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The 30 repos with the most to answer for — ranked by
log₁₀(stars) × bought stars. Fame counts.
How they were caught
heuristic 1
Low activity
Accounts that starred this one repository and nothing else. The throwaway-account fingerprint of cheap fake-star sellers.
heuristic 2
Lockstep
Groups of 50+ accounts that hit many repos together in tight time windows. Sophisticated farm behavior, much harder to fake by hand.
validation
90% later banned
GitHub's Trust & Safety team has since deleted 90% of the accounts StarScout flagged. The strongest external signal any detector has produced.
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