 | anon2020 | - | a8f2a88561dc4e03a00 | 321620 |
| 6 | carelwolfaardt | anon2020, cryptorhino11, jefffeng, mahdisarlak | - | 321620 |
| 7 | cryptogui-1 | mahdisarlak, cryptorhino11 | - | - |
| 8 | solidenl | cryptorhino11, anon2020, jefffeng, mahdisarlak | - | - |
| 9 | goyaldfg | jefffeng, mahdisarlak, anon2020, cryptorhino11, carelwolfaardt | - | - |
| 10 | jefffeng | - | a8f2a88561dc4e03a00 | 321620 |
| 11 | teewayjs | anon2020, cryptorhino11, jefffeng, mahdisarlak, carelwolfaardt | - | - |
| 12 | mkhandi | anon2020, cryptorhino11, mahdisarlak, jefffeng | a8f2a88561dc4e03a00 | - |
| 13 | gulbanu | cryptorhino11, mahdisarlak, anon2020, carelwolfaardt | - | - |
| 14 | mishalederman | jefffeng, mahdisarlak, cryptorhino11 | - | - |
| 15 | viewworld | mahdisarlak | - | - |
| 16 | marcojd | mahdisarlak, cryptorhino11 | - | - |
| 17 | cryptorhino11 | - | a8f2a88561dc4e03a00 | 321620 |
| 25 | mahdisarlak | - | a8f2a88561dc4e03a00 | 321620 |
There's loads more, all transferring their money to the same place, all upvoted by booming02. I can't begin to imagine how much has been stolen through this route, it's tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. All pushing the price of steem and SBD down and taking rewards away from genuine content creators. New accounts are still being created for this sole purpose, you'll see some of the above only started in March 2021.
If you look at the Wallets for those 5 main accounts, you'll find yourselves a list of all of the accounts involved in this elaborate fraud.
Pretty conclusive if you ask me.
And to think I spent all that time searching for the original Chinese articles.
