AI6YR BenHead's up, the "you must confirm your profile" scam is proliferating on the Fediverse. I wonder if they are trying to gather driver's licenses and credit card numbers? It's a scam.
Michaelcrap. Thanks for the warning.
Pam C@ai6yr Mastodon dot social again. Glad I blocked that instance weeks ago.
Jake 
@ai6yr of course itโs coming from mastodon.social, their moderation sucks
RamenCatholic ๐ข๐@ai6yr confirm your account by sending me $1,000,000 USD.
Kevin RussellHonestly this is evil enough Mastodon
itself should issue regular warnings.๐
Including importantly to new users, ๐
during the setup and joining process.๐
#Mastodon #coders #johnMastodon #joinMastodon #nubie #noobie #privacy #anonymity #trick #hacking
Jenny
Jeri Dansky@ai6yr Yeah, I've suspended two from mastodon.social so far today, and at least two yesterday.
j-r conlinyeah, chasing the code using curl is fun. It's some russian script kiddie running through a swedish bank, which makes me wonder how long they'll be active.
I do kinda wonder how resilient their system is to a few hundred thousand requests of straight garbage, but looks like they're mostly just funneling toward the payment site.
Earthling@ai6yr I figured most people are on the Fediverse because they would never ask for this info.
Frank Hightower ๐@ai6yr ...wtf is gig dot com?
@FrankHghTwr I trimmed the rest of the malware/spam site off there.
๐ด Seph ๐ญ ๐พ@FrankHghTwr @ai6yr Hmmm, looking at it, seems to be.. some kinds of service company, online casinos, AI and more.
Kira 
@ai6yr I have suspend the account already for violating Rule 8 from our server rules
@Kira Apparently there have been a whole series of them on mastodon.social -- hope they have it under control now
Optimistic Moron@ai6yr
Links to gig.com. Totally legit.
Links to gig.com. Totally legit.
Rastal
Paralhax ๐พ
The Vampire Fish Queen
netbat ๐ฎฒ๐ฎณ@ai6yr three item bulleted list with each item starting with an emoji followed by word colon explanation โ
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Navi 
@ai6yr If only Mastodon could do something against this spam on their flagship instances.
Hmmm. Open signups.
Hmmm. No admin-side filtering.
Hmmm. This sucks.
