Abuse Report - An 80+ rep account neck deep in Multi-account and Farming Abuse (@alokkumar121)

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](https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/future-of-crypto-and-btc) a few days later. He went on to introduce himself a couple of weeks after that. Here is his [intro post](https://peakd.com/introduceyourself/@alokkumar121/introducing-myself-in-steemit-working-full-time-project-manager-in-singapore) if someone is curious. He would share posts on a variety of things, ranging from [photography posts](https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/evening-view-random-photosjzrmyw6) to [crypto news](https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/bitbns-indian-crypto-exchnage-have-introduced-a-new-method-of-deposit-and-withdrawal-of-inr-this-service-is-not-like-p2p). He later discovered Actifit and started writing [Actifit reports](https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/actifit-alokkumar121-20181129t153236464z) 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](https://peakd.com/@reeta0119/hello-everyone-my-introduction-to-steem-xjnnoxa9) 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](https://peakd.com/@mukund123/my-introduction-to-lovely-steemit-family) 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. |  |  | |-|-| --- 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 `` --- `` (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. |  |  | |-|-| |[https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/dcommerce-launched-after-closing-dstors-new-beginning-2sfjnsch](https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/dcommerce-launched-after-closing-dstors-new-beginning-2sfjnsch)|[https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/ripmxdou](https://peakd.com/@alokkumar121/ripmxdou)| --- |||| |-|-|-| |[https://peakd.com/post/@reeta0119/tasteem-bb3d3b](https://peakd.com/post/@reeta0119/tasteem-bb3d3b)|[https://peakd.com/post/@reeta0119/tasteem-7d88d1](https://peakd.com/post/@reeta0119/tasteem-7d88d1)|[https://peakd.com/post/@reeta0119/my-cooking-for-indian-traditional-food-ladyfinger-veg-and-chapati](https://peakd.com/post/@reeta0119/my-cooking-for-indian-traditional-food-ladyfinger-veg-and-chapati)| --- ||| |-|-| |[https://peakd.com/post/@mukund123/my-intro-to-leofinance-family-newlion](https://peakd.com/post/@mukund123/my-intro-to-leofinance-family-newlion)|[https://peakd.com/post/@mukund123/more-excitement-in-splinterlands-this-september](https://peakd.com/post/@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. ||| |-|-| || ||| ||| ||| ||| --- 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. ||| |-|-| ||| ||| ||| --- 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) || |-|-| |[Alokkumar121](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG-YpVySWx0) - Posted 2 years ago| [Mukund123](https://peakd.com/post/@mukund123/wish-you-very-happy-deepawali-all-members-nu0h5pqy) - 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](https://peakd.com/@wlffreitas/re-leothreads-2fjttdrcj). 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. And  --- 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](https://peakd.com/hive-151961/@reeta0119/gejenrwpmx#@reeta0119/re-wlffreitas-202384t20734774z). --- 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. ![](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/anonyi/23tGVGGwbbxHwzczxgHuEBi8xH79rnwtwGvTkVht4hWX1VDRRZp5rNN