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Got followed by a relatively large number of suspious accounts

A topic by Spelbaar® created Jul 28, 2024 Views: 183 Replies: 4

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Yesterday evening (local time) I suddenly got followed by 9 accounts, which all have the following in common:

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three to five numbers after their name
the letters before the numbers are arranged consonant/vowel/consonant/vowel, etc.
created approximately within an hour or two of following me
started following me within a very short time-span (basically all at the same time)
follow 3 or 4 other accounts, but nothing else on their accounts (as far as I can see at least)

This is surprising to me, since those now form just over half of my followers all of a sudden.

So, I guess my question is, what’s up with that? Am I being used to make their accounts less suspicious? (If so, they’re not doing a very good job.)

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No Time To PlayModerator214 days ago(+1)

Sounds like uncaught spam accounts. It might be a good idea to contact support and let them know.

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Spelbaar®214 days ago

Thanks, I’ve taken your advice and done just that :-)

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redonihunter214 days ago

The fake network I reported is still up and running. I reported it 12 weeks ago. Request ID 207509.

And from the bunch of hacked accounts reported today, some looked like they have fake ratings and fake followers.

Those incidents look unrelated though. But fake accounts are a problem. The fake accounts in the network I reported are made by another pattern. And they do not follow. but post comments. I am not sure what they payload of this activtiy is, but maybe to command an army to manipulate ratings and rankings. There is a market for fake ratings and clicks.

How the fake accounts on the scam pages look or do, I of course do not know. But I refuse to believe that so many real people follow and uprate scams.

Maybe they fake followed the wrong account here. Scammers are still human, even if they try very hard to convince us otherwise.

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Spelbaar®212 days ago(+2)

For what it’s worth, support did send me a mail a few hours ago, and removed the accounts I reported (and a few more of the same that followed me later).

Currently, the deleted accounts still show up in my follower-page (but they link to 404s) – which I expect will get fixed over time (or not, I can live with it :-p – but the most important thing is that it’s handled at all).

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