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.
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.
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:
Thanks for investigating this, I’ll refer other mods to this thread for discussion as well.
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?
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.
It is back again doing the same thing. https://kerala.party/u/AlbinJose008@sopuli.xyz
Nice catch! I’ve sent a pm to the admin @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
This looks pretty sus. That person will be banned.