We see that people have been gaming the account creation and rep system for byteball airdrops for accounts of 30 and 40 rep.
Byteball has put out a mechanism to thwart this.
https://medium.com/byteball/steem-attestation-announcement-modified-rules-4d1bc4bf4458
Here is an example of the method that was published by a steemian on the net of how to Rape the Airdrop
https://thebot.net/threads/how-to-rape-the-gbyte-steemit-airdrop.407564/
We do however have another set of abuses of the Airdrop happening and this relates to the referral rewards. I've been able to replicate the process, another attestation fee amount is sent to the new account just before the attestation fee is paid. This results in the referral reward being sent to the sender of the second transaction.
This is the address of the sender:
44R37P66K2F3H3QBHAN6ULHYV3OWCAGI
and as we can see they have been pretty successful:
https://explorer.byteball.org/#44R37P66K2F3H3QBHAN6ULHYV3OWCAGI
Holy hell! That person is cashing out! It seems like @royalmarco has a solid solution.
I wish people were just thankful that byteball decided to do this and allow people to participate, rather than trying to scam the system. People are too greedy, take the 20-160 bucks and be done with the airdrop and help someone if they need a for tokens to get their wallet approved.
It is unfortunate that people find ways to take advantage of every situation.
To protect from this kind of abusing it is needed to change the system of rewarding.
Rep 50 to 55 reward $10
Rep 56 to 60 reward $20
Rep 61 to 65 reward $40
Rep 66 to 70 reward $80
Over 70 reward $160
I like your thinking how to make the changes so they wouldn't effect yourself :)
As to solving the byteball side of the problem downloading the wallet with a simple refferals code would be enough
As to steems side of the problem as in easy manipulation of the rep score especialy for the below 40 dunno seems very much connected to the problem of paid voting services as to the solution I don't know im a user not a dev
We know who many of theese scammers are snipping address from other peoples posts asking for attestation fee even though already attested Downvote the fuckers into the ground!
this also happened with me i am think they are just making fool of us. as we are really in need of $ they are just reading our mind set and trying to make us fool. by this process they wanna gain a huge popularity.
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He wants some byteball probably LOL
Not to make a fool, they want it to be popular, that's why all the user interaction and changing the rules only when there is too many cheaters. It would have been pointless airdrop if only 1000 people had heard about it, but now already almost 40 000 have done it. https://byteball.co/attestors
This happened to me...i never got rewards for my referral until we decided to check the referrals history and discovered another party somehow got my referrals rewards by sending in exact amount just after I had sent mine to the referral. Now i understand why i didn't get rewarded.
Its interesting. I read a post about byteball and signed up for a wallet. I sent in my payment and followed all the instructions on the chat but never recieved my airdrop. My rep is 59 so I expected some tokens. I only have enough to equal 11 cents. Not very happy with the whole thing. Perhaps I followed a bad referral to get there but since I made the wallet and sent in my payment I still should have gotten something. Hope it had nothing to do with a referral scam. I would have like to have $40 worth of byteball
What was the final reply from the attestation bot? After you make the payment of the attestation fee it should look like this.
I don't know how to screenshot the wallet chat from my desk top but I copied that chat text starting where I sent my payment, then proof of receipt of payment. Then you will notice a different message than yours above.
Payment: 49000 bytes 4:11 PM
Received your payment of 0.000049 GB. 4:11 PM
Now your steem username is attested, see the attestation unit: https://explorer.byteball.org/#Ggh0Ylq4Cz8igwcQdGNrXAsi+F5cIHsgIPhwWWBkWl0=
Click here to save the profile in your wallet: [Profile of cflclosers 58]. You will be able to use it to access the services that require a proven steem username.
Remember, we have a referral program: you get rewards by recommending new users to link their Steem and Byteball accounts. There are 3 ways to do it and ensure that the referrals are tracked to you:
➡ you send Bytes from your attested address to a new user who is not attested yet, and he/she uses those Bytes to pay for a successful attestation;
➡ have new users click this link (you can publish it e.g. on your blog) byteball:[email protected]/bb#LIYHSZKHRM2C3NHKQ2HLO65E3YNXOBOV, which opens this attestation bot in the user's wallet, the wallet has to be already installed;
➡ have new users click this link (you can publish it e.g. on your blog) https://steem-byteball.org/#LIYHSZKHRM2C3NHKQ2HLO65E3YNXOBOV which sets a tracking cookie and redirects to wallet download.
Your reward is exactly same as the new user's reward. 25% of your reward will be immediately available, the other 75% will be locked on a smart contract and can be spent after 1 year. 4:11 PM
this is interesting info.... Now I see what they make .
The best way would be to reduce the referral to maybe once in a week and screen out account with reputation less than 30
I'm all lost tompek how to let me back again ..
Spammers are misusing this airdrop. Steem has to raise the level and make the criteria for airdrop and at least eligibility for reputation 50. By this way spammers can be reduced to so much extent. Upvoted!!!
@gavvet It would have been better if they had done something to negate all that has happened.
recently many are trying to create a new account.
Yeah, there are lots of users who did Scam with this free airdrop. I was shocked when I read a blog by @themarkymark and he mentioned in that blog, that a user created more than 60 account to earn extra token free.
Why people are doing wrong with a great GBYTE coins free airdrop, people should be lesser Greedy..
Just imagine, with 60 accounts the scammers can get at least $600. That's a lot of money
Not man! He is blocked by @themarkymark
If you want to read blog just go to @themarkymark account and you will find there the full story of that guy..
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Gbyte garbage shitcoin. Dump it. Free money whatever.
no GBYTE have huge potential in future.. see the total supply it's only 1 million and team behind this.
How does this work exactly? Is the bot's communication public?
Of course not, Steem attestation bot is one-on-one.
OK, I read somewhere else that bots were reading the Steem blockchain, but I thought people were already making sure not to publish their address.
They may have started with reading Steem blockchain in the beginning and also writing because it appears that some bots are still posting Byteball addresses to every post that has #byteball mentioned.
I am not sure 100%, but it might have been that some bots later started reading Byteball DAG too, especially those accounts who were popular Steemians and sent 50 000 bytes to many people. And then the bots did the same thing.
Also, many people had a misunderstanding that if the bot asks 49 000 then they need to send that person 49 000, but actually this person needed more. So bots took advantage of that too by sending more accurate amount. I explained attestation fee and transaction costs in this post.
Thanks for statutory warning!!
Well!! Hie.. I'm a newbie.
Here is the link to my post. Upvote if you like the content. thanks!
https://steemit.com/creativity/@cherrythinks/echoes-poem-2-unfolding-life
Few hours back, I read a blog written by @themarkymark andhe made some new modification in Byteball free airdrop. Because few people were doing Scam with this free airdrops.
Byteball airdrop introduction is a great Idea for Steemitians but people are doing Scam with this Airdrop.
Past few days, Byteball Airdrop became big hype on Steemit but now new modifications in this free distribution are 1. For free airdrop token Account must be more than 6 months old and 2. Repo Should be more than 50.
@gavvet I think this step will help to stop scamming in Byteball Airdrop.
Users should be honest for any Free distribution Airdrop.
thanks for sharing your opinion for this airdrop.
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i hope you help me to reach reputation 30 by votes
this is my address to send the fee
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thanks
Seems they have started taking some measures : https://medium.com/byteball/steem-attestation-announcement-modified-rules-4d1bc4bf4458
I referred only one person, but yet to get any referral bonus. Have submitted details in their google form, waiting for a response.
@guyfawkes4-20 i think this is what happened to us. :-O
That explains why a friend of mine can not charge your reward easily I will have to tell you about this! Thanks for the information
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byteball:TRLROZFM3AOOL622MSHEV7SVOE2VHZ5F. I hope u will do it on mine sir,thank you to tell us
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