@akashsinghaniya GTFO, #SpamBot!

I wounder what @lexinova intends to achieve by vomiting into my mentions before dipping like a coward.

• Makes her look like a #UsefulIdiot or #Spambot to me...

@festal

Talon Neely here just found the quickest way to get defederated from my server.

#spambot

"I’m someone who enjoys connecting with communities around technology, culture,
and creative ideas. I want an account on yourserver to engage with
like-minded people, participate in thoughtful discussions, and share and
discover content in a friendly and open environment."

#spambot begging for registration, yikes

@Gargron

so if they posted like 20 messages with the same message should I select all or just like 2 and then report?

For me I think that selecting just 2 which look alike would be more practical.

Does Mastodon have like any "best practice" when dealing with scammers?

Also if Anna123666 hasn't been suspended yet(haven't checked) please help.

Here's a screenshot

#Mastodon #BestPractice #ScamBot #SpamBot #Anna123666

Hey, so, heads up, apparently these bot accounts with AI-generated PFPs exist now and it's best to block and report them
#spambots #spambot #bots #bot

#SpamBot
#NicolesBack
#Fediblock

So [Nicole](@preprocessor54) is back.

@Dianora

Necessary edit:

"Another @Mastodon dot Social spambot"

#MastodondotSocial #Spam #Spambot

Any other 60 YOL types being spammed by lots of very attractive women followers?

Like I know I’m super attractive and everything but I didn’t think I exuded that kind of #SilverFox magnetism

#Spam #SpamBot #Spamming #SocialMedia

How many Nicoles the Fediverse Chick have you had?

#Spambot #DaFuk #Fediverse #StrangePoultry

Underprivileged people are apparently especially easy to target on #ActivityPub , or so I have been told, and I believe it. They have been complaining about it to the Mastodon developers over the years, but the Mastodon developers at best don’t give a shit, at worst are hostile to the idea, and have been mostly ignoring these criticisms. Well, now we have “Nicole,” the infamous “Fediverse Chick”, a spambot that seems to be registering hundreds of accounts across several #Mastodon instances, and then once registered, sends everyone a direct message introducing itself.

You can’t block it by domain or by name since the name keeps changing and spans multiple instances. It is the responsibility of each domain to prevent registrations of bots like this.

But what happens when the bot designer ups the ante? What happens when they try this approach but with a different name each time? Who is to say that isn’t already happening and we don’t notice it? This seems to be an attempt to show everyone a huge weakness in the content moderation toolkit, and we are way overdue to address these weaknesses.

#fediverse #ContentModeration #FediverseChick #Mastodon #Spam #SpamBot

Seriously, the only thing anyone gets from #spamming #discord or anything else unsolicitly into my DMs is a block & report as #Spammer.

• Espechally if you are the 4th (!!!) copy & paste account sending the exact same bs to me!

https://unipar.online/@nicole41

#Spambot #Nicole #FediverseChick

@ramonagoldfinch.bsky.social is another #SpamBot account sharing 'I stand with Ukraine' bogus tshirt links is bad, spamming these links to every person who shared the post regarding the "Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans"?? Is REPREHENSIBLE! #ReportAndBlock!

This week in #Enshittification of technology: My tablet (Lenovo Android) updated last night (OK, needs to do that every so often) and this morning there was a notification from the "AppManager" about "Completing your tablet setup" (something like that). It wouldn't let me just swipe it away, so I tapped it, and it said it was finding "recommended apps" to install, the result being a list of a dozen or so games and shopping apps. There is no way in HELL I'm allowing this garbageware on my device, but there was no "refuse" option, only "install". I went back to the home screen, but the notification was still there, still undismissable. Eventually, I managed to find a place where I could disable notifications from AppManager, which made it go away. I don't know if this #spambot was put there by Lenovo or Android support, but it's fucking sleazy and outright coercive.
I can't find anything about this online.

If I recall correctly, #Usenet also kinda had an #HOA problem. Of course, it also had a #spambot problem. And a lot of other problems common in the #commons.

#SpamBot Alert for #Moderator / #Admin teams...

I'm seeing a bot making the rounds which leaves the message "1-Click to Freedom", with a promise to "Erase Up to $100K Debt Instantly" and an obviously fraudulent link. If you have an automated system, go ahead and set it flag that.

#FediSpam #FediBlock #FediMod

@prakashnarayanan OMG! Is this the first #spambot on #Mastodon??

Reminder to be careful about #donations you give out to people on here: there are a few known #SpamBots which represent fake organizations, trying to get people to #donate to them, and I periodically see posts from those getting boosted by well-meaning people.

If someone purports to be from an organization, there will be evidence, such as a green checkmark in their profile, or their links going to the URL of a known organization that you can look up. Never donate to a group when you don't know exactly what they do. Best case, it's not going to anyone effective, worst case, it's going to their enemies.

The particular #SpamBot that prompted this is posting on #MutualAid tags about #LGBTQ #Refugees in #Kenya. It is using AI generated imagery and doesn't even try to name an organization, and is linking #donation links in posts which I see trending.

Please be careful about who you donate money to!

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