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Massive scam wave across multiple social media sites

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This issue was raised among Mastodon admins on the Fediverse but I've also had my share of suspiciously similar fake accounts on here just two days after I joined Spacehey three weeks ago.



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Affected sites include mastodon.social (and any instance with open registrations) and Bluesky. Over 12,000 accounts were counted on mastodon.social alone and all of them originate from Nigeria. Be careful who you accept as your friend!


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True, I've got ONE message request on bsky and it was a scam. don't get me started about deviantAI and tumblr 


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Tumblr has been plaqued by scams and bots for years, so that's not surprising at all.

I'm actually more surprised that deviantART still exists. I ditched it around the time they completely redesigned it and it already seemed pretty dead back then...


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