a little investigation...
I noticed that this fraud posing as "prettygirl"...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@prettygirl/hey-steemers-if-you-had-a-thousand-dollars#@simoneighties/re-condra-re-prettygirl-hey-steemers-if-you-had-a-thousand-dollars-20160803t163116531z
stole the verification picture from this girl:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@doe/hi-steemit--i-m-doe-a-cartoon-animator-storyboarder-illustrator-and-all-things-related-or
also looking at his other posts it is all mostly plagiarized content:
https://steemit.com/@prettygirl
then I looked at his wallet and saw he transferred his little earnings to his main account "gamnama".
https://steemit.com/@prettygirl/transfers
which is a reputation (7) account with a post that earned over 2k (and plagiarized from sheknows.com).
https://steemit.com/@gamnama
a look at his wallet shows he received payments from a series of scam accounts (most of them now banned).
https://steemit.com/@gamnama/transfers
all the material he and his minnion accounts post is all ripped off the net as google image/ text search shows.
such scammers should be penalized and not rewarded if the reputation system is to be taken seriously.
hopefully @cheetah @anyx @ned @dan @smooth can sort it out. but also the community needs to be more proactive ( right click > "search google for image" unmasks many of these shams)
I had someone copy an entire post of mine word for word and only change the pic. Wasn't detected by any bot. I found it because I happened to be browsing the new page and it popped up.
Another thing I have noticed is several times after I make a thread about something another person will make a tread on the exact same subject but rewrite it to look more appealing to people. I'm not a writer so it's easy for someone who is to do. At least 2 of those posts submitted not even an hour after mine made hundreds while I got pennies.
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I can only give you one penny, but I feel for you brother.
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this is bad
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1 user multiple accounts..shame shame shame..
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Steemit doesn't work
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