Byteball developers, please help! This is quite serious. Scammers will be relentless to get this free money.

It isn't only public posted addresses being stolen. It appears that it is a bot script scanning the blockchain explorer that is being used to scam and steal the referral bonus. These culpable accounts should be frozen and deleted.

Here are the facts: I helped setup @healthy-home for a byteball account. I told no one on Steemit or anywhere outside of my friend's house. As soon as the Single Address wallet was created, another friend, @public-eye, sent the referral fee. 5 seconds to 1 minute later a second referral came in. How?? From where? The Recieve address had not been posted ANYWHERE!!! Fortunately, the referral bonus still went to @public-eye. Yay!!!

Now ......my turn! I was just on the edge of Rep 60, so I bought a vote from @buildawhale that pushed me up and over to 60.005. Thank you very much!!!

Ok.... Ready to go. I got on the phone with @public-eye and told him when to send. He did....49200 bytes. Again...just like before, 1 minute or less later a second transfer of 49,689 came in from: 4K5OLXLUT3GZJHV666EIXRFNTLCQD5O and Z (last letter broken so idiots dont tip this account by accident).
Less than 1 minute later ANOTHER transfer of 49,689 came in from 6D44BZPHZWHSY3GUYIPVENLJLNDGH2Q and W (broken again...see above).

I had not published this address anywhere. I JUST created the single address wallet minutes earlier...how are these bots doing this? Scanning/monitering the blockchain I am guessing!!!

What is worse... 35 minutes in, @public-eye has yet to receive any referral bonus. Does a larger transfer override a smaller one???? @public-eye was the one that had told me about Byteball and he and I had an agreement.... Did he just get screwed out of the referral bonus???

This is a SERIOUS problem!!! If Byteball is to be taken seriously they should investigate this occurance and deal with it in a fair manner and at a code level.

This is much worse than @themarkymark thought. It isnt just finding publicly published addresses and grabbing the referral that way. This is a spider crawling the block explorer and flat out PICKPOCKETING referrals!! Much more sinister and advanced than @themarkymark first believed HERE!!!

Look...the issue here is that scammers are benefitting and profiting from a poorly designed airdrop. It is causing frustration and upset and hurt.

This can't be what Byteball meant to give to the Steemit community. But can they fix it? Can they make it right??

Hopefully this post get's seen.

Loving all you wonderful Steemians out there. Lets not less this set us back or lose heart. Keep Steeming on!

Peace