Season.

[Yousuckv2]

http://www.sythe.org/members/222304-season-.html
DinaH claims he's not the banned user Mortar but only has one previous Sythe profle named "Season."
http://www.sythe.org/dispute-ban-twc/1798068-disputing-unjust-ban.html

Season. However is also a ban evader

http://prntscr.com/5vtw1l

Name similarities and ip matches say it all
http://www.sythe.org/members/198666-seasons-skill.html

Also wouldn't doubt that he's Mortar regardless

 

[Yousuckv2]

http://www.sythe.org/report-scammer-archive/692976-seasons-skill-scammer.html

Seems his 'hacked' profile was used to scam people. Could not find any threads in regards to whether or not he paid this person back but if he hasn't then I believe as per sythe rules him / his other profiles (Season. and DinaH) would remain banned until this happens.

Not sure whether he paid them back or not but he coincidentally left this banned profile out of his dispute and also failed to mention that his profile was banned for scamming rather than just being hacked in his replies to this thread. Furthermore I cannot find any confirmation or claims of him being hacked other than those posted by himself. TR1BAL himself didn't even say it was hacked, just that it 'seemed to be banned'.

 

The scam that took place on Season Skill, albeit by a hacker, must be refunded

 

I have PM'd glremme asking if he recalls what was lost or has any access to those old links by chance.

However; upon checking PM's for confirmation from a member of staff of the hacking this is all I found:

Spoiler: PM convo

Sent From: NickV
IP Address:

Sent To: Season.

Sent On: 2009-09-23 23:07:39

Title: Re: Getting my sythe account back

Message:

Hi my Sythe account, Seasons Skill, was hacked around a month ago and so far I have had no help getting it back. Unlike the current owner I can provide all past info like passes and I own the two emails which were previousely used on it since the beginning, I can verify this. If you check the I.P's mine is the one used the account and please, all my Sythe career has been stolen and I have had no help in getting it back. Please help me, thanks. The real Seasons Skill.

I've forwarded it to Sin666, she'll take care of it.

Thankyou, but last time as we are in different timezones I could not contact her Is she online now?

Nope. She'll PM you back though, so try to work something out.

Sorry to bother you but as you can see he is currently on my account and he also owns the sythe account 'big vouches' he has completely ruined my reputation so I do not know what I am going to do, when I get Seasons Skill back can you post on my thread which I will be making verifing it pleasE?

Hm, care to explain why the hackers IP on Seasons Skill has accessed the account you're currently on?

well that must mean he ever knows my pass or is able to hide/ change his i.p? sorr

How would he know your pass to your new account? And there's no way to hide/change an IP unless you proxy. The IP on Seasons Skill matches that of one of the IPs on Season. That leads me to believe you're lying.

I trawled through all PM's up to 2 months after the above exchange and no further contact was made between you and any member of staff to rectify the situation. Why? Guilt. You knew you were responsible and couldn't clear your name - so you continued dealing with trades daily instead of fixing the situation.

TR1BAL clearly mishandled the situation by not checking the ban reason as anything scammed by a hacker should be refunded by the account's owner and NickV also mishandled the situation by not banning you when he drew the above conclusions.

I will leave this open and will post here when or if glremme gets back to me (probably 48 hours I'll give it) - after which you can contact me on Skype for any updates.

 

[Yousuckv2]

http://www.sythe.org/report-scammer-archive/691263-seasons-skill-scammer.html
Another scam report from around that time which was not resolved but it lists the msn
[email protected]

And then I found out it's linked to someone who was apparently buying sythe profiles-
http://www.sythe.org/archives/711268-wickedtown-live-com-attempt-buy-my-sythe.html

Could be coincidence but yea

 

And so the plot thickens. Thanks.

 

http://www.sythe.org/report-scammer-archive/704058-wicked-town-scammer.html

http://www.sythe.org/archives/706218-get-lite-ban-evader.html

First link leads to: http://www.sythe.org/5463363-post17.html
Which leads to: http://www.sythe.org/pures-skillers-3-99/699424-swapping-rsc-account-9-hp-has-scythe.html (banned just now)
As well as http://www.sythe.org/middleman-forums/698711-free-middle-man-been-sythe-2-years.html, (~Angel~ and CSS+ also banned for self vouching this account)​

 

[Yousuckv2]

http://www.sythe.org/report-scammer-archive/704058-wicked-town-scammer.html
http://www.sythe.org/archives/706218-get-lite-ban-evader.html

I was thinking perhaps Season sold his profile to this Wickedtown person

 

I'll look in to IP's when I'm on the PC tomorrow.

Could be possible since there is a break in activity from 23 Oct 2009 til 11 Nov 2009 and wickedtown PM'd someone on 1 Nov 2009.

 

[Yousuckv2]

CSS admits here he is Season Skill-
http://www.sythe.org/runescape-3-skill-training/694027-css-free-training-thread.html
http://prntscr.com/5vv9co

Seasons also has an ip match with Angel and CSS as well as many other profiles
http://prntscr.com/5vv9zx

http://www.sythe.org/members/225095-megan-fox.html
http://www.sythe.org/members/225161-skiller-sins.html - (0 posts, not currently banned)
http://www.sythe.org/members/208970-damn-living.html - Registered email is a match to email used by Seasons in the scam report
http://www.sythe.org/members/213664-ilikechips.html

Also found an offsite scam report linked to the same msn
http://www.powerbot.org/community/topic/614440-scam-report-on-penguinxl/
So if he's found linked to this user/being this person then he can answer to that as well

 

[Unregisteredseeasoooon]

Like I don't really understand Yousuck what you've just said, you just posted a bunch of shit that's linked to the hacker at the time, not myself. At the time I was continually to use happily my new account, and the hacker had access to Seasons Skill and was trying to get it unbanned. All of those alts you just listed are his and not linked to me or my IP.

Same with that PB link, I don't/haven't used PB

 

Live:RoarySythe

How would the hacker get access to Seasons. when you made it to dispute Seasons Skill? the IP's matched between those accounts. You were told this by NickV then didn't try and sort the situation at all after that.

 

Talking with Dina about it now. It's a lot more complex than it first appeared. Will update shortly. In the meantime, Dina and I have bot added Remme on Skype to try and arrange some kind of refund.

 

As we are obviously unaware how the hacker got access to Season., I'm surprised that this question keeps coming up if you think about it logically.

• Original owner created a Sythe account Season.. They logged on the account. → IP logged.
• Original owner created a Sythe account Seasons Skill. They logged on the account. → IP logged.
  • As a result of the above, there should be a match between these two accounts, unrelated to the hacker.
    [*]There was no claim made that the IP of the hacker (at the time) matched Season. in any way (that I've seen from all of the tracing and backtracking).

IP being searched (31.49.83.66) ~300 posts analyzed

Mortar

• 07-22-14, 04:46 AM http://www.sythe.org/13717945-post17.html

DinaH

• 01-08-15, 02:27 PM http://www.sythe.org/14261412-post19.html
• 01-08-15, 01:44 PM http://www.sythe.org/14261293-post16.html
• 01-08-15, 10:52 AM http://www.sythe.org/14260905-post7.html

Roughly 98% of the IP's used by Mortar and DinaH resolve to the same ISP (British Telecommunications Plc), located in Great Britain.

Accounts Mortar and Mining Spana were banned for this report: http://www.sythe.org/report-scammer-archive/1737048-mortar-mining-spana.html

Additional accounts to be aware of (creation dates: 06-19-10, 06-29-10, 07-02-10)

http://www.sythe.org/members/256445-spana.html
http://www.sythe.org/members/258346-spana-s-bots.html
http://www.sythe.org/members/258258-spana-s-skillers.html
http://www.sythe.org/members/257813-spanas.html
It should be noted the accounts above use IP's that only resolve to British Telecommunications Plc.​

Deductions
Season. may have been hacked by a user and Seasons Skill was created as a result. However, the IP in question does not appear on either account, which makes this case irrelevant (aside from the fact a scam resulted which would need repaid). What is relevant, however, is there exists an IP match linking DinaH to Mortar, which was created after a permanent ban was issued. The range of dates between the matches is curious, but it must be seen as irrelevant, as roughly 98% of the IP's used match the aforementioned ISP (if you do an entire listing of the IP's for both accounts, the trend is very obvious [i.e. it is not a coincidence]).

It is safe to say all of the aforementioned accounts are linked and should be seen as one. Although a hacking may have occurred, this is not the primary objective when investigating this case as the scam report will always require a refund.

Final judgment

• Ban for serial vading.
• The user scammed (glremme) must be repaid.
• DinaH is required to pardon if they ever wish to return to the site.
  I would recommend changing the ban reason for all accounts for the sake of clarity.

Second opinion & discussion concludes ban for vading.