I'm glad I finally got rid of the constant #spamming of #europesays and its countless sub-sites, by blocking its #pubeurope #instance on #Mastodon .The website europesays.com is registered with a simple P.O. Box address in Denver, Colorado, #USA ,and provides no online information about who's behind it. Clearly, this is a #AI-powered #bot polluting the #fediverse .

@lesley@mastoturk.org @kallekn @randahl

#Pro-Russian #spamming #troll

@FinalGirl THIS shows me whx it's important to ban #Spamming...

🕵️🗯🔁🧑‍💻 "Replycator" accounts rip content off other accounts and repost as their own while reply spamming, attempting to farm and agitate Western right-wing audiences, including in the UK, while originating in places like India. I present three examples among those I identified and analysed using OSINT.
📑 https://sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vibes-and-monetized-jibes

#OSINT #SOCMINT #replycator #rightWing #spamming #Xitter #platforms #socialMedia #propaganda #inauthentic #India #UK #grifters #farRight #rightWing #xenophobia

@technicat
#spam #spammers #spamming

"To be clear, I am not really interested in criticizing any one individual here. In the absence of stronger rules on Instagram, this just comes down to a question of ethics. I am free to believe that what FutureRiderUS is doing is not ethical; they are free to disagree, or at least pretend to.

But neither of our opinions matter, because of two facts: fake AI slop is profitable, and there are countless users doing the same thing. There’s absolutely nothing to stop them.

That is: the Instagram platform doesn’t just enable this behavior, it rewards it. So do other platforms. On Instagram and TikTok, FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from fake LA fires; on YouTube, it’s three-hour long Christmas music compilations with slop visuals of families shopping. None are clearly labeled. Disaster porn is just another kind of #content.

It doesn’t really matter what that content is: as long as it is ‘content that grabs attention,’ both sides can make money.

For the slop creator and the platform, this is a clear win-win, at least in the short term. The only loser here is the audience, who is unable to recognize slop when they see it.

There’s this thing that AI proponents like to say every time something new comes out: this is the worst it'll ever be. So far, they've been right, and they may well continue to be right. It’s hard to predict what happens next with AI, but I have one prediction I feel fairly comfortable making: unaided, most of us will always struggle to reliably recognize AI when we see it.

But it’s hard to blame us when two sides are conspiring against us: Instagram’s interface makes it almost impossible to tell, and creators are incentivized to lie by omission."

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISlop #SocialMedia #Instagram #TikTok #GeneratedImages #AISpam #Spammers #Spamming

Oh, look! 🎉 #Kernel folks are fighting *AI bots* with the good old #proof-of-work, because what better way to stay hip than embracing the 2009 #Bitcoin vibe? 🔨💼 Clearly, they believe #spamming CPUs is the future of bot management, because, you know, logic! 😂
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AsgziNL6zgmdbta3lY #AI #bots #humor #HackerNews #ngated

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

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

Apparently https://mastodon.luanti.ru is a #Spamming instance.

Why else would there be such #Spambots:

• https://mastodon.luanti.ru/@nicole17
• https://mastodon.luanti.ru/@nicole30

I suspect this instance doesn't even limut account amounts per IP...

@ai6yr Oh, yes. "Hi my name is Nicole from Toronto and I'm making identical accounts everywhere."
#spamming

Suddenly found this in my Mastodon timeline! How did that get there? I'd better mail hr@opm.gov to unsubscribe. Just passing along the message in case it was meant for any of you so you can either reply or unsubscribe. #elonsucks #elonmusk #doge #trumpcoup #trump #spamming #spam

220$ per entrare nella Polizia di Stato Italiana: l’inquietante offerta di EDRVendor. Su BreachForum un utente dallo pseudonimo EDRVendor ha venduto, dopo poche ore dall’annuncio, l’accesso ad una cassetta postale della #polizia di stato italiana. #cybersicurezza #spamming #pishing

220$ per entrare nella Polizia...

#TIL there are people who don't know the origin of the word #spam as in #spamming 😱😱😱
That needs to be remedied immediately!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKNt0MhTkk

"In the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "Spam" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming

Note to #Spammers!

Try to avoid #Spamming instance moderators…it won’t end well for you 🤦

https://toot.wales/admin/reports/1604

Hey, @protonprivacy - just received your promotional email, something about winning a free lifetime subscription. Appears to be the real thing.

Problem is, I was already unsubscribed from your "promotions & offers" and other promotional/marketing categories. Not cool, #spamming customers that have already opted out of that #junk.

Filter your marketing stuff properly. This just pisses people off.

#Proton #ProtonVPN #marketing #privacy #email #OptOut #OptIn

@DeltaWye @SynAck @Kuniti_shino @ErikUden OFC that's the nature of most services tht are open t new users.

• #Abuse being a statistical inevitability:

#Shitter (rather #Teitter before #Mus ruined it!) had #API #RateLimiting to make #Spamming less effective (255 Statuses per 24hrs) even back when #TweetDeck was a seperate company...

• Making dynamical limits that instantly lockout i.e. brand new accounts sending the same.message to 10+ others as a DM within 48 hours of registration should act as a speed-bump to #Spammers.

It won't prevent it entirely but make it more cumbersome.

• Sadly #Mastodon #Developers refuse to acknowledge the need for efficient filtering.and ban list managment that every other web-facing application / system can do using blocklist feeds.

This prevents remediation and correction of #banlists & #blocklists, leaving a lot if domains burned forever as the only.options are "replace" and "merge" and the average #ActivityPub admin or even #User isn't going to learn or setup a #git!

• which is frustrating as I maintain multiple blocklists to help cleaning up the mess.

I.e. there isn't really a good way to combat #Typosquatting-based #Phishing beyond banning.offending domains...

#Business #Explorations
Do we need even more top-level domains? · The good, the bad, and the ugly of new TLDs https://ilo.im/1618io

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#Domains #TLDs #DNS #ICANN #Branding #Spamming #Phishing #Development #WebDev #Backend

@KrissyKat espechally since #PhoneNumbers are #PII, #Spamming isn't prosecuted as a #felony and even if one doesn't live in a cyberfacist dystopia that demands "#KYC" on #Prepaid-#SIM|s they'd still have an expense.

• Also I find almost all #Newsletters to be #ValueRemoving #Spam they could've offered via #RSS instead or better yet, not at all!

This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon is seriously getting to be very frustrating to say the least.

I woke up and took a look at Mastodon about 45 minutes ago and I had to start my day by reporting 19 spam posts.

It's the same spam that's been going around for a week or so now that mass mentions people.

#Spam #Spamming #Spammers #MastoSpam #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #SpamAttack