Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
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@jdp23 @dsilverman it would be nice if he were to be more active here. Although I have to admit, I've gotten used to the idea that you all are NOT people I'll know IRL
Agreed. Although with people I'm mutuals with here, I think of it more as I don't know them IRL yet.
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman Unfortunately, two of the three websites in your profile, intended to verify your identity, failed to load due to a Cloudfare failure.
Keyoxide is a decentralized open-source service / protocol designed to cryptographically verify a user's identity across various platforms. A decentralized Keybase alternative.
Here's my profile: https://keyoxide.org/hkp/caae2b895a37b493a3d5bf992b776f390fc927b5
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman I had this pulled on my by several pro-Russian accounts operating from chinese servers in 2024. It’s nasty!
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman This is a deliberate effort to enshittify our platform.
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
I tried to reply as if I had been taken in, but what/whoever is running them is not really up to holding a conversation.
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@dsilverman Unfortunately, two of the three websites in your profile, intended to verify your identity, failed to load due to a Cloudfare failure.
Keyoxide is a decentralized open-source service / protocol designed to cryptographically verify a user's identity across various platforms. A decentralized Keybase alternative.
Here's my profile: https://keyoxide.org/hkp/caae2b895a37b493a3d5bf992b776f390fc927b5
@AtanasE Yeah, they were early attempts at verification. This has become the primary way now:
How do I verify my account on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
(fedi.tips)
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman PLEASE KNOW I am not impersonating anyone, I started here for the first time with these underscores. Lol.
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman all I got today was somebody looking for money. Nobody who followed me, nobody I followed, nobody I'd ever seen post anywhere, in a private mention.
I thought those were restricted to mutual follows.
Blocked.
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@AtanasE Yeah, they were early attempts at verification. This has become the primary way now:
How do I verify my account on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
(fedi.tips)
@dsilverman I wasn't aware of that. Thank you!
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman
well done. thank you. -
@dsilverman PLEASE KNOW I am not impersonating anyone, I started here for the first time with these underscores. Lol.
@Mage_of_Chaos @dsilverman Mage_of_SUSPICION
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@dsilverman I had this pulled on my by several pro-Russian accounts operating from chinese servers in 2024. It’s nasty!
@gimulnautti cripes!
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman aww, just like twitter used to fake
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman I'll report if I find any, to the instance admins they're on
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
No, no, no, you never boost anything where the OP asks you to boost... It's the first rule of anti-SPAM posting
.Unless you have been the target, personally, of the said problem, boosting just makes you part of the SPAM problem.
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman Thanks for the heads up!
Also, not a bot here but did follow you just now as I followed you forever on the bird-site and miss the link to houston on my timeline
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
@dsilverman https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman/116154971051282021
Some advise: Don't follow high-profile people. They usually haven't got anything interesting to spout. -
@dsilverman https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman/116154971051282021
Some advise: Don't follow high-profile people. They usually haven't got anything interesting to spout.@Scubyw Depends on who the high-profile is. Some are quite worth the follow.
But in this case, as I indicated originally, these are accounts that have been mostly abandoned. They're definitely not worth a follow.
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Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
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