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Reason for Luke's ban

deletedover 6 years

Gold trophy winner of round 675, Luke, was just banned and out of the interest of transparency I'm writing this thread to show you why.

He was deleting games using mod powers that we think were given to him by lailai. Before this, the user K/Cam managed to use an exploit to steal a Survivor lobby trophy that he did not earn:

https://epicmafia.com/topic/86291

He was also previously disqualified from round 594 when it was found that his points didn't add up correctly with the games that he had played and that games were also disappearing in his favor:

https://epicmafia.com/round/594


First it was found that Luke had been kudos farming in a lobby he owned called Oblivion, but after further review a few things stuck out.

Notice that the game list isn’t multiple pages and consists of only two player games including both Cam and K. This means that if this list were accurate then they would be the only players with games in this lobby. Yet upon viewing the Top Scorers list there is an alt of his named coffeeandtealover. This means that he had deleted the games so that they wouldn't show in his lobby and had also deleted all other accounts that were on the top scorer’s leaderboard, thus making his K an Cam accounts not show despite having points. For reference, this is the top scorer list for Survivor lobby:

https://i.imgur.com/Vwjyqix.png

He had to have deleted at LEAST that many accounts to have K and Cam show.

The more heinous part, also relating to how he managed to steal a trophy from Survivor lobby, is that he was able to delete games. No one other than site moderators can delete games. This means he has exploited the site in some way to gain access to site moderator tools.


Moving on from there, I checked the lobbies that were owned and used by his alt coffeeandtealover

https://i.imgur.com/dhv9WYx.png

Those are all lobbies owned by him and filled with accounts linked to him. If you want to view more of his lobbies, he owns the rounds 573 through 584 (just that we know of) and you can verify this by clicking below and changing the round number link to anything between those two.

https://epicmafia.com/round/573

Now look at the lobbies that Luke and his alts play in.

https://i.imgur.com/lp6SM2e.png

https://i.imgur.com/XGN6T9E.png

https://i.imgur.com/7XvgZHK.png

Shortly after he was caught he also tried to delete all the evidence as well. This picture was taken shortly after the investigation was started:

https://i.imgur.com/ebxd4Rp.png

and here is a link to that game now

https://epicmafia.com/game/6332626/review


For added supplement, here are two pastebins that were used during the investigation:

https://pastebin.com/a0yFJMBY

https://pastebin.com/TJi37QrT


Special thanks to The for assistance, he's the real MVP here

over 6 years
ok whatever we'll just farm another one i assume

i'm just happy he was caught
deletedover 6 years

UltraAug says

SO DOES THIS MEAN I'M FINALLY GETTING MY SURVIVOR LOBBY TROPHY THAT HE STOLE

also thank god ppl figured this out <3


Unfortunately neither the mods nor the admin can do anything about your stolen trophy. We literally do not have the tools to do so. The only person who can do anything is Lucid, who was contacted numerous times about correcting that but has made no response.
over 6 years
SO DOES THIS MEAN I'M FINALLY GETTING MY SURVIVOR LOBBY TROPHY THAT HE STOLE

also thank god ppl figured this out <3
deletedover 6 years

Ally says

for someone named endorphins u sure are miserable


He's probably taking an antagonist.
deletedover 6 years
for someone named endorphins u sure are miserable
deletedover 6 years

Ally says

thank u to forrest & The & the other mods for bothering to go thru all of this for a free position that u just get constantly sh*t on for anyway yall deserve better


On behalf of the mod team, which I am the leader of in Nathan's absence, you're welcome.
over 6 years

Ally says

thank u to forrest & The & the other mods for bothering to go thru all of this for a free position that u just get constantly sh*t on for anyway yall deserve better


yea!!! thanks for volunteering guys. amazing choice, to willingly offer to be a janitor for the great online community of epicmafia
over 6 years

Ally says

thank u to forrest & The & the other mods for bothering to go thru all of this for a free position that u just get constantly sh*t on for anyway yall deserve better


Yes, we should all be pleased with the pause/unpause so this could happen.


Jeff says

Putler trophying is hilarious because they legitimately said they could never be trophy suspended again as long as Erza is a mod and hey look lol




Legit though, they get s/hit on because they are f/ucking r/etards.
over 6 years
deletedover 6 years
HI I LOVE SUGASWAG93 AND NO ONE COULD EVER BE AS GREAT AS HER SO BACK OFF
deletedover 6 years

Ally says

thank u to forrest & The & the other mods for bothering to go thru all of this for a free position that u just get constantly sh*t on for anyway yall deserve better


It's called Stockholm Syndrome. The alternative psychiatric explanation is Messiah Complex.
deletedover 6 years
thank u to forrest & The & the other mods for bothering to go thru all of this for a free position that u just get constantly sh*t on for anyway yall deserve better
deletedover 6 years

projectmatt says

i cant believe that this thread was so crazy that it brought SGR back from the dead, dang


I thought that name was buried a long time ago.
over 6 years
the southeastern conference or
deletedover 6 years
If only the SEC bothered to put this much effort into their cases we would have an actual criminal indictment of white collar crime by now in the U.S.
over 6 years
soluciones do u drink sangria before posting in the forums
deletedover 6 years
i remembered now!!!! just make 1 round x month or 1 round x 3 m so ure not all tired from ev cheater n thing happening in the rounds.

i suggested this and got rejected but i think its the best u can do if u want to keep up a good site moderation
over 6 years
Mods r sods
deletedover 6 years
idk how he wasnt suspended when just taking a look at https://epicmafia.com/game/6353218 is enough to ban him
deletedover 6 years
I'm so sorry I didn't get out JM123 from the 4th place once again. Luke was an obvious abc alt.
over 6 years
pretty sure this was all a well plotted long term conspiracy to stop JM123 to win his back to back trophy
over 6 years
Hold on a second,

Hester violetah and LivMoore are ALL luke??

https://epicmafia.com/game/6347817/review

then he played with 3 accounts in one of my last games last round. and he did made me lose

LOL
deletedover 6 years

projectmatt says

i cant believe that this thread was so crazy that it brought SGR back from the dead, dang


actually lacey's pizza thread did that
over 6 years
i cant believe that this thread was so crazy that it brought SGR back from the dead, dang
over 6 years
luke why :(