RE: Fake Proposal Scam! 8700+ Accounts Involved

with appropriate consideration to the fact that the perpetrator of this recent scam apparently possessed nominal stake to fund claiming >7000 accounts in December 2024, can you provide a minumum required stake to claim that many accounts?

The current minimum stake required to claim a token once every 4-5 days is around 10k HP iirc.
A claim uses about 80% of the RCs on an account that size and takes 4 days to reach 100% again. then claim again.

My account of 23.3k HP a claim uses 27% of my RC so I can claim an account every 1.2~ days recovering 20% rc a day. It'd be safe to say an account of 50k could probably claim 2-3 accounts a day, 100k would be 3-7 a day depending on how the RC costs of the TX are at any given time.

Given enough time you can build a lot of account tokens up, as you can claim then then hold on to them forever until you finally make an account with them.

I currently have 257 such creation tokens myself, Account like OCDB probably have in the 10s of thousands if not more.

Edit: upon rereading your response, "the account recovery...by default is set to the owner of the creation token." the account recovery information of each account would inherently be a feature of the account upon creation, that should be included in blockchain data recording the creation of the account.

I had thought the account recover wouldn't be reliable but of course everything is stored onchain as history so even if they changed their recovery account we can see go back and see what it was previously. finding the first instance would give us the account that redeemed the token.

is this work you have the capability to perform?

I probably do have the skills to create a system to parse the blockchain and create a web of account creations stats but I don't generally do work for other people as I just do stuff as a hobby in my own time. (in other words I don't feel I can reliably get something finished as my interests in project flipflops like crazy)

It seems like an interesting project one I'd probably make for fun along with some other ideas I have kicking about but at the moment I'm currently learning more about RUST as a means to do these projects and know a robust language rather than continuing to use javascript/nodejs or other things that just don't vibe with me too well.

EDIT: regarding account claims it's also worth noting that you could very well lease HP i.e pay for a delegation of HP or better yet just RC as it's probably even cheaper and then claim accounts tokens that way. So you could get like 100B RC for example for like 1-2Hive a week and claim tokens like crazy.
My account has a max of 39.3 trillion RC