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Curious case of @Albin9325 (kerala.party)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by A10@kerala.party to c/meta@kerala.party

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~~@Albin9325@kerala.party What happened to your posts, everything you posted shows up as deleted. Account deleted~~ ?

Edit: Yes, Albinxxxx is a troll/spammer. It will create an account in an instance and start spamming and eventually delete the account. Report, ban if you find this spammer in your instance or community.

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[–] Five 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The suspiciously similar account https://suppo.fi/u/Albin7326 is operating simultaneously with the same behaviour: posting in remote instances, and then deleting their posts and comments.

For example, both of these posts were made 2 days ago, and then quickly deleted by the poster:

https://slrpnk.net/post/3099065 - from the comments, it looks like an advertisement for a suspicious and possibly trojan'd android app disguised as an askLemmy question from Albin9325
https://slrpnk.net/post/3074818 - from the comments, it looks like an advertisement for a VPN disguised as news from Albin7326

Thanks for investigating this, I'll refer other mods to this thread for discussion as well.

[–] poVoq 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they hope that this gets federated out to instances that don't honour the deleted flag?

Or these posts are still visible to site scrapers like the Google bot and this could effect page rank on search engines?

[–] Five 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They keep the posts public long enough to get comments. I think they're testing the waters for Reddit spam potential. They've got a couple of posts that got 300+ upvotes that I think were harmless meme posts to establish credibility before they started phishing.

Google does crawl Lemmy though. It could be a page rank thing also.

[–] A10@kerala.party 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is back again doing the same thing. https://kerala.party/u/AlbinJose008@sopuli.xyz

[–] Five 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice catch! I've sent a pm to the admin @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This looks pretty sus. That person will be banned.

[–] A10@kerala.party 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the notice!!. BTW I can't open these links

[–] Five 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I should have thought of that. Here's a screenshot:

https://slrpnk.net/post/3099065 - from the comments, it looks like an advertisement for a suspicious and possibly trojan’d android app disguised as an askLemmy question from Albin9325

As an admin, you should be able to see Albin9325's deleted posts locally, and find where the post is federated on your plaltform. Sorry I can't link you directly, I can't see Alibin9325's posts local to you either.

[–] A10@kerala.party 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I see 🙆‍♂️ 😁

[–] Five 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, I have a version of that list too 😅

If you click on the article link, you can still see the comments that other users made, and kind of work back from that what the article was about.

[–] A10@kerala.party 2 points 1 year ago

@rikudou@lemmings.world Hi, just a heads up, a user of your instance is a suspected spammer @Alby003@lemmings.world . see this thread for details

[–] Five 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mrmanager@lemmy.today - Albin is using your instance. Check out this post for more information