@chekohler was a hard case. First of all, when you see an account registered on the blockchain from October 2017, with a reputation of 75, and most of all, a reputation built with the help of reputable accounts such as @blocktrades and @themarkymark, one cannot imagine that this reputation was actually built on base of fraudulent actions.
No one would start investigating him.
Well, we did. And the surprise was very big for us too.
We must admit that we have not investigated the posts of a very long period of time. It was enough to check the active posts for the week and a little before them.
They all were produced in the same way - photos from the Internet without mentioning the source + copy/paste of parts of various articles from the Internet.
In short, outright plagiarism.
Financial analysis, football-related posts, movie reviews - it's all done that way.
We have not investigated how long this user has been using the platform in this way, but it seems this have been done for a very long time.
You can view all of his marked posts with comments from the HWs, in which they provide the source of his plagiarism. In addition, it should also be clear that none of the photos in his posts, whether he mentioned a source or not, were taken by him, so there always had to be provided a source of it.
This account still exists and is active on the blockchain. He now publishes once a day, not twice as before.
He looks completely "clean" at the moment. No one downvotes him anymore, but after the support from the aforementioned large accounts has been withdrawn, the rewards he receives are much smaller than the previous ones.
Therefore, we still cannot determine whether this case is closed or not.
It is obviously not. But it feels like that. Because it is clear that this account has no future on this platform. And this is how it should be.
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