I had an influx of #newmembers to my #instance overnight.

All were from #Romania & shared the same IP addy.

All used the same email server.

Suspicious much?

#admins check your new members to see if they’re legit or #spammers or #RussianBots.

@Erpel because the spammers are assholes?

• I wished @Codeberg had some #AI #bot / #blocklist feature to flatout block #spammers and #bots cuz given the fact that #GitHub refuses to allow blocking #Copilot, this may be the straw to move the projects over there if I can't be assed to #SelfHost and merely abude GitHub as a #CDN!

• Which I certainly would intent…

:catthinking:

Thank you spammer... but... er...

#spam #spammers #idiots #blog

I've been getting this spam, twice a week now. It's sent via email, to the illumos.cafe domain, and clearly written by an LLM. What are they offering? A hand selling "my" software product - namely, the illumos operating system (!!!) - and maximizing the profit from it, claiming it's 'new, revolutionary, and AI-based'.

Congratulations, spammer. You're more ridiculous than when you guys used to offer me erectile dysfunction drugs twenty years ago.

#Spammers #AI

I wish @michiganpublic.bsky.social wasn't being run by #SPAMMERS. Every few years since becoming a member the 1st time in ~2008 they have forgotten that I have explicitly requested to NOT be spammed, and so they send me #spam asking for money. Note that every month, they already get my money. 1/x

I constantly get autoreplies from support teams because some google group is sending mass support requests and apparently some emails were added to those lists without my consent. As I am not registered with those emails at google I have no way to manage or prevent this. It is so annoying. #spammers #googlegroups

Yo @signalapp @Mer__edith where can one report #scammers & #spammers using #Signal for their schemes (i.e. #catfishing)…

Every day around 3 PM, our land line gets a call from a number with "International Rescue" in the caller ID. They seem to use different numbers. It may actually be IRC, as SWMBO has given them money in the past, but I never answer.
I greatly appreciate the phone #spammers being easily identifiable. I wish that the ones raising funds for legit operations would work smarter...

it is incredibly hard to block call centres calling for someone else on my number whom I don't know because ACMA wants the business name of the caller and the product they are selling and the business selling the product - I keep telling the call centre wrong number and they keep ringing me over and over again and not deleting my number from that other person's name - very frustrating and annoying - the call centre keeps changing its number every call so I can't block them - there's got to be a better way to get customers than harassing half the population via call centres - it's always Indian call center operators - it's usually about cheaper power bills, ISPs, life insurance #callcentres #marketing #australia #wrongnumber #indian #spammers #coldcalling #ACMA #powerbills #isp #lifeinsurance

If I have to unsubscribe from a newsletter I didn't subscribe to? Bad.
If I have to do it multiple times? Unacceptable.

I bought something from hobbyking.com back in 2013, and I've just had to unsubscribe AGAIN.
Don't buy from there, don't let'em get your email.
#spammers #warning

I used to use the Stop Spammers extension on WordPress to deal with spam. It was okay, but I realized it was buggy. (And no, I'm not reporting the bug. I'm too lazy for this shit, and it ain't my problem anymore.)

I switched to Antispam Bee and I find it much better than Stop Spammers ever was. I don't even see most of the spam it catches (unless I open up the Spam category on my instance) because the idiot spammers fill a hidden field that causes the extension to immediately decide that this is spam.

#WordPress #spam #spammers #StopSpammers #AntispamBee

@kboyd don't.

• Just report said text to your local regulators!

Otherwise you confirm #Spammers that the number is valid and they won't stop spamming!

It appears that someone here in Massachusetts found my unused domain BostonSocial.online a tempting domain to use for spamming Massachusetts people. But because I have my unused domains protected from being spoofed, they failed.

Spoofers constantly try using all my domains. I guarantee it's happening with your domains. If your domains aren't protected from it, people are getting emails that appear to be coming from you.

Here's a report sent to me by one of the larger email providers (mail.ru) informing me of a spoof attempt. They tossed the email.

Only a very few larger email providers will provide notifications. I appreciate the notifications when I get them.

Protect your domains, unused or otherwise, from spammer takeover!

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/protect-domains-without-email/

#CyberSecurity #Spoofing #Spammers

I've seen a surge in AI generated spam on my blog.

They *look* like they are engaging with the article they are commenting on.

However, the message is vapid.

And they often have a link to some random website at the end.

#spam #spammers #AI #LLM

Known spam Fediverse servers

https://connect.iftas.org/library/iftas-documentation/spam-fediverse-services/

#Spam #Spammers #Fediblock

I give this spammer a D-

Look, they're not even trying anymore.

The book's title is LITANY FOR BROKEN WORLD.

Not LITANCY FOR A BROKE and not Litany for the Broken Heart.

And what professional introduces themselves with an initial instead of a surname?

Ahh, all this promotion and buzz for just a one-time fee. A bargain at twice the price.

#WritingScams
#Spammers

#BBC reveals web of #spammers profiting from #AI #Holocaust images

The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on #Facebook.
#contentcreators

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4xjk1g1xo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss