#spammers — Public Fediverse posts

For those who are tired of #AI, just wanted to let you know I’ve been using #DuckDuckGo for the past 6 years or possibly longer, and they have the ability to disable AI answers, hide AI images in search results and even protect your #email from #spammers. Give them a try if you are tired of #Google

Quando pagar para reportar vira problema: spammers de IA e o colapso da triagem

Pagar pra submeter um report? 😳 Isso virou realidade — e está acabando com a triagem de segurança.

• O que está acontecendo:
- Especialistas estão tendo que pagar para submeter reports que muitas vezes são negados.

• Por que isso aconteceu:
- Spammers de IA estão “reportando por reportar” e inundando as filas de triagem.

•...

#cybersegurança #spammers #IA #segurança #bugbounty #hackers #MorningCrypto

Quando pagar para reportar vira problema: spammers de IA e o colapso da triagem

Pagar pra submeter um report? 😳 Isso virou realidade — e está acabando com a triagem de segurança.

• O que está acontecendo:
- Especialistas estão tendo que pagar para submeter reports que muitas vezes são negados.

• Por que isso aconteceu:
- Spammers de IA estão “reportando por reportar” e inundando as filas de triagem.

•...

#cybersegurança #spammers #IA #segurança #bugbounty #hackers #MorningCrypto

@TuutW : zoals ik eerder schreef: blokkeren heeft nauwelijks tot geen zin. De meeste spammers gebruiken gehackte e-mailadressen of beschikken over een mailserver met een steeds wijzigende domeinnaam en/of wijzigend IP-adres.

Technisch: zij zorgen er tevens voor dat zaken als SPF, DKIM en DMARC correct zijn geconfigureerd. Veel mensen denken dat dit antispam-maatregelen zijn, maar dat is onjuist. Als al die mechanismes correct zijn opgezet, verzekert die combinatie dat een e-mail met als SMTP afzender:

<[email protected]>

daadwerkelijk is verzonden door een mailserver die e-mail mag verzenden namens "example.com".

Voorbeelden van afzenders van recente phishingmails die ik ontving in het plaatje hieronder.

Een m.i. groot probleem is dat e-mail-apps op smartphones (vanwege de beperkte ruimte op het scherm) het SMTP-adres niet tonen (vaak zijn er meerdere kliks nodig om het SMTP-adres te zien te krijgen). De meeste mensen doen dat niet.

Ik probeer straks nog een vervolg-antwoord te schrijven over gratis domeinnamen eindigend op (onder veel meer):

.ns01.info

Het zou mij niet verbazen als er elke dag meer dan 1 miljoen unieke domeinnamen worden gehuurd (nieuw of opnieuw in gebruik genomen).

@apenkop

#Spam #Spammers #Phishing #DomeinNaam #GratisDomeinNamen

@TuutW : zoals ik eerder schreef: blokkeren heeft nauwelijks tot geen zin. De meeste spammers gebruiken gehackte e-mailadressen of beschikken over een mailserver met een steeds wijzigende domeinnaam en/of wijzigend IP-adres.

Technisch: zij zorgen er tevens voor dat zaken als SPF, DKIM en DMARC correct zijn geconfigureerd. Veel mensen denken dat dit antispam-maatregelen zijn, maar dat is onjuist. Als al die mechanismes correct zijn opgezet, verzekert die combinatie dat een e-mail met als SMTP afzender:

<[email protected]>

daadwerkelijk is verzonden door een mailserver die e-mail mag verzenden namens "example.com".

Voorbeelden van afzenders van recente phishingmails die ik ontving in het plaatje hieronder.

Een m.i. groot probleem is dat e-mail-apps op smartphones (vanwege de beperkte ruimte op het scherm) het SMTP-adres niet tonen (vaak zijn er meerdere kliks nodig om het SMTP-adres te zien te krijgen). De meeste mensen doen dat niet.

Ik probeer straks nog een vervolg-antwoord te schrijven over gratis domeinnamen eindigend op (onder veel meer):

.ns01.info

Het zou mij niet verbazen als er elke dag meer dan 1 miljoen unieke domeinnamen worden gehuurd (nieuw of opnieuw in gebruik genomen).

@apenkop

#Spam #Spammers #Phishing #DomeinNaam #GratisDomeinNamen

@TuutW : zoals ik eerder schreef: blokkeren heeft nauwelijks tot geen zin. De meeste spammers gebruiken gehackte e-mailadressen of beschikken over een mailserver met een steeds wijzigende domeinnaam en/of wijzigend IP-adres.

Technisch: zij zorgen er tevens voor dat zaken als SPF, DKIM en DMARC correct zijn geconfigureerd. Veel mensen denken dat dit antispam-maatregelen zijn, maar dat is onjuist. Als al die mechanismes correct zijn opgezet, verzekert die combinatie dat een e-mail met als SMTP afzender:

<[email protected]>

daadwerkelijk is verzonden door een mailserver die e-mail mag verzenden namens "example.com".

Voorbeelden van afzenders van recente phishingmails die ik ontving in het plaatje hieronder.

Een m.i. groot probleem is dat e-mail-apps op smartphones (vanwege de beperkte ruimte op het scherm) het SMTP-adres niet tonen (vaak zijn er meerdere kliks nodig om het SMTP-adres te zien te krijgen). De meeste mensen doen dat niet.

Ik probeer straks nog een vervolg-antwoord te schrijven over gratis domeinnamen eindigend op (onder veel meer):

.ns01.info

Het zou mij niet verbazen als er elke dag meer dan 1 miljoen unieke domeinnamen worden gehuurd (nieuw of opnieuw in gebruik genomen).

@apenkop

#Spam #Spammers #Phishing #DomeinNaam #GratisDomeinNamen

@TuutW : zoals ik eerder schreef: blokkeren heeft nauwelijks tot geen zin. De meeste spammers gebruiken gehackte e-mailadressen of beschikken over een mailserver met een steeds wijzigende domeinnaam en/of wijzigend IP-adres.

Technisch: zij zorgen er tevens voor dat zaken als SPF, DKIM en DMARC correct zijn geconfigureerd. Veel mensen denken dat dit antispam-maatregelen zijn, maar dat is onjuist. Als al die mechanismes correct zijn opgezet, verzekert die combinatie dat een e-mail met als SMTP afzender:

<[email protected]>

daadwerkelijk is verzonden door een mailserver die e-mail mag verzenden namens "example.com".

Voorbeelden van afzenders van recente phishingmails die ik ontving in het plaatje hieronder.

Een m.i. groot probleem is dat e-mail-apps op smartphones (vanwege de beperkte ruimte op het scherm) het SMTP-adres niet tonen (vaak zijn er meerdere kliks nodig om het SMTP-adres te zien te krijgen). De meeste mensen doen dat niet.

Ik probeer straks nog een vervolg-antwoord te schrijven over gratis domeinnamen eindigend op (onder veel meer):

.ns01.info

Het zou mij niet verbazen als er elke dag meer dan 1 miljoen unieke domeinnamen worden gehuurd (nieuw of opnieuw in gebruik genomen).

@apenkop

#Spam #Spammers #Phishing #DomeinNaam #GratisDomeinNamen

Oh wow, Terence Eden unlocked the Da Vinci Code of blog spam! 🎉 Turns out, some #spammers have evolved to the point where they can unleash a whole "conversation" in the comments section. Surely, this groundbreaking revelation will shake the foundations of #WordPress 🤣.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ #TerenceEden #DaVinciCode #BlogSpam #Evolution #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

Oh wow, Terence Eden unlocked the Da Vinci Code of blog spam! 🎉 Turns out, some #spammers have evolved to the point where they can unleash a whole "conversation" in the comments section. Surely, this groundbreaking revelation will shake the foundations of #WordPress 🤣.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ #TerenceEden #DaVinciCode #BlogSpam #Evolution #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

Oh wow, Terence Eden unlocked the Da Vinci Code of blog spam! 🎉 Turns out, some #spammers have evolved to the point where they can unleash a whole "conversation" in the comments section. Surely, this groundbreaking revelation will shake the foundations of #WordPress 🤣.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ #TerenceEden #DaVinciCode #BlogSpam #Evolution #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

Oh wow, Terence Eden unlocked the Da Vinci Code of blog spam! 🎉 Turns out, some #spammers have evolved to the point where they can unleash a whole "conversation" in the comments section. Surely, this groundbreaking revelation will shake the foundations of #WordPress 🤣.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ #TerenceEden #DaVinciCode #BlogSpam #Evolution #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

Oh wow, Terence Eden unlocked the Da Vinci Code of blog spam! 🎉 Turns out, some #spammers have evolved to the point where they can unleash a whole "conversation" in the comments section. Surely, this groundbreaking revelation will shake the foundations of #WordPress 🤣.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ #TerenceEden #DaVinciCode #BlogSpam #Evolution #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/

→ Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/

“Here are some of the best techniques for keeping email addresses hidden from spammers—along with the statistics on how likely they are to be broken.”

#email #spammers #obfuscation

Emma from NC Roofing is the new Rachel of Card Services.

I flushed out the identity of one of these criminals and left a sizzling one-star review. They lied in the response.

Of course it was a Christian-owned business with US flags all over the website.

#spam #spammers #roofing

EasyMyTrip, ClearTrip and all, if you do not have unsubscribe, I am marking you as spam.
#spammers #unsolicitedmails

EasyMyTrip, ClearTrip and all, if you do not have unsubscribe, I am marking you as spam.
#spammers #unsolicitedmails

EasyMyTrip, ClearTrip and all, if you do not have unsubscribe, I am marking you as spam.
#spammers #unsolicitedmails

EasyMyTrip, ClearTrip and all, if you do not have unsubscribe, I am marking you as spam.
#spammers #unsolicitedmails

New Project Idea:

LLM based Scam-Baiting Stack for unsolicited IP Broker Spam Mails.

Who's in?

#IPv4 #Spammers

My biggest political regret of all time is using Act Blue to make donations.

The endless text and email spam generated by that decision is literally unstoppable.

There's no universal opt out option available, and they claim zero responsibility for the actions of any entity that uses the data their platform provides to its users.

This should be illegal in all contexts, but data brokers are immune from all consequences.

Act Blue is a data broker, über alles

DO NOT USE THEM

#ActBlue #spammers

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.

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

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

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

Known spam Fediverse servers

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

#Spam #Spammers #Fediblock

#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

pixelfed.social seems to attract quite a few #spammers doesn’t it? Perhaps the young lady who started following me that doesn’t appear to be able to afford many clothes should get in contact with the Azerbaijani who wants to give me $250000. Maybe they could help her expand her wardrobe.

#admins look out for these #spammers joining your #instance to post:

[email protected]

[email protected]

EDIT: They appear to be active again as of Tuesday Sept 9, 2025

I got a phone call from a number I did not recognize. I waited, then heard the pause and click that let me know it was an auto caller.

I spoke excitedly with a strange, made-up accent.

HEY-LOW???

Yes. This is KW air duct...

WAIT. YOU HAVE DUCK?

...yes

I LOVE DUCK. YOU HAVE ONE THAT LAY EGGS?

...

IT NOT LAY EGGS? THAT OK, I LIKE BOY DUCK TOO.

*click*

#spam #Spammers #FunWithSpammers

I got a phone call from a number I did not recognize. I waited, then heard the pause and click that let me know it was an auto caller.

I spoke excitedly with a strange, made-up accent.

HEY-LOW???

Yes. This is KW air duct...

WAIT. YOU HAVE DUCK?

...yes

I LOVE DUCK. YOU HAVE ONE THAT LAY EGGS?

...

IT NOT LAY EGGS? THAT OK, I LIKE BOY DUCK TOO.

*click*

#spam #Spammers #FunWithSpammers

I got a phone call from a number I did not recognize. I waited, then heard the pause and click that let me know it was an auto caller.

I spoke excitedly with a strange, made-up accent.

HEY-LOW???

Yes. This is KW air duct...

WAIT. YOU HAVE DUCK?

...yes

I LOVE DUCK. YOU HAVE ONE THAT LAY EGGS?

...

IT NOT LAY EGGS? THAT OK, I LIKE BOY DUCK TOO.

*click*

#spam #Spammers #FunWithSpammers

I got a phone call from a number I did not recognize. I waited, then heard the pause and click that let me know it was an auto caller.

I spoke excitedly with a strange, made-up accent.

HEY-LOW???

Yes. This is KW air duct...

WAIT. YOU HAVE DUCK?

...yes

I LOVE DUCK. YOU HAVE ONE THAT LAY EGGS?

...

IT NOT LAY EGGS? THAT OK, I LIKE BOY DUCK TOO.

*click*

#spam #Spammers #FunWithSpammers

I got a phone call from a number I did not recognize. I waited, then heard the pause and click that let me know it was an auto caller.

I spoke excitedly with a strange, made-up accent.

HEY-LOW???

Yes. This is KW air duct...

WAIT. YOU HAVE DUCK?

...yes

I LOVE DUCK. YOU HAVE ONE THAT LAY EGGS?

...

IT NOT LAY EGGS? THAT OK, I LIKE BOY DUCK TOO.

*click*

#spam #Spammers #FunWithSpammers

In certain countries one has to submit proof of id to obtain a mobile or landline #phone number. So why #telemarketing #spammers can rent numbers by the thousands without being identified?

Some spam I got this morning:

"[Some app] uses unique private keys for each transaction."

:catthinking:

If the security features of your app, which I've never heard of before, are such that you feel the need to advertise them through *spam*, what does it say about those very same features?

Marshall McLuhan famously said, "The medium is the message."

What message do you think you are sending when you are sending it through the medium of a spam comment on my blog?

I'll tell you: "I'm a liar and my app is shit."

I'd be hard-pressed to find a worse medium for your ad.

#spam #spammers #security #MarshallMcLuhan #TheMediumIsTheMessage

Some spam I got this morning:

"[Some app] uses unique private keys for each transaction."

:catthinking:

If the security features of your app, which I've never heard of before, are such that you feel the need to advertise them through *spam*, what does it say about those very same features?

Marshall McLuhan famously said, "The medium is the message."

What message do you think you are sending when you are sending it through the medium of a spam comment on my blog?

I'll tell you: "I'm a liar and my app is shit."

I'd be hard-pressed to find a worse medium for your ad.

#spam #spammers #security #MarshallMcLuhan #TheMediumIsTheMessage

Some spam I got this morning:

"[Some app] uses unique private keys for each transaction."

:catthinking:

If the security features of your app, which I've never heard of before, are such that you feel the need to advertise them through *spam*, what does it say about those very same features?

Marshall McLuhan famously said, "The medium is the message."

What message do you think you are sending when you are sending it through the medium of a spam comment on my blog?

I'll tell you: "I'm a liar and my app is shit."

I'd be hard-pressed to find a worse medium for your ad.

#spam #spammers #security #MarshallMcLuhan #TheMediumIsTheMessage

Some spam I got this morning:

"[Some app] uses unique private keys for each transaction."

:catthinking:

If the security features of your app, which I've never heard of before, are such that you feel the need to advertise them through *spam*, what does it say about those very same features?

Marshall McLuhan famously said, "The medium is the message."

What message do you think you are sending when you are sending it through the medium of a spam comment on my blog?

I'll tell you: "I'm a liar and my app is shit."

I'd be hard-pressed to find a worse medium for your ad.

#spam #spammers #security #MarshallMcLuhan #TheMediumIsTheMessage

"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

Blogging Simplified: Engagement. Am I Doing It Right? https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2024/06/17/blogging-simplified-engagement-am-i-doing-it-right/ #BloggingAdvice, #BloggingHelp, #BloggingQuestions, #Comments, #HelpWithBlogging, #HowTo, #QuestionsAboutBlogging, #RespondingToComments, #Spam, #Spammers

En nosotros está la desición de detener el #spam y mantener limpias las redes y los correos libres de este cáncer.
#spambots #spammers #SpamAttack #SpamEmail

Please note: even though I despise #spammers and truly believe that spamming demonstrates a fundamental ethical gap which is probably not fillable, I expect to be voting for the 2 #MIDEMS who have spammed my phone in the general election. Maybe even in primaries. BECAUSE POLITICS IS NOT PROPERLY ABOUT MESSIAHS.

Christina Hines and Mallory McMorrow aren't good people. They're politicians, so this was known. They are spammers, which is a norm these days for politicians.

#Michigan #Democrats

Please note: even though I despise #spammers and truly believe that spamming demonstrates a fundamental ethical gap which is probably not fillable, I expect to be voting for the 2 #MIDEMS who have spammed my phone in the general election. Maybe even in primaries. BECAUSE POLITICS IS NOT PROPERLY ABOUT MESSIAHS.

Christina Hines and Mallory McMorrow aren't good people. They're politicians, so this was known. They are spammers, which is a norm these days for politicians.

#Michigan #Democrats

Please note: even though I despise #spammers and truly believe that spamming demonstrates a fundamental ethical gap which is probably not fillable, I expect to be voting for the 2 #MIDEMS who have spammed my phone in the general election. Maybe even in primaries. BECAUSE POLITICS IS NOT PROPERLY ABOUT MESSIAHS.

Christina Hines and Mallory McMorrow aren't good people. They're politicians, so this was known. They are spammers, which is a norm these days for politicians.

#Michigan #Democrats

Looks like the #scam #spammers are at it again today. The target are people living in #Italia on the lookout for email from the country's #tax agency, the Agenzia delle #Entrate.

The messages flooded in all day linking to alphabet-soup subdomains of the domain page[.]link, leading to geofenced webpages that were #phishing for banking information from people in Italy who click the links.

(If you were using an IP address not linked to #Italy, you ended up on a blank page.)

The attack was apparently so vigorous, it caused a DDoS on the Agencia delle Entrate's website. Prestiamo attenzione!

More information about the attack (in Italian) from Red Hot Cyber https://www.redhotcyber.com/post/lagenzia-delle-entrate-utilizzata-per-una-vasta-campagna-di-phishing-prestiamo-attenzione/

Note to #Spammers!

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

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

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