I'm getting random "sexy lady" avatar followers with links to their "private 18+" today from mastodon.world. Looks like they are trying a new tactic to stay under the radar by only following 10 to 15 from each account. No doubt that requires a lot of accounts, so must mean they've fully automated account creation.
I reported them to the host moderator. Hopefully this will get nipped soon.
HELP!
I have a follower listed as shown in the photo below.
I can’t block the account because clicking on the avatar doesn’t take me to the account’s page—just does a short buffer.
I don’t know if it’s connected but recently I’ve gotten a bunch of follows from women wanting to “connect” which I have been able to block.
What is this? How can I block it?
#mastodon #MastodonSpam #mastodonmigration
@jwildeboer FYI as well as the dot-social spam follows, I've just now received one from mastodon.world. So you may need to set your limitation rules a bit more widely.
I'm planning on turning on approval follow requests rather than automatically accepting them for the next 24 hours or so.
This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon has been pretty bad over the last 2 - 3 days.
I think I've personally reported close to 50 accounts so far and I'm still getting them as we speak.
I see the spambots are back on Mastodon. They still haven't fixed this?
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#spam #MastodonSpam #Mastodon
@root@mindly.social @mindly.social@mindly.social
We have received a bunch of empty Admin Reports from @mindly.social and our reaction have been to Suspended their system account to avoid further spam from them, and Silenced them to help keeping they users of the grid. This is also done to protect the fediverse against CloudFlare's tracking and spying on users and absorbance of [PII](/articles/MTX-A-79/PII) data
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## About mindly.social
A review of their instance shows us a miss configured instance
Host mindly.social
Software mastodon / 4.2.12
Administrator (Unknown) ((Unknown))mindly.commindly.social. 3600 IN NS duke.ns.cloudflare.com.
mindly.social. 3600 IN NS jean.ns.cloudflare.com.
mindly.social. 300 IN A 188.114.97.3
mindly.social. 300 IN A 188.114.96.3Mindly.Social aims to be a friendly, non-topic specific community focused on spreading positivity, expanding your knowledge and experiences, and just being plain old happy on social media for once.What?? you just proven the opposed by attacking matrix.rocks with spam bombs
@adam@social.lol @social.lol@social.lol
thanks for not using any time before spamming the #moderators at @matrix.rocks with junk reports
And no, I'm not a robot, I'm the admin.
And if you had spent a second before spamming with your report abuse, you would notice that I've changed the timeline from home to public.. so try to relax and place your feeds on the ground.
PS: your admin account is now #suspended for spamming
#adminspam #adminspam #hallofshame #infosec #mastodon #mastodonadmin #mastodonadminspammers #mastodonmoderation #mastodonreportspam #mastodonspam #mastodonspamadmins #reportspam #spammers #spamming #spamreport #suspendedadmins
Seriously... @martinmuc@muenchen.social
What is this a report for?? Did you even read it yourself before #spamming me?
Parental Advisory 
[
"users/9ko0uiloky",
"https://matrix.rocks/notes/9qpjlcxxpj"
]@stux@mstdn.social
Seriously...
If this isn’t kiddie porn it’s damn close as are a lot of this accounts posts.
[
"users/9k7rpcly2e",
"https://matrix.rocks/notes/9qp6m1gx4e"
]
Reporter: @masto.ai@masto.aiThis whole spam issue here at Mastodon is giving me Yahoo Messenger vibes from the 2000s.
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#MastodonSpam #Spam #Yahoo #YahooMessenger #Chatrooms #oldtechnology
What we had to deal with for a whole week on Mastodon...
Meanwhile on Sharkey, just one non-Japanese Culture/Media business account that we suspended.
#mastodon #mastodonspam #mastoadmin #meme
Notice: We will be limiting techhub.social due to Doge DM Crypto SPAM received by an instance admin. The server will be temporarily limited/silenced until the SPAM wave on that server is resolved.
This is not a defederation, a limit still allows you to follow users from that server and users from that server can follow users here. This is a temporary measure as a silence/limit prevents any DMS if the user is not being followed by our users.
We will lift the limit in 24 hours and we have already suspended the email domain the bots are using from the Mastodon server and the email send server that sends out emails.
