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.

@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.