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i received another message yesterday, after my instance's admin claimed they fixed the issue (i assume my blocking the spammer's ip address from making new accounts)
the problem with this spam and generally federated platforms is that you can only really try detecting it based on the content. the accounts tend to get created on another instance and then the messages federate over to you, which means you won't see a lot of the identifying information you'd see for a local user, such as their IP address.
IP bans arenβt great either. A decent spammer will just use a vpn. Then youβre just banning IPs from a service that other users might also use. An even more sophisticated bad actor would just use a bot net.
I just chalked it up to "a necessary evil" in order to take advantage of federated platforms. I found it funny at first, and then just ignored it. I never thought that it could've been some smear campaign, but rather scammers looking for easy targets.
I'm glad mods are doing something about it, even if it's not a perfect fix.