Potential scammer reported - @minnowpond

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Beware of any suspect “resteem for money” proposal

After my previous scam alert post, several users notified me with suspect activity they noticed via the memo linked to micro-payment to their wallet or via spam comments.

Therefore, I continue my investigations to find out the perpetrators of such (potential) malicious activity.

Thanks to @steemsyndicate for reporting of one of them. Here the result of my research.

Description

Account: @minnowpond

@minnowpond is spamming users with the following comment on their posts:

Up to now, @minnowpond has already sent 99279 comments

To be able to send even more comments, a second account has been created

As you can see, @minnowpond1 has already sent 45027 comments like this:

or like this

Potential scam

Although it looks @minnowpond provided some resteem services, several users complained about their post not being resteemed as promised.

https://steemit.com/stemit/@dumitriu/from-about-24-hours-minnowpond-56-do-not-upvote-what-happent
https://steemit.com/scam/@justinomora/dissappointed
https://steemit.com/steemit/@justinomora/look-this-crap-scammers-on-the-horizon
https://steemit.com/minnowpond/@markmorbidity/minnowpond-question

Here is a recap of the transactions involving @minnowpond:

5888 payments were made to @minnowpond with a valid link to a post in the memo
2898 reblogs have been made by @minnowpond

Out of these 2898 reblogs, only 2866 are related to payments made by others users

3022 payments have not been honored with the promised resteem!

Therefore, I consider @minnowpond's action as being a potential scam and this account to be untrustworthy.

Preventive action activated

The account @minnowpond has been put on the black list of my Warning-Bot and it will issue warnings with a link to this post, notifying users of the potential malicious activity of @minnowpond.

Previous threat alerts

If you missed them, please find here the previous alerts I published:

Thanks for reading!

If you notice any new suspect activity like the one described above, drop a comment on this post, contact me on steemit.chat or via Telegram (@The_Arcange)