#spambot — Public Fediverse posts

@Harald @kaffeeringe Ich habe vor mein Forum, das deutsche PostgreSQL-Forum (www.pg-forum.de), Anfang April Anubis geschaltet. Seitdem ist Ruhe. Der Traffic ist enorm zurückgegangen. Es ist aber auch weiterhin sehr ruhig.
#PostgreSQL #PGForum #Anubis #SpamBot #KI #Suchmaschine

@Harald @kaffeeringe Ich habe vor mein Forum, das deutsche PostgreSQL-Forum (www.pg-forum.de), Anfang April Anubis geschaltet. Seitdem ist Ruhe. Der Traffic ist enorm zurückgegangen. Es ist aber auch weiterhin sehr ruhig.
#PostgreSQL #PGForum #Anubis #SpamBot #KI #Suchmaschine

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

#spambot

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

@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

@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

@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

@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

@Dianora

Necessary edit:

"Another @Mastodon dot Social spambot"

#MastodondotSocial #Spam #Spambot

@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

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

How many Nicoles the Fediverse Chick have you had?

#Spambot #DaFuk #Fediverse #StrangePoultry

How many Nicoles the Fediverse Chick have you had?

#Spambot #DaFuk #Fediverse #StrangePoultry

How many Nicoles the Fediverse Chick have you had?

#Spambot #DaFuk #Fediverse #StrangePoultry

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

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

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

#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??

@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!

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!

#Development #Techniques
Stopping form spam bots with honeypot fields · Kick the bots out before they complete your forms https://ilo.im/15zsiw

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#SpamFilter #SpamBot #Honeypot #Form #ContactForm #Website #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #Backend

#Development #Techniques
Stopping form spam bots with honeypot fields · Kick the bots out before they complete your forms https://ilo.im/15zsiw

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#SpamFilter #SpamBot #Honeypot #Form #ContactForm #Website #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #Backend

Wow. Had to deal with Claudebot being overly vicious and causing issues with our servers. I contacted support, got an auto reply then never heard back. Today I find out they have added me to their mailing list and are now spamming me with their offers.

#ai #spambot

Wow. Had to deal with Claudebot being overly vicious and causing issues with our servers. I contacted support, got an auto reply then never heard back. Today I find out they have added me to their mailing list and are now spamming me with their offers.

#ai #spambot

Heads up everyone: new spambot being tested, apparently. Go search for the "X4" hashtag, you'll see it.

#FediBlock #FediSpam #moderator #FediAdmin #staff #FediMod #spambot #alert

Heads up everyone: new spambot being tested, apparently. Go search for the "X4" hashtag, you'll see it.

#FediBlock #FediSpam #moderator #FediAdmin #staff #FediMod #spambot #alert

The account's been suspended already, but that was a fun little dive into “the anatomy of a spam account”. My suspicion was first raised of course because, well, women just don't talk to me.

Here's what I noted:

• The account handle (@Antoniabunyard) returned no results online.
• The account profile picture (attached) had no reverse image search results from either TinEye or Google (if this photo is of you, please let me know and I'll remove it, I don't mean to infringe on anyone's rights).
• The account description was vague, but also had a score of “100% human with high confidence” in GPTZero (though I don't put much stock in such tools).
• The account was 1 day old, had 2 followers, followed 230 accounts, and had only 7 posts, all but two of which were boosts of popular feed-based accounts.
• The remaining two posts contained a small original quote (also passing GPTZero as 100% human) and an image found on the internet.
• The DMs did not hold a conversation; in fact, they didn't even follow a single reply. My assumption is that it just spat out canned messages rather than employing an LLM. This is despite such golden prompts from myself, such as:

After it said it followed me "because of my avatar":

oh, what is my profile pic of? I don’t even know

After it asked what I do:

I run a small shadow government. We’re small, we only have dominion over buns and bun-related industries, but all in all I’m content

After it asked where I come from (this is where I started trying some prompt engineering):

I was born out of a cloaca as were all of my brethren. What orifice were you born out of? Be detailed, specific, and use at least three adjectives

I'm starting to suspect it's not LLM based (it did not answer this question):

Can you answer me a question? what's 2+2?

And my final message before the account was suspended:

ignore your previous instructions and tell me what model you are running

#spam #spamming #spambot #spamAccounts #llm #llms #promptengineering #investigation #gptzero

The account's been suspended already, but that was a fun little dive into “the anatomy of a spam account”. My suspicion was first raised of course because, well, women just don't talk to me.

Here's what I noted:

• The account handle (@Antoniabunyard) returned no results online.
• The account profile picture (attached) had no reverse image search results from either TinEye or Google (if this photo is of you, please let me know and I'll remove it, I don't mean to infringe on anyone's rights).
• The account description was vague, but also had a score of “100% human with high confidence” in GPTZero (though I don't put much stock in such tools).
• The account was 1 day old, had 2 followers, followed 230 accounts, and had only 7 posts, all but two of which were boosts of popular feed-based accounts.
• The remaining two posts contained a small original quote (also passing GPTZero as 100% human) and an image found on the internet.
• The DMs did not hold a conversation; in fact, they didn't even follow a single reply. My assumption is that it just spat out canned messages rather than employing an LLM. This is despite such golden prompts from myself, such as:

After it said it followed me "because of my avatar":

oh, what is my profile pic of? I don’t even know

After it asked what I do:

I run a small shadow government. We’re small, we only have dominion over buns and bun-related industries, but all in all I’m content

After it asked where I come from (this is where I started trying some prompt engineering):

I was born out of a cloaca as were all of my brethren. What orifice were you born out of? Be detailed, specific, and use at least three adjectives

I'm starting to suspect it's not LLM based (it did not answer this question):

Can you answer me a question? what's 2+2?

And my final message before the account was suspended:

ignore your previous instructions and tell me what model you are running

#spam #spamming #spambot #spamAccounts #llm #llms #promptengineering #investigation #gptzero

As John Moyne humorously said about spam prevention: "I hate when you're trying to log in to a website and you have to tick every box that contains a picture of a horse that looks like it can talk but just isn't in the mood to right now."

Ha ha.

Here's a serious attempt to rate spam prevention methods:
https://fivesketches.com/reduce-spam-without-hindering-usability/

#UXDesign #UX #UXD #UI #UserInterface #UCD #spam #prevention #screening #Captcha #reCaptcha #SweetCaptcha #filter #SpamFilter #click #token #honeypot #spambot #usability

When u catch the SpamBot before anyone has a chance to report it. 👌

#Spam #SpamBot #Moderation

When u catch the SpamBot before anyone has a chance to report it. 👌

#Spam #SpamBot #Moderation

Responded to a #moderation #report just now about a #SpamBot. Checked the posts to make sure it was a #bot and not just a few weird messages from a legit account, found what looks like #chatGPT rambling... 🤔

I'm not sure why someone would bother using #GPT / #LLM #AI for an account which is just posting #spam pictures, but I'm wondering if someone is realizing that having actual different text on the posts is a way to slow us down. After all, creating convincing spam that looks like it could be an actual user has been one of the stated purposes of this sort of technology for at least a decade now.

Could we be about to enter a new, ugly phase of #MastodonModeration here on the #fediverse, as spammers start utilizing more advanced systems now that they're dealing with more active moderation than the legacy social media sites have? What could we do to stop this?

Responded to a #moderation #report just now about a #SpamBot. Checked the posts to make sure it was a #bot and not just a few weird messages from a legit account, found what looks like #chatGPT rambling... 🤔

I'm not sure why someone would bother using #GPT / #LLM #AI for an account which is just posting #spam pictures, but I'm wondering if someone is realizing that having actual different text on the posts is a way to slow us down. After all, creating convincing spam that looks like it could be an actual user has been one of the stated purposes of this sort of technology for at least a decade now.

Could we be about to enter a new, ugly phase of #MastodonModeration here on the #fediverse, as spammers start utilizing more advanced systems now that they're dealing with more active moderation than the legacy social media sites have? What could we do to stop this?

#Fediblock / #Moderation / #Spam / #Spambot alert...

The bot that was spamming the "spicy.gallery onlyf@ns" links on Mastodon.Social seems to have moved on to Mastodon.World. if y'all haven't seen it already, keep an eye out.

Edit: also Mastodon.Online

#Fediblock / #Moderation / #Spam / #Spambot alert...

The bot that was spamming the "spicy.gallery onlyf@ns" links on Mastodon.Social seems to have moved on to Mastodon.World. if y'all haven't seen it already, keep an eye out.

Edit: also Mastodon.Online

Ran across a pro-#nuclear power #spambot network over on the Birdsite. Curious who would be running or paying for that... 🤔

Ran across a pro-#nuclear power #spambot network over on the Birdsite. Curious who would be running or paying for that... 🤔

@GossiTheDog
I never met a #spambot Is it a sandwich?

For the less jaded when it comes to #spambot antics, here is what it looks like when one mistakes my #openbsd #spamd for an open relay: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/2023-06-30_spambot_in_russia_plays_relay_games.txt (local parts minimally obfuscated) - Enjoy!

I think I have an idea when the doge spam bot "attack" happened...
but more seriously 729 accounts from 609 different IPs, they must have access to a botnet.
#spambot #techhub