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Sherlock Holmes

@sherlockholmes

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Sep 30, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

Case 12: @rtdcs is growing a gang of sock-puppets

## Accusation: About three weeks ago I received the following message: > https://steemit.com/@rtdcs > check who upvote for him > this guy can make ~100 accounts in 2 weeks... > idk man I…

191 upvotes 138 replies $20.16
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Sep 22, 2017, 11:58 AM UTC

Case 11: Aliexpress and some voting-bots, making rewards without an effort!

## Accusation: A few days ago, an anonymous tipster sent me this link and a simple question: > "Is this ok or should I flag this?" So let us take a look, a low effort spam-post featuring a single…

155 upvotes 118 replies $17.51
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Sep 16, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

Cookie Crumbs 3: Accountsquatting with a Bonus & Addressing a Neccessary Change in HF20

During my investigations, I often come across some less relevant cases, stories from the past or inconclusive leads. Some I may find worth mentioning, I will present them to you as "Cookie Crumbs". #…

104 upvotes 54 replies $18.28
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Sep 9, 2017, 3:43 AM UTC

Observations: Why drawing a steemit logo isn't proof of authenticity.

This one is going to be a bit funny, in a sad way. ## The Situation: It's now a little over a week ago that I had posted about a rather ridiculous case of impersonation. The accounts of @ravenrillay…

165 upvotes 1 downvotes 62 replies $24.88
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Sep 6, 2017, 11:08 AM UTC

Case 10: Your wife loves to upvote your spam!

ATTENTION: The culprits have responded to this case and are willing to make amends. Please see the footer and the comment section for the latest updates! ## Accusation: @swelker101 from the @minnowsu…

152 upvotes 93 replies $22.30
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Sep 1, 2017, 2:12 AM UTC

Case 9: The @ecoworld conspiracy - identifying 4,766 + 1 cheating accounts

## Accusation: It is not really an accusation this time, it is more of a known fact that @ecoworld has abused the reward pool. Many users have approached me about this, well, not this incident specif…

393 upvotes 109 replies $60.34
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Aug 30, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

Observations: the recent blacklisting of @andrianna

This is not a concluded case with undeniable evidence. The following observations are merely some facts I could find concerning current events. ## The Situation: Just recently a few artist's steemit…

126 upvotes 110 replies $17.44
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Aug 29, 2017, 4:10 PM UTC

Cookie Crumbs 2: Impudent Impersonation in a 2-for-1 Value Pack

During my investigations on bigger cases, I will usually come across some small fish, too. Obvious cases, barely worth mentioning, but to keep you entertained, i will present some of them to you as "…

107 upvotes 27 replies $12.79
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Aug 22, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

Case 8: Stumbling over a few fake talents again

## Accusation: I was recently asked to look into the background of a flag-war being carried out on steemit. The flagging was, as so often, sadly, only being carried out on the basis of personal views…

188 upvotes 1 downvotes 121 replies $43.69
Sherlock Holmes
@sherlockholmes Aug 16, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

Case 7.1: how a spammer revealed a scammer - ft. a greedy kid telling stupid lies

## Accusation: During my investigations for Case 7, I stumbled upon, what initially looked like a promising clue. While inspecting the "farm-grounds", old posts that were used to post spam-comments,…

115 upvotes 64 replies $22.43