Here is an update on the fresh cases of spam/plagiarism.
And this time, the same group of repeat offenders is now using a different methodology to deceive curators. These spammer/plagiarists are now creating a dummy post to register their participation in the Steemit crypto Academy, and after a few hrs, they are editing the content and copying it from another source(precisely from another participant) to make it appear as if the source(another participant) is a plagiarist (on the premise of Timestamp).
Crypto Academy | Season 2 | Task-2
Plagiarist | Post link | Date | Created Time | Edited Time | Original Source | Original- Created Time |
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@tanujadon | Link | 2021-04-18 | 10:16 | 13:16 | Source | 12:07 |
Link | 2021-04-18 | 14:00 | 19:28 | Source | 18:57 | |
Link | 2021-04-23 | 11:23 | 14:33 | Source | 13:36 | |
@agarwalalisha | Link | 2021-04-18 | 8:48 | 12:23 | Source | 11:29 |
Link | 2021-04-18 | 13:24 | 16:28 | Source | 14:31 | |
Link | 2021-04-23 | 7:54 | 10:01 | Source | 9:11 |
Case-1 (@tanujadon)
Timestamp- 2021-04-18, 10:16
- @tanujadon(a repeat offender) first created his post on 2021-04-18 at 10:16 Hrs
- Then he edited it at 10:17 Hrs with an image.
- At 13:16 Hrs, he copied the content of @abdulqayyum95857(who created his post at 12:07 Hrs)
Now, if a curator goes by the Timestamp, then it appears to be @abdulqayyum95857 as the plagiarist, but NO, it's @tanujadon(who is a repeat offender) who has copied it from @abdulqayyum95857.
Case-2 (@tanujadon)
Timestamp- 2021-04-18, 14:00
- @tanujadon(a repeat offender) first created his post on 2021-04-18 at 14:00 Hrs
- Then he edited it at 14:04 Hrs with an image.
- At 19:28 Hrs, he copied the content of @tmighty(who created his post at 18:57 Hrs)
Now, if a curator goes by the Timestamp, then it appears to be @tmighty as the plagiarist, but NO, it's @tanujadon(who is a repeat offender) who has copied it from @tmighty.
Case-3 (@tanujadon)
Timestamp- 2021-04-23, 11:23
- @tanujadon(a repeat offender) first created his post on 2021-04-23 at 11:23 Hrs
- At 14:33 Hrs, he copied the content of @hammadahmed112(who created his post at 13:36 Hrs)
Now, if a curator goes by the Timestamp, then it appears to be @hammadahmed112 as the plagiarist, but NO, it's @tanujadon(who is a repeat offender) who has copied it from @hammadahmed112.
Case-4 (@agarwalalisha)
Timestamp- 2021-04-18, 08:48
- @agarwalalisha(a repeat offender) first created his post on 2021-04-18 at 08:48 Hrs
- Then she edited it at 14:04 Hrs with an image.
- At 12:23 Hrs, she copied the content of @gema777(who created his post at 11:29 Hrs)
Now, if a curator goes by the Timestamp, then it appears to be @gema777 as the plagiarist, but NO, it's @agarwalalisha(who is a repeat offender) who has copied it from @gema777.
Case-5 (@agarwalalisha)
Timestamp- 2021-04-18, 13:24
- @agarwalalisha(a repeat offender) first created his post on 2021-04-18 at 13:24 Hrs
- Then she edited it at 14:04 Hrs, 13:41 Hrs, 14:09 Hrs respectively with an image.
- At 16:28 Hrs, she copied the content of @ribbly(who created his post at 14:31 Hrs)
Now, if a curator goes by the Timestamp, then it appears to be @ribbly as the plagiarist, but NO, it's @agarwalalisha(who is a repeat offender) who has copied it from @ribbly.
Case-6 (@agarwalalisha)
Timestamp- 2021-04-23, 07:54
- @agarwalalisha(a repeat offender) first created his post on 2021-04-23 at 07:54 Hrs
- At 10:01 Hrs, she copied the content of @perozo23(who created his post at 09:11 Hrs)
Now, if a curator goes by the Timestamp, then it appears to be @perozo23 as the plagiarist, but NO, it's @agarwalalisha(who is a repeat offender) who has copied it from @perozo23.
Plagiarism is an act of stealing the content of others and representing it as their own content and/or passing off content without acknowledgment of the real authorship.
This insidious form of plagiarism should be appropriately responded by the community to tidy up the Steemit Crypto Academy. The pending rewards should be returned back to the reward pool.
We request the professors- @alphafx @levycore @imagen @yousafharoonkhan to reverse their curation judgment on these posts.
We will keep fighting this good fight. The coordinated community effort will defeat such malicious/bad actors.
Thank you.
Cc:-
@steemcurator01
@steemcurator02
Cc:-
@endingplagiarism, @kiwi-crypto, @neerajkr03, @starlord28, @abcallen, @alphafx, @kouba01, @fendit, @imagen, @pelon53, @yousafharoonkhan, @levycore, @yohan2on, @stream4u
Great work @sapwood. The amount of patience that it takes to spot such tricksters is very high. Great work in spotting this one.
One more thing I noticed is with the achievement 1 task of @tanujadon . He has clearly used a photoshopped picture for verification.
Here, you can see that nothing written on paper is actually hand-written. It looks like this user has photoshopped his name over here.
These are some of the fraud that we can avoid in the future @tarpan @cryptokannon @steemcurator03.
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Yes, I have also spotted that previously when I checked his profile.
Thank you.
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@steemcurator01 sent a notice to all but these two links need your downvote as they have already been voted by @steemcurator02
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This is a very cunning way
Well done for catching them @sapwood
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Thank you.
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