Byteball Referral Theft at blockchain level

It isn't only public posted addresses being stolen. It appears that it is a bot script scanning the blockchain explorer that is being used to scam and steal the referral bonus. These culpable accounts should be frozen and deleted.

Here are the facts: I helped setup

Hive account@healthy-home for a byteball account. I told no one on Steemit or anywhere outside of my friend's house. As soon as the Single Address wallet was created, another friend,

Hive account@public-eye, sent the referral fee. 5 seconds to 1 minute later a second referral came in. How?? From where? The Recieve address had not been posted ANYWHERE!!! Fortunately, the referral bonus still went to

Hive account@public-eye. Yay!!!

Now ......my turn! I was just on the edge of Rep 60, so I bought a vote from

Hive account@buildawhale that pushed me up and over to 60.005. Thank you very much!!!

Ok.... Ready to go. I got on the phone with

Hive account@public-eye and told him when to send. He did....49200 bytes. Again...just like before, 1 minute or less later a second transfer of 49,689 came in from: 4K5OLXLUT3GZJHV666EIXRFNTLCQD5O and Z (last letter broken so idiots dont tip this account by accident).
Less than 1 minute later ANOTHER transfer of 49,689 came in from 6D44BZPHZWHSY3GUYIPVENLJLNDGH2Q and W (broken again...see above).

I had not published this address anywhere. I JUST created the single address wallet minutes earlier...how are these bots doing this? Scanning/monitering the blockchain I am guessing!!!

What is worse... 35 minutes in,

Hive account@public-eye has yet to receive any referral bonus. Does a larger transfer override a smaller one????

Hive account@public-eye was the one that had told me about Byteball and he and I had an agreement.... Did he just get screwed out of the referral bonus???

This is a SERIOUS problem!!! If Byteball is to be taken seriously they should investigate this occurance and deal with it in a fair manner and at a code level.

This is much worse than

Hive account@themarkymark thought. It isnt just finding publicly published addresses and grabbing the referral that way. This is a spider crawling the block explorer and flat out PICKPOCKETING referrals!! Much more sinister and advanced than

Hive account@themarkymark first believed HERE!!!

Look...the issue here is that scammers are benefitting and profiting from a poorly designed airdrop. It is causing frustration and upset and hurt.