You should understand that I was commenting on the integrity of people trying to scam Innokin and ECF.
I was referring to this exact quote:
Which implies ECF team discovered the spam accounts.
So either
1. Someone misspoke and I'm mistaken based on the semantics of the text.
2. ECF has more access to the entry data than Innokin ( which is fine)
3. The scammers were discovered due to their ECF account information.
My first guess would be the simplest and most logical, thus, the question about pulling the trigger.

And, as I already stated, this was a world wide contest, not just open to ECF members.
I was referring to this exact quote:
"Just got word back from the ECF TEAM."@Uncle: I just got word back from the ECF team. There were 45000 entrants in total, but ECF estimated 15000 were spam accounts from a handful of users trying to win
Which implies ECF team discovered the spam accounts.
So either
1. Someone misspoke and I'm mistaken based on the semantics of the text.
2. ECF has more access to the entry data than Innokin ( which is fine)
3. The scammers were discovered due to their ECF account information.
My first guess would be the simplest and most logical, thus, the question about pulling the trigger.