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They mined the account at the request of someone else, they had no reason to believe it wasn't an honest account and as you said battleaxe and teamgood had nothing to do with the scam.

I was the one who blew this thing wide open, it's on the blockchain and took the delegation away as soon as I found and published the pictures and such..... We did the right thing and I flagged and handled myself and tagged steemcleaners.... so I "toilet scrubbed" as did others for the record. again it's on the blockchain. We heard a podcast and further heard that this had been approved by a famous army person blah blah blah , I dug and found this all out, outed this myself for the record as well, yanked delegation and blew the whistle, thanks to those who helped out.

somethings we dont put on the chain battle, nice to meet you.... peace?

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I don't want a beef with anybody but ya' were leaving stuff on servers to stir me up and members of my group, so if you can stop doing that we can leave each other in peace and all that jazz. We all have better things to do then see beaded hippos be the main buzzzz on the platform

this account had the chance to defend itself and was asked to show some type of id and refused and continues to promote a Facebook page which is all African , think Ghana? flag keychains and it makes zero sense and again the asking of 35k in Mexico and the fact the age of the kid isn't even the same......
ce la vie , was hoping to be proved wrong, disappointment and getting played happens

Received 100% confirmation from the etsy account owner(see update4), Hippo was made by two male artists, Lloyd and David, case closed.

same just got time to do my post on it as I have jobs and life is not fair/tough ;).... Hippogate is over with and the link to the FB page and email am flagging that now if it's not already

one couldnt script this shit to surmount it , its unbeatable. reality in fact surmounts fiction

yes, they did a quality job, our vetting procedures have been restructured.

sweet, as a data scientist you know Im dead right

The whole thing is really weird. Thank you for handling this situation in a calm and resolving manner!

yeah so I stopped the damn Uber and took away their Uber license. The person who promoted it issued a bunch of posts, it's over with, case closed for the Sherlock Holmes brigade on Steemit, a magical place full of possiblities