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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

#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

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

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