Hello Community, Hope you all are safe and well. This blog is not about Cheating but about a more serious issue where some fake Coders who have earned rating by Plagiarism and Cheating target beginners and sell there Courses on unbelievably high price. One of the fraud was caught few days back, I will be busting other one today.
Recently Karan Gujjar was caught here who called himself as one of the best coders of India and also advertised himself a lot. He then used his popularity and fake reputation to do fraud and started selling useless Courses for around 1500-2000 bucks.
Now I am noticing a bigger fraud from few days who is selling his course for around 12000 Rs (Indian Currency) . He has also build his fake reputation due to his high ratings on CodeChef and Codeforces. This blog is not about cheating as catching Cheaters is responsibility of the Site on which contest is currently running but Since apart from Ratings this guy does not have any achievement in Competitive Programming therefore I will have to post his plagiarized submissions from both CodeChef and Codeforces. Link to his course https://practice.geeksforgeeks.org/courses/competitive-programming-live
The guy is striver_79 , he is currently selling his Competitive Programming course for around 12000 Rs but lets first see about what he has achieved in Competitive Programming. So here are his achievements he is Expert on Codeforces , 6 star on CodeChef , participated in 250 contests ( What the hell is that even an achievement ?? ) . Ranked under 100 in India ( ?? ) . The only credible source where he can't cheat is ICPC Regionals so he has not mentioned any stats of ICPC Regionals (Rank ??) (just mentioned that he has participated in it). Ranked 13 in TCS CodeVita (a 6 hour long useless contest where Code Copying Sharing is done on a very large Scale). So the only achievement which we can see is Expert on Codeforces and 6* on CodeChef so lets focus on that.
On Codeforces, this guys participates with many people and then they share there code with each other and make minor changes. It will be very hard for me to post all there Copied submissions therefore I will be posting few submissions only.
Here are some of his submissions:
asipu_pawan : https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/946/submission/36016955
striver_79 : https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/946/submission/36012545 (Even comments are unchanged.)
asipu_pawan : https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/1038/submission/42587818
striver_79 : https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/1038/submission/42586034
Novice : https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/1058/submission/43327558
striver_79 : https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/1058/submission/43317180
There are countless submissions which are same and not only 1-2 guys are there it seems his whole college solves the problems together and then share there code.
Now lets turn to CodeChef, Go to his profile https://www.codechef.com/users/striver_79 and you can easily find that his rating rises only in Long Challenges ( LOL ) . There in short contest he fails miserably and his rating has always fallen (because there he cannot cheat in Short Contest otherwise he will lose all his rating due to MOSS). So he keeps using only Long Challenges to gain his rating. In long challenge he utilize the 10 days time to arrange and change code and beat MOSS, so it will be very hard to detect plagiarism there.
Another User: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/21036982
striver_79: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/20545722
Very much similar but unfortunately they beat the MOSS.
Since this blog is not about Cheating but about busting the fraudulent activities therefore I will not do much investigation as I think this much proof is enough to open the eyes of beginners who are falling in Trap of these fraudsters. There are countless free resources available online and also there many red coders who are also YouTubers like Errichto , tmwilliamlin168 and our bro Um_nik who make a lot of good videos.
Thank You and Stay Safe
PS: I read some comments and even the comment of the accused and at first decided not to reply and waste my another 10 minutes but I want to convey an important message. Everything said in this blog is 100% true, none of the fact will become false even all the students from Jalpaiguri College will downvote it. Next thing I do not belong to Scaler or any other kind of fraud , I am against the monetization of resources which are free, I was shocked to know that striver_79 was not even paid properly for making this course shame on GeeksForGeeks , I urge striver_79 to talk to their team about this because they are using his name to promote course. It will be great if the price of the course will be reduced as well. striver_79 has admitted that he has cheated and will not cheat again. It is good that he is not doing it again but except him all his juniors are still doing cheating and are shame to their college and our nation. Their college has around 5 or 6 , 6* coder on CodeChef and many are Expert on CodeForces but still their college students are unable to get even under 50 in ICPC regionals. So if you are not from Jalpaiguri College go and follow some people from this college and check there latest submission except striver_79 and asipu everyone still is involved in Cheating, and if you are from Jalpaiguri College and you are here to downvote my post then think who is responsible for this post (Downvoting my post won't make you honest and your copied solutions are still in the system and any another day someone else will point at you all !! ) ?? Why you are giving anyone the reason to point at you ?? Also it is sad that striver_79 parents were threat but whatever he has done to Scalar is really appreciable , Thanks to striver_79 for that. It will be great if you can ask GFG to reduce or make that course free and also guide your juniors not to cheat because I have lost hope in MikeMirzayanov that he will ever act against. Anyways have a good day and stay safe !!!*
This is sad. I watch his videos for problems I couldn't solve and he explains stuff really well(easy for me to understand).
Edit- Glad that I didn't judge him!
Ah it goes again !
I guess you are just some random guy bought by Scalar? I can counter every argument of yours. Yes I am a friend of Striver's . I know how much that guy works. And who does he work for? You guys! Did he ever tell you guys to buy his course from Geeksforgeeks? He created an Youtube channel just because many people can't afford the course. Also, he has two giant offers, one from Amazon and one from Media.net (I believe this is one of the hardest to crack in India) . You didn't mention that. I always asked him why he was working so much on youtube, editing videos. He already earned a decent amount from his internship and Geeksforgeeks. He always replied, many people cannot afford the courses and I really wanna help Tier 3 people grab offers. They have lot of potential just need guidance. Now you claim that he is not so pro in CP. Yes obviously he is not the best, he is no near to the best, but did he ever claim? Did he ever make claims that I am the best follow my Youtube channel!! Well not comparing anyone but GKCS is also not so pro. There are many people better than him. But what he is good at is being able to explain things very nicely. That's why I like his videos and that's the same case with striver . Also if you feel that you are much better than he is, don't watch his videos. Did he ask you? Those who are getting help are watching, why do you care? Also regarding the course I feel it's a very fair amount. He is giving so much of his precious time. Just take any random tuition and you would be paying much more than this trust me. Also did he make any claims that take my course placement is guaranteed unlike some people who charge you 3 lakhs of rupees? I really feel sad to see how stupid you are! Also how much did Scalar pay you? It's not just a coincidence that this post is coming up on the same day his father received a call from Scalar threatening to file a charge against him is it?
Nice try, downvoted.
Hello community, the code matching with Pawan that the post is referring to was on a blog 6 months back. I did apologize then, but then the blog was taken down. I am apologising for it again, and have started practicing wisely. Thanks to the blog then. I went off from coding, and now I have started fresh again from the last month.
Regarding the selling of the course for 12000
I am not the owner of the course. The course is sold by an organisation. I merely work for them. Also, am not paid the entire amount, I am paid on hourly basis. I teach live for 18 days, 3 hours per day, and I have 1-1 sessions 9 times with everyone to monitor everyone's progress and clear doubts. I do-not see any harm in it, am not promising anything false, even am not claiming that I will teach FFT or those higher stuffs, I teach till MO's algorithm, that is what I know at max, I do-not do things which I do-not know.(Check: https://practice.geeksforgeeks.org/courses/competitive-programming-live). Even people teaching at bootcamps are paid, I do-not see where I stand here if am paid by an organisation for teaching something, where people enroll on their self. I have 4 batches till date, if this was a fraud, people are free to post their views regarding the same. I can share feedbacks if the community wants too.
Regarding ICPC rank:
I belong to a tier 3 college, ICPC is not a one man show, everyone knows that here. Regarding ranks, I achieved a rank of 92 among 200+ team in my second year, achieved 140ish rank among 250 teams in third year, and rank of 67 at Kanpur regionals among 110 teams this year.
Regarding 6* at Codechef:
I reached 5* for the first time using short contests. The codechef short contests is so unbalanced that people leave it. I used to apply for internships, ask for referrals, but people denied it, and I saw multiple people getting to 6* and getting noticed. I did long challenges then and I learned a lot in those 10 days, it started reflecting back at Codeforces. Again I cannot see, how I am to blame if there is a contest going on which adds to your rating. Regarding flaunting at platforms, I have attached a screenshot, where in a group someone asked me about 6*, I replied him something which proves that I have never been proud of. Regarding the allegation that I managed codes, that is absolutely false, none of the code matches with anyone except Pawan. He is my room-mate for 4 years, we used to solve long problems together. We realized it 6 months back, that it was not the correct way, hence we started doing on self. If I was managing codes like Karan as he claims, the code would matched to some random guy as I copied from Ideone as he says. I have said it to a lot of people about 6* being a vague stuff, which only looks good to recruiters. Screenshot of that thing is there:
Regarding the guy posting it:
Few days back, a blog about one of my junior was posted, and then the blog got deleted around 5:00 A.M at night. Then he was blackmailed that give proof about your senior, I seriously feel someone is running a personal agenda here to defame me. The screenshots of blackmail are below:
The blog was posted by the same account which posted it now, and then after the blog the juniors received this blackmail texts from different accounts on the same night, and the blog was taken down.
Claims about me being a super coder:
I never mentioned me being a super coder, I just wanted to help the community. I do have a youtube channel. I work at Amazon from 10-7 in the day hours, come back give the contest, after the contest I record the videos. A video might look like a 10 minutes one, but trust me it takes a lot of cuts/retakes(you can confirm that with Errichto and others), because I want that people like me do-not suffer from the tier-3 college as they do regularly while starting, because trust me in starting editorials are toughest to help. A 10 minutes video takes 1.5 hours of retakes + edits + other stuffs(like uploading takes time). I uploaed the videos at 5:00 A.M at night, and then the next day I start back at office, please mention this too, if you are in so mood to defame me.
Regarding my youtube channel:
Please watch the video once, I was not able to solve D other day, in the video, I clearly mentioned that I could not do it in the contest, hence did look at the solution and then made this video from the editorial approach. I never claimed am the best come to my youtube channel or anything like this.
Regarding the code matching thing, I and Pawan have decide back then not to do it again. The blog posted back then taught us a lot of things, and I am again aplogising for that act. But then the post says about my nature of me cheating people, which I will leave it to the community to decide about this.
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This will probably get downvoted but i have watched striver_79 videos on Youtube personally, and i think he explained lots of stuff nicely + It is free + He has been doing it for almost all CF Rounds.
I don't really care about cheating, we have all done it ( at times ), but the videos he makes on Youtube are no doubt the best.
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Looks like Scalar Academy can't handle negative criticism, so they are trying such underhanded methods. This scenario is a lot similar to Tren Black, when he gave negative reviews on a product of a well known company they tried to silence him and spoil his image.
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You scaler academy frauds are just trying to take revenge because he told the world truth about your organization!
then how is he an amazon sde and u a random guy backed up by scalar and spreading s*** everywhere that too with a fake ID LMAO
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LMAO..best part of irony is that the person complaining about Striver bhaiya is using a fake account...ROFL..!! A person who is afraid to show everyone their account is speaking of others persons achievements. "Empty vessels sound much bro..work hard and let your stars speak for u" ;-P
I'm not on his side but let's make it clear, cf rating doesn't matter as long as you provide solid evidence along with good reasoning. Your comment is clearly an ad hominem.
If you really had enough faith in yourself, you shouldn't have posted it from an account created 44 hours before this comment is being written.
I have something to tell you all, I personally know him although I live far away from him. One random day I was doing a contest on CodeChef (luckily which was organized by striver_79). I was able to solve 2 out of 5 questions and after the contest, I started up solving further questions, but I was quite a newbie at that time(yeah you can say still also) and were not able to solve. But in the contest announcement, he gave his no. and I tried contacting him regarding the doubts in Contest. That time he helped me to upsolve 3rd and even 4th question which was quite out of reach for me at that time. Without thinking for a second, he helped me (a stranger guy). Till now, if I have to take some good advice related to programming, I used to take advice from him. Some days back he started his youtube channel just for helping other students. He answers each and every query of mine despite of having a very busy schedule. I don't know about others but his code forces C and D tutorials are helping me a lot in solving them. Thanks to asipu_pawan, he also helped me a lot :)
Before putting all these false allegations, I think you guys would have opted for a much better way to take revenge from someone who spoke the truth against you all. I seriously feel pity how shamelessly and fraudulently someone is trying to defame the success that has been achieved by him. Yes, I am a friend of Striver_79 and I know how much effort he gives just to build the competitive coding world, how desperately he wants everyone around him to succeed without even charging a penny. He is making youtube videos just for people who cannot afford the course. This post mentions "I will not do much investigation" but think you guys have done a lot of investigation regarding him, just to put him down. This post came out on the same day when his father was threatened, isn't that strange, or is it a coincidence?
I have personally followed striver_79 from a long time. He has always been very helpful and always helped beginners like us. The course you have mentioned is a Geeks for Geeks course and he has no hand in it. He gives knowledge freely on You Tube under the name TUF. Also he has always helped juniors, seniors, own yearmates and eveyone who has approached to him without any demands or so. So stop sending rumors just because he has said truth about you. Never imagined Scalar Academy to go this down. Now you a random guy of scaler let me clear something which you have missed if he is a fraud then just tell how he got placed in Amazon for internship and a job at media.net .The most toughest ones in India.You scaler guys can't see that a guy from a tier-3 college grew up to fast and doing some well thing for the cp community. I am personally following him since a long time I haven't seen a single time where he showed up his cp skills which he have. And ICPC is also the tough I think LMAOO he got chance three times. How can he get such successive chances . Cheating has a limit.You guys are defaming some genuine guys who have struggled to much to get the position he currently have for your pusrpose(for making money).He revealed Scaler academy that's why these things are coming up so frequently.This is not gonna help you LOL. He has solved too much question on codeforces.He is a genuine guy.Doing so much questions even if it is a practice takes a lot of time, you LMAOO can't get it because you are not capable of.So stop spreading the shit everywhere.Do your own business.
It is quite clear that the blogger is a bigger fraudster than anyone around, though a bit dumb. This blogger created his account 1-2days back, it's not even 48hrs since he registered. This guy made a fake account to defame some truly hardworking coders, who have built their profile bit by bit. I have only one request to all the hard working and genuine coders on this platform, just check once what this blogger is saying and how baseless he is and how clearly he is out to defame some good hard working people.
I have known striver for almost 3 years now and I can tell one thing that he is the most hardwoking person I have ever seen.I know that scalar academy have paid you heavily paid you to post this and defame him.But noone in the whole community can defame him because if some one has to defame him he needs to crack the most TOUGH interviewing company media.net.If you are some real guy and you have guts to crack it !!! (Which is not possible for a piece of shit like you).I really respect the hardwork Raj da puts in everything and from the moment he created his youtube channel he has been my inspiration.Motive of the comment-Scalar is a fraud and don't even think defaming striver HE has the support from the community.
O hlw you are like DIPAK KALAL(if u don't know who is he then go to youtube and search about his ,I hope you can do it by your self) and you comes to defram our hero's! I used dipak kalal's name because like him ,you have too much time to do all kind of shit.
Don't defram anyone like this .
And don't jealous other's success .
I interacted with him multiple times to ask doubt personally, or through coding club WhatsApp group. Can vouch that he have more skills than me.
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