the best way for users to have a good defence is to not use vpn nor use tor, this way if they do nothing wrong, they can get the full backing of the president and me ...
but i do use vpn, and i understand if many do as well, hence we can not blame anyone for using vpn or tor browser.
this said, investigating accounts is tough, and accusations are accusation till proven.
i only have one issue with the methodology.
I do not get the idea of an account being suspect for simply transferring to another user some funds, (i have sent a lot of funds to multiple users, once one of the forum main og asked for a few dollars loan, and nostoman (the godfather of farm accounts) sent it ).
the approach is flawed, it assumes that the accounts are linked even when they might not be.
Yes, we can imagine a scenario, where a user participates in same bounty with multiple accounts and needs some funds to be able to transfer and sell, thus send himself the funds.
But, there are also many other alternative scenarios, i'll give you some:
- Hide origin (funds are eventually tracked to an individual if they came through a cex), thus asking for some funds from someone can be used to hide the origin, especially if you want to launch a token.
- You participated in a bounty and you have no funds to sell the token, you ask for a loan from someone.
- You are in a high position in the forum, and you are taking care of the local community, rewards , sending small funds to allow users to sell token (especially newbies), and sometimes have deals or even private token sales.
- You are taken advantage by a farm (opposite of previous point) that ask you for little fees on various account, and you do not know they are the same.
etc ...