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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

deletedover 6 years
over 6 years
deletedover 6 years
I think we need to instead of hating on the mods for not catching him before the round give them a break because they have been working hard to try to find the evidence so they can ban him I know Charley spent a while today trying to figure this out I’m sure the other mods did to so st least we have some people to dedicate time to do this
deletedover 6 years

JM123 says

jm lost another bronze lol johnreid would love to see this


do you do anything but b/itch about getting 4th place?
deletedover 6 years
He 100% cheated last round in not only his own games, but also by throwing against other runners on his alts.

I didn't even read too deeply into his games, I only picked the games out where I recognized his alt names from just banning them. He may very well have more.
deletedover 6 years
---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340673/review

his alt strawberryyogurt suicided day 1 because Luke was confirmed mafia via the carol

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6347759/review

he's multi-accounting as Hester

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6344237/review

he suicided on his alt Rox when town was about to mislynch (Luke was town too and had GY vision)

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340746/review

multi-accounting as Roxanceca

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340701/review

multi-accounting as strawberryyogurtt

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340632/review

multi-accounting as strawberryyogurtt

suspicious but not confirmed:

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340679/review

previously mentioned accounted viliml

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6347838/review

misterblake suspected as being his account, note same avatar as blake

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6347474/review

blake vegs n1 this game conveniently when mafia doesnt do what luke wants them to

(all the suicides/vegs from his other alts have been conveniently timed too)
over 6 years
jm lost another bronze lol johnreid would love to see this
over 6 years
Thank you guys for the time spent to heavily investigative these illegitimate games regardless of the recent outcomes!
deletedover 6 years
After reading even more into his accounts he's confirmed to have thrown against other runners, here's just a few examples of this:

https://epicmafia.com/report/237499

https://epicmafia.com/report/237332

https://epicmafia.com/game/6347513/review

he even threw against me in this game as TommyCalligan and Hester

https://epicmafia.com/game/6346086/review

he's Iamro and Hester in this game
deletedover 6 years
his tinder profile reads "wanna make 500 epicmafia accounts and chill?"
deletedover 6 years
oh fun!!!!
over 6 years
i'm BAAAAACK
deletedover 6 years
im locking this because jeff can just find any reason to make a situation about himself.
over 6 years
This is the same mod team that banned me for ISP for lynching my SR instead of confirmed mafia for auto in 5way.
deletedover 6 years
I admire Luke, I wish I had this much effort to put into anything
over 6 years
This got no vio lmfao

I had hammer on Sheriff and unvoted so they weren't lynched on LYLO yet sheriff still lynches me out grudge, says this ^, and no vio.
over 6 years

The says

Lucid is singlehandedly responsible for every trophy held by a cheater, because he refuses to take a couple of seconds to change trophy allocation after the fact.

The only good thing he's done is refused to sell the site to lailai when lailai offered him 70k for it


except that time there was two silver and no bronze lol
over 6 years
Can I become a role mod so I can admit to grudge lynching people in games and get no vio
deletedover 6 years
chump change compared to awice's offer
over 6 years
When he first created mods any vet that posted he modded lol
over 6 years

The says

Lucid is singlehandedly responsible for every trophy held by a cheater, because he refuses to take a couple of seconds to change trophy allocation after the fact.

The only good thing he's done is refused to sell the site to lailai when lailai offered him 70k for it


LMAOOOO
over 6 years
Lucid is singlehandedly responsible for every trophy held by a cheater, because he refuses to take a couple of seconds to change trophy allocation after the fact.

The only good thing he's done is refused to sell the site to lailai when lailai offered him 70k for it
over 6 years

The says

Why is lucid the real culprit in all of this?

1. He refuses to do anything to improve the site
2. He made lailai admin after knowing him for less than a month

We suspect that not only was lailai the one who gave mod powers to Luke and didn't log him out after demodding him, but we also suspect that lailai has been the one providing the tokens for all of these lobbies that K has been making.

Lailai was also probably the one purchasing the tokens that S used to give out 1-letter usernames to the mods, which he probably did in an attempt to gain access to their accounts.


lucid has always loved anyone with an account less than 1000
deletedover 6 years
i literally don't care about any of the details, it's just mad dumb that there was a 2 day round pause for essa's round but then no pause for Dubious Winners: The Round
over 6 years
Like nowhere in the thread am I passing blame on Charley she's just mad at me because I said the word "mods".