Company X has filed a lawsuit against Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa, and unidentified account operators, accusing them of coordinating interaction manipulations and obtaining at least £207,384 through the Creator Revenue Sharing program. The lawsuit was filed on September 17 in the High Court of England and Wales (Business and Property Courts, case number BL-2026-001161). The defendants also include 'persons unknown' – individuals who may have operated related accounts.
According to the lawsuit, six main accounts participated in the program from August 2023 to February 2026: @Vivek4real_, @Bitcoin_Teddy, @saylordocs, @TrendingBitcoin, @Kalshibacktest, and @PolyBackTest. X associates the payment data of the first three with Sen and the remaining three with Sherpa. The company claims that the accounts acted as a unified network: they published similar content in short intervals, liked, reposted, and replied to each other. X cites examples from August 13, when @Vivek4real_, @saylordocs, and @Bitcoin_Teddy responded to the same post within 31 seconds, and August 5, when @Vivek4real_ and @TrendingBitcoin posted nearly identical posts 11 seconds apart. All these claims remain company statements: as of September 21, no public defense or court decision has been presented.
X's financial claims include specific amounts: £74,332.44 for @Vivek4real_, about £50,065 plus a smaller payment in Paraguayan guarani for @Bitcoin_Teddy, £49,441.91 for @saylordocs, £22,938.35 for @TrendingBitcoin, £3,490.71 for @Kalshibacktest, and £6,705.25 for @PolyBackTest. The total damage under the program is estimated by X to be at least £207,384. Additionally, the company estimates the costs of investigation, analysis, remediation, and prevention at £75,000 or more. X also claims that the defendants provided misleading information through related payment accounts and used overlapping devices, software clients, and other identifiers. The lawsuit is based on allegations of fraud, breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and other grounds. The company demands the return of funds, compensation for damages, interest under Section 35A of the Senior Courts Act 1981, and legal costs.
The accounts were suspended on August 18 – a month before the lawsuit was filed. At that time, X was already preparing to close the old program: new registrations were stopped on August 7, payments under it were completed on September 7, and the final settlement took place around September 11. From September 8, the Original Content Rewards program began to be implemented, which pays for qualified views of original content by Premium subscribers in the Home Timeline. The new rules explicitly exclude fraudulent, paid, promoted, or artificially generated views, as well as copies, downloaded and re-uploaded media, and aggregated content without original contribution.
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