I don't know how to start this one. So, I will begin from the start. But before starting, I would appeal that you read the post entirely before making your own conclusions.
The devil is in the details.
@alokkumar121 joined Steemit on 22nd June 2018 and posted his first post a few days later. He went on to introduce himself a couple of weeks after that. Here is his intro post if someone is curious.
He would share posts on a variety of things, ranging from photography posts to crypto news.
He later discovered Actifit and started writing Actifit reports in late November 2018. This is an important part of this story. He becomes an Actifit moderator in only a month or so.
He became so active that he consistently published 3–5 posts daily. There's nothing wrong so far, a lot of Steemians were doing the same around that time.
He onboarded his wife to the blockchain. Meet @reeta0119, she joined on 12th March 2019 and published her introduction post on the same day. Here is the most important section from that intro post.
My name is Reeta and I am from India. I got to know about steemit through @alokkumar121 and after few months of his convinced approach I finally decided to be a part of this amazing steem world.
I have been listening a lot about steem through my husband (alok) since many months and he also wanted me to join it. I said yes to him finally few days back.
She would post only Actifit reports for a couple of months. Most of these 'reports' would be just a couple of sentences with an activity counter so you can get AFIT tokens and their upvotes. And with her husband being an actifit moderator and curator (also, with how Actifit worked), she would always be guaranteed an upvote from Actifit. That's still fine in my books.
Now, a 'friend' of @alokkumar121 joins Steemit on 25th May 2019 (a couple of months after Reeta). This friend is @mukund123 and shared his introduction post a few later later.
I joined Steem platform after invite of my friend @alokkumar121 and I just love actifit app. I had never thought of that such kind of app even exit. Though I am not much tech-savvy but eager to learn all these things. My friend Alok explained me about steem and actifit and since the day I joined, I work on it daily and post regularly.
This account would start posting Actifit reports just like Reeta's account.
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I will show you how @alokkumar121 is using the other two accounts to milk rewards from Hive and how these accounts are run by him. One of the best methods to prove if the account is just run by one individual is to analyze their writing style, Markdown syntax and HTML tags usages along with common grammatical errors that are unique to them.
Use of ** ** for a horizontal line
Most of us already know that you can do a horizontal line on your post by either using <hr> (HTML formatting tag) or by using one of the ---, *** or ___ (Markdown formatting)
These markdown methods work with more than three dash or asterisks too. And weirdly enough it somehow works if you do ** **. I tested them in peakd editor and they work.
Now, will you agree that using ** ** (space between two asterisks on both sides) instead of *** (three asterisks without space) is not the standard and a very weird mistake. One can make this mistake once in a while. But imagine all three accounts making the same mistakes for months in multiple posts?
I will share some examples here. More can be found if you look at their old posts.
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| @alokkumar121/dcommerce-launched-after-closing-dstors-new-beginning-2sfjnsch | @alokkumar121/ripmxdou |
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| @reeta0119/tasteem-bb3d3b | @reeta0119/tasteem-7d88d1 | @reeta0119/my-cooking-for-indian-traditional-food-ladyfinger-veg-and-chapati |
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| @mukund123/my-intro-to-leofinance-family-newlion | @mukund123/more-excitement-in-splinterlands-this-september |
Just a coincidence? Each other copying their mistakes and then all fixed those mistakes after some time and never repeating them?
By further examining the writing style and small quirks in their writing you will see how the author of all three accounts is same.
Use of .. (two dots) instead of ... (three dots/ellipsis)
I thought ChatGPT will do a better job of explaining this mistake.
But our guy @alokkumar121 picked up this mistake from somewhere and used two dots instead of three dots. Maybe that is how he learned it and once you learn something and it becomes a habit, it is quite tough to fix it and relearn it. I don't blame him for this mistake because English is not his first language. But how many people you seen making the same mistakes, maybe some? But what are the chances that all three accounts are doing the same mistake for years now?
Let me share some of the examples here. Feel free to search the blockchain and you will find more examples of the same. Also, I am suspecting they are using some sort of grammar checker like Grammarly or web extension to write posts because there is a significant difference in grammar and punctuation among their posts and comments.
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I couldn't find the discord account of @mukund123, didn't look hard enough. But the others were consistent with this mistake even on discord.
Similar Thumbnails and Interests in similar communities
This one is quite interesting and once you see it you can't unsee it. He has been using a similar style of thumbnails for most of his posts, especially posts which are 3 to 1-year-old. Now, he is trying to make it a bit different, but this blockchain remembers everything.
Can you notice the similarities? A background color, with a few icons in the middle and a title on top (or bottom of it). He did the bare minimum to make them unique like changing background colors, fonts and placement of some icons. How did people not see this? It's like he didn't even try to hide it.
He got in trouble because of how similar these accounts were and someone suspected him of running both the accounts. More on that story later.
Other similar grammar and punctuation mistakes
Alokkumar's grip on written English made it a bit easier for me. Now, look at this weird . thanks part which all of them use and the use of lowercase words after a full stop. This is much more common mistake than the rest of the above though.
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Are you convinced that the author of all three accounts is the same? These were the hard
evidence, now we can look at things a bit more on a personal level.
So, are you keeping up with the info? Can you tell me how @alokkumar121 and @reeta0119 are connected? They are a married couple.
And how are @alokkumar121 and @mukund123 connected? They are 'friends'.
Now, I will use some pictures. Usually it's not my style but I want to make the case even stronger (and I put too much effort into it already, so not sharing it here would be a waste of lot of hours... also I am using the photos/videos shared on the blockchain and they are publically available)
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| Alokkumar121 - Posted 2 years ago | Mukund123 - Posted 5 years ago |
Can you see any similarities in these 'friends'? Any similar features? Lips? Nose? Jaw and Cheeks? At worst, they are brothers.
(My assumption is Mukund is Alokkumar's brother if not him and made this account just to get the Actifit rewards but then shifted to his regular content to get more rewards.)
Also, is this how you talk to one of your friends/brother?
How are you this formal with your friend/brother? No way I am talking in a foreign language to my brother and thanking him for anything.
Even more hysterical is how he talks to his wife or how he talks about her to someone else. Let me show you examples of both.
“I also play this game”
If he is your husband, doesn't he know that already? The entire conversation is very formal and they are pretending that they don't know each other just like the conversation between Alok and Mukund.
A user got suspicious of @alokkumar121 and @reeta0119 account and had an argument on the chain. Here is one of their conversation.
There are a lot of comments so let me summarize it for you. @wlffreitas is claiming that Alok is having a second account Reeta and Alok is trying to defend it. @wlffreitas asks Alok why they both are writing on the same topic and rather than saying that she is his wife and she will write on similar topics. Alok claims that there are a lot of Indians that write about similar things. There are some talks about Downvotes too and he replied to that comment like this-
If you are concerned about her then go and talk to her. if she is getting DV then its not my problem.
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Is this how you talk about your wife?
Anyway, just three days after this conversation, @reeta0119 shared her 'first' 3speak video (she claims in the intro of the video). Very convenient.
This is her video taken from this post.
Well, the video looks forced. She reads a couple of sentences from a script (you can figure it out by looking closely at her eyes) and the middle part is just showing a random video of a river. And just before the closing of the video we see a thumbs up just like the start.
Let's analyze this video in more detail. Look at her hand carefully around 0:13 seconds.
She is wearing a red nail paint, not a fresh coat but enough so you can see it. Now, if you see her thumb with nail paint, it is almost a guarantee that she will have painted the other fingers too.
Now if you go to the end of the video, you will see another hand. But notice that there is no nail paint on this hand and it even looks different from the other one. On top of it, there is no face, hair or anything else visible at the end.
Now, tell me. Are they the same hand? Why she felt the need to upload her first 3speak video right after that conversation? This is a classic case of a husband recording his wife to gain a few extra bucks. Such a cheap act to earn money. Not only the wife, he used his kids too. There are some splinterlands art contest posts where you can see a small child’s hand drawing the artwork.
Now, what do you think about how many times @reeta0119 said 'Alok' (the name of her husband) on this blockchain? Well, she said it 6 years ago in her intro post and NEVER again! And how many times does she mention him? A total of 29 times only! Sounds like a lot but keep in mind she has been on this blockchain for 6 years now and wrote more than 3000 posts and double the number of comments. Surprisingly the last time she mentioned him was 5 years ago!
Is this normal? You would think that she is not making personal blogs but you are wrong. She makes a lot of personal blogs. A lot of blogs with her kids and her family but the only person missing from those posts is her husband, Alok.
Why would you do that unless you are deliberately trying to hide something. I went through hundreds of her posts and her YouTube channel. You can see her kids and family in like 100s of posts but not Alokkumaar, at least not in the post where I looked up. I didn't have the time to check all the thousands of posts one by one. But this is quite shocking already.
Also, @alokkumar121 mentioned his wife only 43 times (most of them are just tagging to participate in giveaways or something) out of 5000+ posts and 50,000+ comments he made. That is not normal, especially when both of them are so active and post in the same communities.
Also, most of the photos that she shares on her account are taken by someone else, not from her phone. You can see in the next shot, that she shared this photo instead of the photo of the sunset that she took from her own mobile. Why would you do that?
Circle Jerking and bad curation practices
Many were surprised when they found out this big account was part of a backscratcher trail. But this was not the first time he was engaging with these bad practices.
Alok and Reeta used the project Hope to their advantage and abused the bid bots back in Steemit days. Maybe it was a different time, so we will give them the benefit of doubt. But even on the Hive blockchain they were blacklisted a couple of times by @hivewatchers for being part of such circle voting schemes.
I agree with @hivewatchers statement that the high reputation has been acquired mostly by farming these trails and engaging in different schemes.
And keep in mind that both @alokkumar121 and @retta0119's accounts did these shady practices. Also, being part of Splinterlands curation team, @reeta0119 was almost upvoted the maximum percentage most of the time by @steemmonsters and they milked a lot from this project alone. Besides, they got regular upvotes from @leo.voter (I am not sure if Alok is part of the curation team or knows someone who is a curator there).
Apart from the occasional circle jerking and suspicious trails, he has a weird 'curation policy' of his own. The voting percentage of his votes depends on how big the author's upvote value is. If you are in 10K–20K HP range you would get somewhere like 10%-30% upvotes. If you are an orca or whale you will get 50%-100% of his upvote. He does it to 'maximize' the potential upvote he can get back (turns out if you keep upvoting a big account regularly with a good enough upvote, they will likely notice you and put you on auto vote or something. Even if they don't, you can try this strategy with another big account).
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| Top 10 Monthly Voting stats - @alokkumar121 | Top 10 Monthly Voting stats - @reeta0119 |
You will always find him upvoting the same bunch of people and never upvoting for newer or smaller accounts. How greedy a person can get?
Let's go back to @acidyo's comment which almost busted him but somehow he escaped or he was too 'big' to be pursued by other accounts?
Under that comment @wlffreitas and @dlmmqb added a few posts that were on similar topics. That was some lazy work from @alokkumar121.
Here you can see those posts.
Maya Protocol - by reeta0119, Posted on July 21, 2023
Maya Protocol - by alokkumar121, Posted on July 20, 2023
Kingdom 2D game - by reeta0119, Posted on July 19, 2023
Kingdom 2D game - by alokkumar121, Posted on July 18, 2023
But did you think this was all? There are more accounts this guy runs.
Meet @shriram19, @reeta.fit and @prefix
@reeta.fit and @prefix are posting just actifit content. Both have the same memo as @mukund123 and have the similar writing style. These accounts don't have intro posts.
Let me show you a clear link of all these accounts.
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| Common memo with @reeta0119 | Common memo with @shriram19 |
@shriram19 is an important one that we need to look closely. Just like @reeta0119 and @mukund123, this account was introduced by @alokkumar121, started his blogs with Actifit posts, wrote some posts in Hindi and then one day magically switched to English with good crypto knowledge and splinterlands. (All these can be curated by @alokkumar121 easily).
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| similar content with similar thumbnails, topics, community etc. | Just like @reeta0119 and @mukund123, they started in Hindi actifit reports |
I found this account while I was writing this post. Because there is no common memo between them, they never interact with each other. But @reeta0119 upvotes this account. That raised my eyebrows, because this greedy person rarely upvotes someone with low HP numbers. When I saw the accounts, everything was clear.
He claims to be someone else and shared a selfie of a person. That's the only photo this account shared, multiple times on different occasions. Here is the introduction post of @shriram19
When you look at the post in its raw form, you will see the selfie is a screenshot. Why would someone upload a screenshot of a selfie? My guess is this was taken from a profile picture in web2 social media like Facebook or Instagram.
Other writing patterns like the unique punctuation mistakes etc. were the same in this account as well.
There is another connection which connects all these accounts and that is transferring funds to one account.
Alok created an account last year which facilitates the exchange of Crypto to/from local currency. This makes a lot of sense on the surface as crypto is taken seriously in India and centralized exchanges are hand in hand with the government. So, many people would prefer p2p exchanges or crypto transactions. @cryptoswap is the account's username.
But this became a tool for getting all the funds from his other accounts along with some genuine accounts so the connection cannot be established. Clever whitewashing attempt if you ask me.
I just want to make it clear that I am not accusing any other accounts other than I mentioned here.
Let me show you the transactions to @cryptoswap account along with blocktrades accounts which have common memos.-
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You would be wondering how one person can be active in multiple accounts. But let me tell you most of the posts are about splinterlands, or random tokens. How much time it takes to talk about how much SPS you staked and why you think it is the next big thing, and what is your target? I suspect it would take no more than 20 minutes, especially for someone who has been writing similar posts for more than 5 years.
A breakdown of the time would be something like this… (It might be a bit subjective but I am basing it on their interaction and posts that I can see on the blockchain)
| Account | Type of Content | Time it takes to write a post | Time it takes for commenting | Posting frequency |
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| @prefix | Only Actifit Reports | 5 mins | 0 mins (No comments) | Daily |
| @reeeta.fit | Only Actifit Reports | 5 mins | 0 mins (No comments) | Daily |
| @shriram19 | Splinterlands, Crypto News | 20 mins | 1 min (1 comment a day) | 3-5 posts per week |
| @mukund123 | Splinterlands, Crypto News | 20 mins | 0 mins (not commenting anymore) | 1-2 per month |
| @reeta0119 | Splinterlands, Crypto News, occasionally travel/personal blogs, | 20-25 mins | 5–10 mins (4-5 threads/comments daily) | Daily |
| @alokkumar121 | Splinterlands, Crypto News | 20 mins | 20 mins (mostly for curation jobs) | Daily |
So, the total time would be around two hours. Even if you add another hours or two into it. It will still be four hours per day which is easily doable, especially for the amount of money he is earning from all these accounts.
Let me clarify that it is perfectly fine to have multiple accounts but having those accounts to write posts (mostly shit posts) and hiding identity of those accounts or worse, making a new identity, and exploiting your wife (and kids, you can see them in YouTube videos too) to earn money is wrong on so many levels. You have been deceiving the entire community for years now.
Also, he made twitter accounts of @reeta0119 and @mukund123 after they created their Steem account. He also verified @reeta0119's account through twitter verification after he thought he might get in trouble with @hivewatchers.
I am omitting some more details here, I think the post is already an overkill and a long read. Don't want to waste more time of the readers. But in case, someone wants more details or explanation about specific things related to these account, just tell it in the comments.
Don't take my word for it and look it up for yourself, I have shared a lot of links already. So, this will be a good place to start your own research. You will end up with the same conclusion as mine. I have already spent over 100 hours researching into all these accounts and it took me weeks to write this post due to my busy schedule. But still there are chances that I missed some more accounts linked with them. Let me know in the comments if you have any more info on this case.
Also, thanks to @wlffreitas work too. It helped me in this case. I hope people would be less interested to know my identity unlike the last post. And Btw, @iskawrites @sabrinah ... I am not @b0s or @wlffreitas or any other person you claim to be, nor I am part of Hive watchers. (I suggest you seek medical help).
I will tag some influential community members or people who might be interested in this. Hive should know about this big ongoing abuse.
@hivewatchers @leofinance @leo.voter @splinterlands @actifit @livinguktaiwan @nathan007 @azircon @stoodkev @solominer @yabapmatt @indiaunited @bhattg @bala41288 @ecency @dlmmqb @chaosmagic23 @acidyo @rantree @bitcoinman @antisocialist @guiltyparties @libertycrypto27 @nainaztengra @alphahippie @artofadamada
Sorry for the tag spam, but the community should know about this big abuse.
Last but not least, a big thanks to @yaziris for his @hivediscomod bot that make it easier to look up information about accounts. Such an awesome research tool!