Recently two accounts, related to the bellyrub bot scammed thousands of dollars worth steem and then the steem was send to poloniex. But all the steem powered up in those accounts are still there. It will take 13 weeks to withdraw all the money.
The account with public owner key "STM7AftwozXuX6nf8gG4NUoXMwcDitGbQu4dZCZ9UYeKyn5FbrLz2" has 12000 steem in his account. That is quite a lot of steem if he is able to get away with that. These funds can be freezed by a hardfork and then sent to people who were scammed. If majority or all of witnesses agree to this, then it is possible.
Doing this will deter further scammers from doing something or attempting something like this on steem. The following changes are required.
To make it happen, the private owner key of both of the accounts will need to be changed. If all the witnesses agree to that, then this minor wallet address change will prevent the scammer from accessing his funds. The change is required on the wallets with the following two public owner keys.
STM7AftwozXuX6nf8gG4NUoXMwcDitGbQu4dZCZ9UYeKyn5FbrLz2
STM4twTQHH5H25oKcVtCWbgD8Hnzt1rdyvs4SX7xgMqc1cVCz1A1b
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