This is based on a true story, following the life of a prominent user who's been busily scamming the Newcomers' Community and Crypto Academy for a while now.
He is... "The Professor"...
After a frantic Day 4, the earlier recap and Scammers Academy was useful for me to take stock of where we are. A lot's happened in 4 days, surely day 5 will be calmer.
If you missed our recap of proceedings so far, please take a look and if you have time, take part in our Scammers Academy Homework Task 1.
Source + A Maximum Lazy Photoshopping
A relatively quiet today. "The Professor" and his "Assistant" tired from yesterday's proceedings.
No Activity on Accounts 1-8.
03:22 - Account 13: Follow "Upvote Service"
03:22 - Account 13: Downvote "Well Known Korean UpVu User"
03:22 - Account 13: Remove Downvote from "Well Known Korean UpVu User"
03:22 - Account 13: Upvote "Well Known Korean UpVu User"
03:37 - Account 12: Self Upvote Achievement 1 Post
04:47 - Account 10: Self upvote Achievement 1 Post
04:47 - Account 10: Resteem Achievement 1 Post
06:57 - Account 12: Post Achievement 2
07:02 - Account 12: Edit Achievement 2
07:08 - Account 10: Post Achievement 2
07:11 - Account 10: Resteem Achievement 2
07:21 - Account 10: Edit Achievement 2 (to include sentence about the Master Key)
07:39 - Account 10: Receive 100% Upvote from "The Professor"
08:16 - Account 13: Upvoted a totally random post from 8 months ago (has madness set in?)
08:23 - Account 9: Downvote Nigerian Newcomer's Achievement 1 Post
08:23 - Account 9: Remove downvote from Nigerian Newcomer's Achievement 1 Post
08:55 - Account 10: Received confirmation from "Greeter" to Proceed to Task 3
09:04 - Account 12: Received confirmation from "Greeter" to Proceed to Task 3
11:28 - Account 12: Self Upvote Achievement 2 Post
11:29 - Account 12: Thank "Greeter" and express "Excitement"
13:02 - Account 12: Remove Self Upvote from Achievement 1 Post
13:02 - Account 12: Remove Self Upvote from Achievement 2 Post
14:47 - Account 14: Post Achievement 2
Day 5 Rewards Earned: $0.20
Total Rewards: $33.74
Image filenames for Account 10 Achievement 2:
- IMG_20211119_123318.jpg
- IMG_20211119_124903.jpg
- IMG_20211119_123420.jpg
- IMG_20211119_124927.jpg
Image filenames for Account 12 Achievement 2:
- IMG_20211119_114312.jpg"
- IMG_20211119_113242.jpg"
- IMG_20211119_113408.jpg"
- IMG_20211119_113307.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-12-19-50-06.jpg"
- IMG_20211119_113333.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-12-24-31-98.jpg"
- download.jpeg"
Image filenames for Account 14 Achievement 2
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-19-52-24-47_c86a420cc97150814abb35fde5ad0be5.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-19-53-11-09_c86a420cc97150814abb35fde5ad0be5.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-19-53-34-46_c86a420cc97150814abb35fde5ad0be5.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-19-54-31-18_c86a420cc97150814abb35fde5ad0be5.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-19-54-58-90_c86a420cc97150814abb35fde5ad0be5.jpg"
- Screenshot_2021-11-19-19-55-31-07_c86a420cc97150814abb35fde5ad0be5.jpg"
Some interesting filenames considering that Account 12 posted Achievement 2 before Account 10 did - It appears that both posts were prepared before logging in and posting them. Possibly in an attempt to avoid yesterday's mistakes.
Mistakes happen though... Account 14's Achievement 2 contains screenshots that are clearly from another user (as they still have the other user's account name displayed). Is it a coincidence that this other user is an "associate"/"alter-ego" of "The Professor"? (Who hasn't had their Achievement 2 validated yet.) - And rather amusingly, is stood in exactly the same place as Accounts 1 and 2 with a WhatsApp filename of IMG-20211112-WA0025.jpg.
Is "The Professor" getting sloppy? All roads seem to keep leading back to him.