More #spammers discovering the bug tracker (or anything else unsuitable) and asking for "guest post submissions" as if it was a blog or news site they could capture for link-backs ... dumb nuts.
Yeah I got one of those too a couple of days ago. Do a hover (mouseover, if you can), you'll recognize the domain as not being that of a legit origin for #metamask
Threads federates, you don't subscribe to anyone on the instance. Happy now?
Threads federates, you blacklist the whole instance in your user blacklist. Now happy?
Threads federates, you subscribe to a few people whose writing you like. Happy?
Threads federates. Threads users realize, they can jump ship to another Instance and still talk with and to and about their friends. Threads loses users. Happy!
If I had the funding, I'd explicity start an eMail provider that blocks everything but #E2EE - encrypted [ PGP/MIME ] eMails and forces everyone to properly encrypt their shit.
Because I ran out of spoons and 10+ years after #Snowden and #PRISM there is no excuse to act like a Snitch!
#Elon is really ramping it up again. #TwitterX just released audio and video calling, which is pretty kewl - had to actually login and test it myself; but what's really kewl is all the PayPal-like functionality coming to an #X near you, lolz.
It's about time he got busy finishing what he started off doing with #PayPal a couple of decades back before #eBay bought it.
I don't get #spammers... Someone #spams me, so I send them a quite specific email basically saying "looks like you've broken these specific parts of the law" and inviting them to negotiate a small amount of damages.
Best way to minimise costs is surely an apology, commitment to fix procedures, etc.
What I actually get: loud and abusive "we did nothing wrong", providing no evidence to show why they didn't break the specific legislative points I had raised...
They're still leaning on their "hot Asian girl" photos to get people to 'accept' connection requests...
...but they seem to have bailed on AI-generated profiles & resorted to just blatantly copying other people's bios.
But they're still hot garbage.
One flaw for example is, despite having 500+ connections, they always have a crap number of posts with absolutely zero likes or comments. Nice try, jackass.
@andrewt personally I find those fake phising messages by providers like #SoSafe annoying, as I treat any attempt of information extraction and intrusion equally serious.
I wrote them a pissed-off mail once and told them to stop insulting my intellect and wasting my time, cuz if it wasn't obvious they got paid for that shit I wpuld've pulled everything I legally can to 'burn' their entire ASN, IP allocations and domains as #spammers...
Today in admin news: A certain berlin club had the brilliant idea to automatically send out abuse notices whenever fail2ban notices unsuccessful login attempts in their IMAP logs. Our university chair just got their internet turned off because the uni's central IT got startled by a flood of abuse reports against our IP space. Guess what: Someone here who once held a now deleted mail account at the club still had it set up in their thunderbird, which dutifully tried to poll the inbox every 10min.
I'm more pissed off by #RogueISP|s that refuse to react to duely-made and legitimate #abuse reports.
For example, #GoDaddy literally harbours most of the #Spammers I've to deal with since they don't even bother to react to #AbuseReports at all and instead sent automated replies from a #NoReply adress telling that they won't do jack shite - even if one goes through their arcane #ticketing system to refile as demanded.
@iatendril OFC they can do something about their own customers they host, provide servers and/or domains to and thate are cringe asshats from the USA...
It's just that #GoDaddy decided not to do so explicitly and stating something aling the lines of:
'If you want to complain about a customer of ours spamming, then fuck off and make them stop spamming'...
They are a #RogueISP that knowingly supports #Spammers that illegally spam me.
The fact that #GoDaddy requires people, to do added labour beyond senting an eMail to abuse@godaddy.com is the reason why #Spammers love their services...
How is it even legal to sent eMails with falisied MX records, making replies impossible.
And yes, if I wasn't keen on staying with a clean record AND remain employable, I'd not ask politely but yeet the spammers offline.
Any other guys have weird spam accounts on here acting like attractive ladies nearby? I had one. It was so weird, she kept DMing me and giving me her email, asking if I was on Telegram, and her bio was so generic and bizarre, it was clearly phony. The bio was kind of odd, overcapitalized English and that's how the DMs were too-- despite her public posts (and there weren't many) being perfectly spelled (obviously copied from somewhere). The scammers are getting really good, too. Her profile had legit-seeming pics that pulled up nothing when I reverse image searched them. Plus, I'm married, and really? Cmon. I just had to block her.
#Google, #Yahoo & #Microsoft are notorious for ignoring #abuse reports and not giving any shit, yet instantly & silently block mailservers if they don't setup SPF the way they want it.