[aur-general] spam account report
Hey all, Yet another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/annajohnsn/comments Strangely their account was around for 3 months before spamming? seems odd... Thanks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 11:27:32PM +0000, Joel Shapiro via aur-general wrote:
Hey all,
Yet another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/annajohnsn/comments
Banned
Strangely their account was around for 3 months before spamming? seems odd...
I wonder if these are online-cracked accounts... Thanks for reporting. -Santiago
On 31/7/19 9:43 am, Santiago Torres-Arias via aur-general wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 11:27:32PM +0000, Joel Shapiro via aur-general wrote:
Hey all,
Yet another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/annajohnsn/comments
Banned
Strangely their account was around for 3 months before spamming? seems odd...
I wonder if these are online-cracked accounts...
Thanks for reporting. -Santiago
In my experience it's not uncommon for spam accounts to sit dormant for a while before posting. I don't know why though!
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 08:51, Rylie James Thomas < contact@ryliejamesthomas.net> wrote:
Yet another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/annajohnsn/comments
how do we determine that an account is spam or not?
I mean this one was really obvious:
"Thanks for sharing this piece of data. $scraped_webpage_description. This $scam_link article on the $page_title is really informational. Thanks for sharing it. The details are explained very well."
IMO there should be a better format for reporting accounts as bots seeing as a huge portion of this mailing list is just spam reporting, but w/e.
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Yet another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/annajohnsn/comments
how do we determine that an account is spam or not? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Thanks for sharing this piece of data. $scraped_webpage_description. This $scam_link article on the $page_title is really informational. Thanks for sharing it. The details are explained very well."
Yeah, exactly. Thanks for reversing the template, I had a chuckle.
IMO there should be a better format for reporting accounts as bots seeing as a huge portion of this mailing list is just spam reporting, but w/e.
Rest assured this is an ongoing conversation within the team, and we are working towards a better way to minimize spam and provide abuse-resistant spam reporting facilities for users :). Cheers! -Santiago.
participants (4)
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Joel Shapiro
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Ram Kumar
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Rylie James Thomas
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Santiago Torres-Arias