@ai6yr Oh, yes. "Hi my name is Nicole from Toronto and I'm making identical accounts everywhere."
#spamming

@DeltaWye @SynAck @Kuniti_shino @ErikUden OFC that's the nature of most services tht are open t new users.

• #Abuse being a statistical inevitability:

#Shitter (rather #Teitter before #Mus ruined it!) had #API #RateLimiting to make #Spamming less effective (255 Statuses per 24hrs) even back when #TweetDeck was a seperate company...

• Making dynamical limits that instantly lockout i.e. brand new accounts sending the same.message to 10+ others as a DM within 48 hours of registration should act as a speed-bump to #Spammers.

It won't prevent it entirely but make it more cumbersome.

• Sadly #Mastodon #Developers refuse to acknowledge the need for efficient filtering.and ban list managment that every other web-facing application / system can do using blocklist feeds.

This prevents remediation and correction of #banlists & #blocklists, leaving a lot if domains burned forever as the only.options are "replace" and "merge" and the average #ActivityPub admin or even #User isn't going to learn or setup a #git!

• which is frustrating as I maintain multiple blocklists to help cleaning up the mess.

I.e. there isn't really a good way to combat #Typosquatting-based #Phishing beyond banning.offending domains...

@standingpad personally, I just add all the #Spammers to my blocklist, report them for #Spamming at their #Hoster|s, #ISP|s and #Rdgistrar|s and sent them angry cease-and-decist demanding them to delete all data they ever acquired about me and ban them from ever contacting me again or visiting any of my sites or social media profiles & posts!

• Works like a charm!!!

@eff @TheGuardian The Problem is the #LackOfAccountability and #LackOfConsequences are the problem.

• The facts are that #Spamming aka. #ColdMailing is not a #felony in the #USA.

• Big #Hosters and #Registrars like #GoDaddy, #NameCheap and #CloudFlare are not just accidentially complicit by stochastic fact that they are Oligopolists in #Hosting and #Domains, but

• also actively working against anyone who wants to report #Abuse of their #Services for #illicit and #banned use-cases.

• This starts with refusal to process #AbuseReports to literally #doxxing any report to their #clients...

#AskMeHowIKnow...

@GrapheneOS @signalapp TBH, I think that "#AntiSpam" is a bad excuse, because it penalizes honest users and enables abusers who have entire number blocks to spare...

• Furthermore it also allows LEAs to track who is a Signal user, and in sple places (i.e. Belgium) using @torproject / #Tor and #VPN|s is enough to get a warrant for #wuretapping signed, so it only adds #cost to onboard and no benefit to the #users.

• They could've chosen different approaches to combatting #Spam, ranging from #Invites to a slowly growing #trust-level system that makes #Spamming costly, slow and unfeasible on the platform.

Sadly, I'm not being paid to fix this and thus I'm not allowed to fix it at all...

@oldperl @bfdi +1

Wäre mal toll wenn die #JuraBubble sich zu #Spamming mal äußern würde...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112485719638826258

@oldperl IMHO gehört #Spamming strafbewehrt.

Wäre toll wenn @Bundesverband und/oder @noybeu und/oder andere dazu mal Präzedenzfälle und Urteile schaffen...

Gern auch gegenüber #Spammern aus den nicht-EU - Ausland!

@stratosphere : it does not work, therefore it is misleading - just making things worse.

https://www.shouldiclick.org/?https%3A%2F%2Fbu-nq-regelen-nl.com%2F

says:
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Submitted URL: https://bu-nq-regelen-nl.com/
Effective URL: https://www.google.com/

You can click!
——
Bunq is a Dutch bank. If you click the link from a Dutch IP adress, your browser is *NOT* redirected to Google.

Check https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/bu-nq-regelen-nl.com/summary
and, in particular, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/91.215.85.79/relations (#91.215.85.79 : 12/90)

Please stop spamming us a DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING service.

@Haste I'm just glad @BNetzA does disconnect #Spamcalls and #SMS-#Spamming numbers within minutes of reporting them, because unsolicited calls and #Spam to individuals are at best a misdemeanour if not felony here...

Not that there isn't already a whole #industry of #Scammers doing "shock calls" to scam seniors of their money pretending to be relatives in dire need...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94RpvSYxDg