I did not want to come to this but this abuse has been going on for far too long. I have been here on Hive for quite some time now and this is just an account I created so it won't affect any of the projects and communities that I am a part of. No need to drag those into negative things like abuse reports.

A young girl @sabrinah joined Hive and posted her introduction post on Dec 15, 2023.

Her story starts a day before this, when (by her own admission) she found Hive on Dec 14, 2023 (her account was created the same day) after finding Inleo on X platform.

I found Inleo on X. I followed the link straight to sign up. I have been on something called threads in the last 24 hours. I love it. Yes, I will stick around.

She created a Discord account on the 14th as well. But she joined a lot of Discord servers; it didn't look like she was a newbie at all but an experienced user on both Discord and Hive. Maybe she is a smart one.

Let's read her intro post one more time. She said:

Now, more on writing. I started writing when I was 9. Just for fun. I could cook up an entire story in a day. It was what I did mostly. As I grew, I had numerous book stories I had written just piled up. It was my favorite run to but then, I wanted to branch out, so I learned content writing.

She has been writing since she was 9 years old and she can cook up an entire story in a day. She wrote a lot of stories yet she gave you no links to her previous work, no mention of her X account. (Maybe she wanted to start from a clean slate. Have a different anonymous account online. That's perfectly fine. A bit odd but nothing bad so far).

To understand the origin story of @sabrinah. I have to introduce you to some more accounts.

There are two public accounts @iskafan (where she writes financial articles in Leo Finance community) and @iskawrites (where she writes mostly fiction and non-fiction in communities like the InkWell and HiveLearners) from the same author. Let's just call her Iska from now on. Both of these accounts have been a bit inactive lately and both of them are on power down too.

@iskafan created an account on Sep 9, 2021 and wrote an impressive introduction post with all the necessary tags.

She would do proper sourcing of photos and would talk about the things she loves, including reading, writing, AI and finances. (Sounds familiar?). But she never mentioned how she came here on Hive. She never mentioned any other social media accounts outside Hive. (She would later create a Twitter account and add the link in her bio.)

When asked by someone how she joined Hive, she replied like this.

This has to be the craziest story I read. This could have easily happened too. And she wants to stay anonymous... that's perfectly fine too.

Later she would create another account @iskawrites, not as a hidden account but as an account to segment her writings. Nothing wrong with that too.

The next account is @edystringz, the oldest account so far. This was created on December 30, 2020. This ontroduction post is a bit weird too. She made her first post on Jan 11, 2021.

She told how she met with a coincidence in which two of her siblings knew about Hive. She never mentions them in the post. Just like the other posts, there are no social media links outside of Hive. Her interests are writing and finance as well.

What was common in all of these accounts? Crazy onboarding stories, common interests like writing and finances. And no prior social media accounts before joining Hive. Except @edystringz all the other accounts have proper sourcing, good use of tags and communities from day 1. And they wrote that post within a a few hours of creating their accounts.

But these can just be coincidences...right? Now, let me start with how these are all related to each other.

Similarity in writing style

1. The same structure in story writing, with a lot of one-line dialogues (not strong evidence but still very useful)

A random InkWell Post by @sabrinah

A random InkWell Post by @iskawrites

A random InkWell Post by @edystringz

These are just one example and although the stories are vastly different, if you look at other examples and study more posts of these supposedly different writers, you will start to see a pattern. Every writer has a style, and her style of writing is common. I know this is quite subjective and two writers can have similar styles as well. (I would have termed this a coincidence at this point and it sounds like a big stretch. Yes, it kind of is if you look at it in isolation. But read the rest of the post and come back to this point and it will make a lot more sense).

Also note the fact that all of these accounts have similar interests and write posts in mostly the same communities, their favorites being InkWell for fiction writing, LeoFinance for financial posts and other Nigerian communities.

2. [Stronger Evidence]: Use of `</diva>` tag to close the `<div>` tag instead of `</div>` (she later corrected this mistake half a year ago but not before doing the same thing with all her accounts...another coincidence? Maybe)

@sabrinah made many posts with the same </diva> error (closing the <div> tag with </diva> instead of </div>) and the last time she made this mistake was on April 16th, 2024, where you can see two posts, this one from @sabrinah and this one from @iskawrites written on the same exact date with this error still in them (and this error was in the previous few posts on both accounts as well). But she fixed this error on the next day on both the accounts on different posts (still a coincidence? I don't think so.)

(These are not just on one or two posts but on a lot of posts...possibly they were using the same snippets or templates? or just thought this is how you end this tag?)

While she fixed these mistakes on her @sabrinah and @iskawrites accounts, she did not fix this mistake for another week in @iskafan account. However, once she fixed it there, on April 23, 2024 (a week later), she never repeated that weird mistake on any of those accounts. (Coincidence? Maybe)

To be really sure I asked if there is a variation of the </div> tag in HTML to ChatGPT. I guess this will be helpful for all the non-technical folks reading this.

3. Similarity in Discord texts, especially the use of exact emoji patterns by all three (Iska, Edystringz and Sabrinah... all taken from the City of Neoxian discord server)

The City of Neoxian Discord server is one of the most active Discord servers related to Hive. There are giveaways hosted daily for a whopping $10 vote or so and you have higher chances of winning it if you are chatting a lot. That's why some users go out of their way to chat. Most of this chat is spam anyway. (I just wanted to give you insight into why the same person would be in this Discord from all their accounts. In short, the more you chat the more chances you have to win a big upvote).

Iska, Edystringz and Sabrinah,have all have been part of this Discord server and were really active. In fact, this was the Discord chat that raised some eyebrows. Iska and Edystringz were so similar in how they were texting here. Someone asked me to check their profiles for similar patterns and that's how I found the similarities in their accounts.

Anyways, how were these discord messages similar? Let me give you an example.

This emoji 🏃🏾‍♀️ (:woman_running_tone4:) is a very specific one because of the 'tone4' part. This emoji was used in the City of Neoxian Discord server a whopping 987 times.

Out of these 987 times it was used 578 times by @sabrinah alone. 239 times by @edystringz and 166 times by Iska.

578 + 239 + 166 = 983 (only 5 times by the rest of the server. Still a coincidence? Maybe)

How unlikely three random people will use a woman_running_tone4 emoji on a Discord server where you can't even choose the tone from the Discord suggested emojis.

This is not just a coincidence, there are many other examples of these, as complex as having multiple emojis in the same order.

You will find other examples within the texts of using certain words more often than others, having similar punctuation marks. Even some three emoji combinations like this (coincidence? Quite possibly)

I knew about this connection for some time but I was too lazy to write this post. I thought she would get caught on her own but nope. And when I saw @sabrinah was asked to verify her identity she didn't do that.

Let me summarize all of it again from the start. @sabrinah @edystringz and @iskafan all came to Hive in weird ways. They all found Hive by suspicious methods, never mentioned any other accounts that onboarded them, and none of them had any other social media accounts prior to coming here. They are all making the same unique HTML tag mistake in their posts and fixed it at the same time too. On top of all this they have been writing about the same topics in mostly the same communities. The fact that they are using the exact specific emoji with the same exact tone and combinations proves that they are the same person. For me, even that HTML tag mistake alone proves that they are the same account. I just shared the rest of the 'coincidences' to make my point stronger.

And when @hivewatchers recently asked @sabrinah to confirm her identity by linking her X account, she refused to link her account hiding behind the privacy factor. @hivewatchers let her go off their blacklist easily and that's what prompted me to write this detailed post. When I finally thought this was over, as I had known about this a long time ago. I even reported her account to be verified a few months ago. It looks like @hivewatchers ignored my request but finally they took some action on perhaps someone else's report. I knew she couldn't come up with any social media accounts prior to her joining Hive because clearly this is her alt account.

These are not just baseless claims anymore and I hope I was able to put my point across with this post.

I want to mention some accounts that I think would be interested in this story. @nathan007 I think you were wrong in linking this @sabrinah to @sabrinahandralic but I am sure you will be happy to know that she is just a milker trying to milk rewards just like her other accounts. Her @iskafan account made more than 7,000 HP as author rewards (according to Hivestats) most of which has already been taken out and the rest is on power down. Similarly the other account (@iskawrites) is on a powerdown too. I expect @sabrinah to do the same until she comes back with a new story. After all she could cook up an entire story in a day :)

There could be more accounts that I am unaware of... I have already spent a lot of time digging up these account, don't won't to waste anymore time on them. Maybe someone can dig up some more stuff.

I want to tag some curators, moderators and some respectable anti-abuse guys. @theinkwell @neoxian @livinguktaiwan @antisocialist @dlmmqb @ecency @bhattg @leo.voter @thekittygirl @ladiesofhive @mahdiyari