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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
thank god the round was paused in time to ensure he didn't trophy.
over 6 years
But yeah this is fd lol
over 6 years
Damn it well it's fine I like bronze anyway

Just kidding. There's no evidence he cheated in the last round, however likely it may be