EDIT: HE HAS NOW ADMITTED EVERYTHING DIRECTLY (see comments). My agreement with him was to make a public apology post on his blog, detailing everything. I will stop flagging his content when that happens.
(Apologies in advance: due to all the screen caps, this post is a bit of an assault on the eyes as far as formatting goes. I request your forbearance.)
I did not wish to post this until I was almost positive, and there can be little doubt now. First, let me give you an example of what was posted:
^He spelled his name wrong, I guess.
I apologize to @krazykrista for reposting this retardation, but I think it is important to call this guy out. Note the lack of capitalization and the use of emojis.
^These are the types of things the "mystery user" was posting using my picture and slightly altered profile name.
I will reiterate this point later, before I share our private chat for comparison, but notice the writing style used in the two phony profiles, "Armina" (directly below) and "kafkanarchy82". Also, notice the admission in the photo below that "Bilal is still here."
Same to @tecnosgirl.
##################### BILAL HAIDER
From his blog. Note the lack of punctuation and spaces before question marks.
Notice the self-description and writing style.
####################### BILAL HAIDER
This is the guy I am referring to, who I assert has made the above phony accounts "kafkanarchy82" and "Armina" on Steemit Chat.
A FEW THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGES ABOVE:
- Frequent use of emojis.
- Never capitalizes "i."
- Space before question marks.
- Admission that he is "Bilal" in Armina post.
Here are several more examples to cross-reference. Finally, I have included snippets from our private chat.
^Space before question marks.
^Emojis.
^Random, mid-sentence punctuation and space before question marks.
^Threatens that Bilal is a "coder" (programmer).
^Random, mid-sentence punctuation and space before question marks.
^Emojis, lack of capitalization.
Please compare these to the following screen caps of our private conversation:
^Emojis, random, mid-sentence punctuation, lack of capitalization, admits knowing who created "Armina" profile.
Nope. It is not settled. I am not gong to waste all my SP flagging this guy, but certainly some of it. If you are still not convinced, go check out his profile HERE. I don't think it is cool to pretend to be someone else using their picture. To lie about it or refuse to tell when confronted is also not cool. I hope this guy will be run off the platform swiftly.
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
He can't stop.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@bilalhaider/people-flagging-me-for-no-reason-whales-help-me#@bilalhaider/re-kafkanarchy84-re-bilalhaider-people-flagging-me-for-no-reason-whales-help-me-20170727t121641719z
I won't stop flagging until you complete the agreement. I want a public post on your blog detailing everything and apologizing. And also for the shit you just said a few seconds ago in the chat to me. Good luck.
I helped out. We must do our best to stop people who are disrespectful and deceitful!
oh man... fraudsters and poop-faces everywhere!
but I see resistance is growing! Keep up the fight and thanks for making your findings public! I know it feels weird to accuse someone with just "indicative" evidence, no matter how obvious it is!
I've never seen this level of scamming and spamming since i started last year.
People's patience with this is wearing thin, it needs to come to an end.
absolutely! it's good to see these cases getting so much attention lately (or maybe that's just perception bias because I started paying more attention?!)
Holy shit! Great to know.
This is an investigation well done and you are correct, it is bilalhaider. It's good to spread the word though, but I doubt he'll keep up with this nonsense much longer.
It's a shame he picked your nickname to be used, though he couldn't do even that properly. He had at least 2 other fake nicknames he used to "troll" the chat.
Ughh.. what a horrible thing to go through!
I hope that the guy disappears now for good.
Thanks. Me too. I tried to reason with him and even help him start again. Didn't work out, though. Can't have this type of stuff going on.
What does he stand to gain by running you down? This is interesting, I've seen my share of trolls, but this is taking trolling to the absurd limit.
He chose me as I was a friend of those he was talking trash to, apparently.
People will soon run him off here as his MO is not needed here.
I would encourage everyone to throw a few flags his way.
Yeah, that will go a long way to putting a stop to this.
it's incredible how some people will waste their time lol
Lol. Dude, it truly is.
so many fake people try to scam now days i hate scammer
Not cool at all :(
am just wondering why did he do all of this shitty things Is It to made himself famous !! and he end up ruined his reputation and kicked out of this platform .
when I saw his recent post I feel he was a victim but when the complete picture revealed , he got what he deserve from his awful action
hopefully we won't see people like him again.
@kafkanarchy84 I thought he was right in the beginning I think I must say sorry for believing this shit I know what you felt because it happen to me once on facebook and I know it sucks
I am sorry Graham that he decided to use your name and profile picture in all this. I am nearly positive he did because I went on your show and he saw the post. But thank you for your support and all the love your followers is just another example of how Steemit is not regular social media where this type of behavior is accepted. Kindness goes a lot further than trolling and rudeness.
No worries. Glad it is sorted out for now. Nobody's fault but his. It's a shame.
No apology needed, I saved the meme to use it if I ever needed to, I am so sorry he targeted you and is doing this. Good job investigating..
I would just like to say @krazykrista and @tecnosgirl you are both absolutely lovely! @kafkanarchy84 I am so sorry this happened to you and I will flag the offender.
Thanks onetree :)
I'm so glad to see him out of the chat now. He was causing so many issues from the very first message he had in the chat. From spamming about how many followers he had repeatedly, insulting people, claiming he was a hacker, and then the progression to imitating people.
Thanks for standing up @kafkanarchy84 and thankfully @acidyo has muted all known accounts so hopefully we won't hear from him again for a good long while.
I hate impersonation , good you found this person
Followed
Nice vork:)
Very good job @kafkanarchy84!
Great work @kafkanarchy84 . Copy pasting is another thing but impersonating someone is whole lot bad. Falgging him was that right thing to do. I hope gets some lesson from this post.
You can pretty much tell he's a douche from his follow-4-follow strategy.
He is indeed crazy, the best thing is that you caught him :) Soon he will be run out
Good to know that he has been flagged....impersonation is not a good thing..it destroy the reputation of the original person ...
Very good that you make post... I did not look this ... now I see .
Haha, I'm surprised you found him. Nice to see him get slammed. Well if we all join in... We could take down this whale!
I hate to say I agree, but yes. Vote as you see fit. Once he makes an apology post detailing everything on his blog, I will stop downvoting him. Until then, I will keep doing it.
I muted that account now and removed him from #general.
We don't need people like him in this community.
@kafkanarchy84 Scamming has been gradually increasing on Steemit along with its popularity. Upvoted for your action. Here is my post to support you: https://steemit.com/steemit/@pijushmitra/bilalhaider-abuses-kafkanarchy84-via-memo-after-getting-exposed
@beingnaveed
See, what the peeps of our country are doing on this platform, told you yesterday :(
Looks like he chose the wrong guy to impersonate. Bravo to you for quickly figuring out who did this. I saw this guy on chat a time or two. He's a right dick.
check this one too @fatema, copying images from the internet and posting it as her own. is there any steem.chat channel to report these people?
Autocomment exploit example:
https://steemit.com/abuse/@sigmundfreud/educational-example-how-to-exploit-steem-auto-comment-special-thanks-to-craigemslie
what theeee....
Very strange post, I like this post. @naz722
I am curious why you continue to spam comments with the obvious negative consequences.
You don't seem to be a bot, as each of your comments is unique, but you never say anything substantive. Why?