🚨New coordinated Mastodon attack targeting Palestinians from Gaza

Folks, please look out for newly-created accounts on mastodon.social targeting Palestinians from Gaza with what appear to be automated/similar messages aimed at either scamming them or otherwise causing them harm in some way.

Accounts I’ve already reported to @staff:

- @Danitimi@mastodon.social
- @bradoliver2050@mastodon.social
- @elizabethangel12@mastodon.social
- @mary1e1@mastodon.social

To the #GazaVerified families: if someone reaches out with similar posts, please do not engage and come to me instead. I will handle it.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #scam #spam #hasbara #israel #genocide #mastodon #fediverse

🚨New coordinated Mastodon attack targeting Palestinians from Gaza

Folks, please look out for newly-created accounts on mastodon.social targeting Palestinians from Gaza with what appear to be automated/similar messages aimed at either scamming them or otherwise causing them harm in some way.

Accounts I’ve already reported to @staff:

- @Danitimi@mastodon.social
- @bradoliver2050@mastodon.social
- @elizabethangel12@mastodon.social
- @mary1e1@mastodon.social

To the #GazaVerified families: if someone reaches out with similar posts, please do not engage and come to me instead. I will handle it.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #scam #spam #hasbara #israel #genocide #mastodon #fediverse

@cassidy, I thought they were bad after they never stopped sending me PS+ advertisements about new games added to it even after my subscription expired. But this is another level! 😒 #spam

Marre des appels indésirables ? Un développeur français vous propose de bloquer plus de 16 millions de numéros sur iOS et Android.
https://framablog.org/2025/09/23/sarah-qui-ca-raccroche/
#spam #ios #android

Do you know any app or #Android to block spam calls and messages through an #opensource and #decentralized network? It could be something like #mastodon and #fediverse which we have.

For instance, I block a number and report as spam. Anyone who wishes to, can follow me and block numbers which I block. So if a number calls me or messages me to spam, once I block them, they cannot call the ones who follow me.

Also I follow other people. I think this can be made on the top of #activitypub or #mastodon.

#spamfighting #againstspam #free_software #foss #mobilephone #spam

I want to prevent LLM web-scraping bots from stealing the content from @cryogenix but it's a Web 1.x website that has a no-JavaScript policy (except for designated sections)...

So I can't use Anubis, I don't and won't use CloudFlare (because of JS injecion and privacy concerns), and CrowdSec doesn't seem to protect against it.

What can we realistically do? I wouldn't want to make it a Tor/Onion-only website.

#AI #LLM #Spam #anubis

Y’all. This is a known spammer who is picking up momentum. We’re seeing LOTS of accounts using the same name and avatar. But the bio varies from instance to instance. And a minority of them don’t have an avatar, but still use the name.

If you see these accounts, please report them. We’re trying to wipe them out, but we can’t until we know about them.

Thanks for the teamwork! 🤝

#Spam #JimmyTruth #Teamwork #Moderation

@Framasoft oui, et le développeur est... @cbouvat 😊

#spam #ios #android

Marre des appels indésirables ? Un développeur français vous propose de bloquer plus de 16 millions de numéros sur iOS et Android.
https://framablog.org/2025/09/23/sarah-qui-ca-raccroche/
#spam #ios #android

Do you know any app or #Android to block spam calls and messages through an #opensource and #decentralized network? It could be something like #mastodon and #fediverse which we have.

For instance, I block a number and report as spam. Anyone who wishes to, can follow me and block numbers which I block. So if a number calls me or messages me to spam, once I block them, they cannot call the ones who follow me.

Also I follow other people. I think this can be made on the top of #activitypub or #mastodon.

#spamfighting #againstspam #free_software #foss #mobilephone #spam

Y’all. This is a known spammer who is picking up momentum. We’re seeing LOTS of accounts using the same name and avatar. But the bio varies from instance to instance. And a minority of them don’t have an avatar, but still use the name.

If you see these accounts, please report them. We’re trying to wipe them out, but we can’t until we know about them.

Thanks for the teamwork! 🤝

#Spam #JimmyTruth #Teamwork #Moderation

Have you been wondering why the list of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml has been expanding quicker than usual this week?

It's because I found another batch of old logs that are now getting the more thorough treatment (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamd #greytrapping #spam #cybercrime #openbsd

Have you been wondering why the list of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml has been expanding quicker than usual this week?

It's because I found another batch of old logs that are now getting the more thorough treatment (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamd #greytrapping #spam #cybercrime #openbsd

I am using Google Classroom, and Gmail is marking all email notifications from my Google classroom as spam. It's email generated by one Google product going into another Google product. What on earth is happening to flag the notification as spam?

#Google #GoogleClassroom #Gmail #spam #MonopolistsDontInnovate

This post is not an invitation to scold me for using Google products or to suggest alternatives. It is also not a request for technical support.

I saw something disturbing this morning.
One of my clients showed me an email. They use Gmail for their emails (on their own domain) and download them locally.
The email officially came from their company president, giving the purchasing department orders to immediately pay an invoice of around €20,000 to a new supplier in the UK. It included all the details and had the invoice attached as a PDF.

The worrying part is that the style and tone of the writing were exactly like their president's. However, the sender's address, while using the correct name, was a generic Gmail account. This immediately raised a red flag for the purchasing department, and they didn't fall for it. It was also easy for them to check because the president was in their office at that very moment.

Looking at the sender's address, it would have been simple for anyone to figure out what was happening, but many people don't.
The accuracy with which they (likely using an LLM) recreated the president's writing style is truly concerning.

#Scam#Spam#FakeSender