Recently, there has been a new wave of spammers (minimum 52 steem accounts - see list below) who publish various YouTube channels and their content here on Steem. Only the content, the description of the video and the video itself is published in one article. Unfortunately, these users always get the one and other Upvotes. A big thank you goes here to @condeas, which has helped enormously in the work to find out which accounts are affected. In the last few days I have downvoted some of these published posts.
The accounts also use the same profile picture that is posted on the YouTube channel... to give the impression that the Steem account is official. Some of the affected youtubers have already replied to the request if the account belongs to them. From some of them I received the following statement and want to prove this to you with this proof of fake:
Proof of Fake List / Screenshots
This List of Proof from the Original Youtube Owner will be updated, as soon we get a short Statement
The Youtube Channel of: "Blockchain Brothers"
Fake-Steem User: @breachedrosa
Original link to the statement / comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkOYy1CeLNQ&lc=Ugxt6yk_FmiV3zalRQF4AaABAg.95sKRST77YA95sMI2EsKXn
The Youtube Channel of: "Gartenschlau"
Fake-Steem User: @mslinari
Original link to the statement / comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-iz6LorcM&lc=UgwiNve5HXiK5xNzzuV4AaABAg.95qL9qKTM6f95r5dtDfeYb
The Youtube Channel of: "The Morpheus Tutorials"
Fake-Steem User: @xapu
Original link to the statement / comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6PHgmzeYhk&lc=Ugz8Yrb8OhoSH9TJDq94AaABAg.95kg9ZDCGLp95m--0Fynkm
The Youtube Channel of: "Bag-O-Day Crochet"
Fake-Steem User: @krom11
Original link to the statement / comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM2lE7qQU30&lc=UgzJS2tcG70QV_TPNFR4AaABAg.95rx2lEUueE95t3mLf5np5
The Youtube Channel of: "Coin Bureau"
Fake-Steem User: @vedantiy
Original link to the statement / comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zizUqOOxE_0&lc=UgyoS1TjiH-qlVnomq14AaABAg.95vaNO9G_ek95vbCB66MQ4
That are 5 Steem Accounts, where it is confirmed that the accounts do not belong to the original author of the content. For me this is pure copy and paste spam, which I do not want to see on Steem. Continuously and with pure intention with the contents of foreign money earn, I can not agree with me and you should not do that. Some of the users post the content in the D-A-CH Community (German Community, where I'm a moderator) and I'm thinking about whether these users should actually be muted for this community. You are welcome to share this post in your community / cross post to draw attention to this problem.
The list of users and the channels with the author content. Thanks here to @condeas
Here is the list of users. The thick marked users are actually confirmed fake accounts.
(List is updated)
Proofed Spammer Accounts are:
- @breachedrosa
- @mslinari
- @vedantiy
- @krom11
- @xapu
- @minnyfy
- @vlasovaladas
and more are on the way.
You may now form your own opinion on whether the content that these users publish here is worth an upvote or should rather get a flag and be blacklisted. I for my part am angry about this and will not tolerate it. We have quite different problems at the moment ;)
Until then - Many greetings
@louis88
PS: Of course I would love to see the original authors of the content with their confirmed accounts here on Steem. Thanks for your attention.
Added Proofs - 11th March
@minnyfy Fake User
@vlasovaladas Fake User
Added Proof - 12th March
@ustisan Fake User
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cde2wB8l7FA&lc=UgwW9ncwAoROZtbAma14AaABAg
Awesome job :)
Great job, thankfully most of these seem to be earning nothing for now!
Thanks. Yes, the most of the Posts are at Zero so good for us and bad for the spammers.
Hi brother @louis88.
I see that you thoroughly investigated this situation and, you managed to identify the accounts. I congratulate you, you did an excellent job.
You and I had exchanged impressions about this:
https://steemit.com/hive-175254/@juanmolina/q6jmis
I belong to the core team of Project Hope Hive. Our community is growing rapidly and we have had these types of publications. We will use this information developed by you to "clean" our subscriber list and avoid supporting this group of accounts.
PS: I would have loved to have this publication of yours in my Hive.
Your friend, Juan
Hi Juan, thanks! Yes, you are free to repost this Post in to your Community to make the Users know about this issue. I'm also just joined the Community.
Thanks and greetings
~louis
Thank you for your kind and attentive response.
I will make a publication based on yours and put the link. Do you like the idea? We at Project Hope try not to cross-post.
Thanks for joining our Hive. I hope to have one of your publications soon and you know a little more about us and our project.
´ll Hope you.
This is so crazy! Wow! I just got tricked myself by “justinsunSteem” comenting on my post, lol! I thought it was really him until 5 min later I realized I just got got! 😂😂😂🤣🤣
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Du hast ein Upvote von mir bekommen, diese soll die Deutsche Community unterstützen. Wenn du mich unterstützten möchtest, dann sende mir eine Delegation. Egal wie klein die Unterstützung ist, Du hilfst damit der Community. DANKE!
you’re doing gods work, thank you
thank you
Du erhieltest aufgrund deiner LanaCharleenToken Miner ein Upvote von @sebescen81
Vielen lieben Dank für euren Support. Der Account meiner Tochter wächst und gedeiht.
Spammers milking the system are viruses.
Ok😀
Du hast ein kleines Upvote von unserem Curation – Support – Reblog Account (German Steem Bootcamp) erhalten. Dieser wurde per Hand erteilt und nicht von einem Bot.
Du findest uns im Discord unter https://discord.gg/Uee9wDB
Hi, thanks for finding out. Sadly, it is not a the first YT mass identity theft farm.
Would you be so kind and drop the whole list to Steemcleaners Discord channel please?
https://discord.gg/yWKYbB
Why do people love to be known as scammers.
I don't see it to be hard in doing real stuffs.
I've written about such kind of activities and scam on Steemit and how it's harmful for our community.
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Dear @louis88
My good friend @juanmolina shared link to your post with me today. Definetly worth reading.
I've already noticed that some youtubers are sharing their work on steem blockchain. And I found it kind of irritating. They do not care about engaging with their audience and are trying to promote their content by posting in random communities.
I figured that I will keep muting those who post within project.hope hive and on top of that I will be opening their youtube to click "dislike" and drop some negative comment.
It didn't hit me, that perhaps those users are not related to owners. However I found it hard to believe and most of the time I think youtubers are trying to use our resources (popular hives) to promote their videos.
Have a pleasant monday,
Yours, Piotr
Hi there.
To make one thing clear - the original authors on Youtube are not at fault and should not be disadvantaged by this. The problem is the fake-steem users who illegally publish the content of the original authors and pretend to be the original author with their accounts.
On the other hand you should rather try to make the original authors on Youtube aware of the advantages of Steem / Communities, so that they can also publish their content here and build a community.
Dear @louis88
Thank you for your prompt reply. However what to do if someone who is running youtube channnel decide to create account on steem and is promoting his own youtube videos within our hive? Without even trying to engage with anyone, without replying to comments. This is also quite common problem.
It's surely not easy to tell who is just "dumping ads" of his channel, hoping to get some traffic. And who is trying to make some extra $$$ (worth nothing). Both parties surely are annoying.
I'm sure you've came across at least few youtubers. Their mindset is different. They hardly care about engaging with audience and creating discussions. I'm not sure if any youtuber can do well on steem.
Yours, Piotr
Congratulations @louis88!
Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
Wow... That's crazy!
Original creators are amazing. Thank you for saying something. Yeah this is why groups can and need to chase off spammer and plagerist accounts.
Original content creators are amazing...
I have to congratulate all the research work you must have done in order to make this publication.
I think it's not the first time I've seen spam problems on this Social Network, but this one that uses content from YouTube video producers without their consent is a new form of spam for me
Nice work!
Small note: fettgedruckten User -> "users in bold" oder "bolded users", statt "thick marked users".
Just thought you might find it useful in the future!
I've been coming across a few of these annoyingly posting the "panda" videos in the homesteading tag and started taking note of them. You've already got some familiar ones up there, do you have @joiconbullqua and @bronosconmo too? I couldn't find them in your list, but may have overlooked them.
Who is more stupid:
A girl with Dawn Syndrome or Extreme Communists who don't understand basic economy?
How dare you?
Shame on you, such a comparison is discriminatory and very rude.
What's wrong with using the stake they legally bought with their hard eaened money? Are you just trying to destroy community here?
Did u read the Post?
i know u are not the real Justin - so please... don't waste time.
I am as real as every other Justin. #Downvoted for not supporting Justin Sun.