How many accounts would you say is too many? Some people might answer with something low such as 5, others might say 10 or even 20. But for some, that is just pennies on the dollar. They think that having thousands, or even 10s of thousands of accounts is normal, especially when they can get free faucet account creation and delegation from 
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The "Dart" and "Constructor" faucet farms (named after their original main accounts) have been updated. A total of 3,497 new accounts have now had their
Between these two groups there are over 25,000 accounts. It is very likely that the same person operates these farms as transfers have been found linking them.
I first heard of Dart a little after I joined 
Recently it was discovered that 1,000s of accounts were transferring funds to an account called 
Each of these account were doing the exact same thing, they were all set up to simply upvote other peoples content. Which is definitely a new tactic, normally these farms are setup to self vote their own accounts. But this is still abuse, they have created thousands of accounts through Steemit, they are only allowed one. Plus they are still earning curation rewards from voting and this comes from the reward pool that we all share.
As you can see below they have been doing this for months, this is the same for the other accounts too. A power down was also initiated on multiple occasions as well, this is so they can cash out the funds and then get their
Then once or twice a month (it used to be a lot more) transfer out the earnings via the 
I'm sure this won't be the last of it, but hopefully it has put a slight dent in it for the time being.
You can read more about which accounts were added here #67. Because of the PR, Steemit Inc removed the delegation to these accounts.
You can help by reporting suspicious activity like this to the
https://steemit.com/~witnesses: type in pjau and click vote
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