Interestingly there is a reddit user named Korvin-lin-sognar, who posts lots of pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine, pro-Trump, etc. you name it content on reddit and twitter.
Just saying if I was a Russian foreign agent (or troll) trying to use bots to fish and setup a troll farm on lemmy/Fediverse, I’d probably look a like like this netizen.
Edit: I’ve now been messaged by the sognar account as well as the original missy29. Interesting that the message has changed to include links now. Did anyone else get contacted by sognar?
I did, and it’s still there. I isolated the png because it was obviously a suspicious message and realized what they were doing, and wasn’t sure if viewing anything without caution might be a problem.
I’ve had a few messages in the past, general greetings out of the blue, but not with this much “bait”. I still haven’t figured out how to delete a PM in Mbin (there are no options anywhere that I see), so there they sit.
My first message from missy also had links, didn’t think to screenshot it, definitely did not click on them, but I think they at least looked the same…
Even weirder, a user named “sognar” was posting their picture as a comment.
Seemed odd to me… Comment is removed now.
https://aggregatet.org/u/sognar
Probably the bot owner setting it up and doing a test post?
Created the same day so seems likely.
Also, the spammer linked above is now banned.
Interestingly there is a reddit user named Korvin-lin-sognar, who posts lots of pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine, pro-Trump, etc. you name it content on reddit and twitter.
They are also in IT with strong webdev skills, and possibly have an exemption from conscription for working more than a year in a Russian IT company(or are angry it doesn’t apply to them?)
Just saying if I was a Russian foreign agent (or troll) trying to use bots to fish and setup a troll farm on lemmy/Fediverse, I’d probably look a like like this netizen.
Edit: I’ve now been messaged by the sognar account as well as the original missy29. Interesting that the message has changed to include links now. Did anyone else get contacted by sognar?
I did, and it’s still there. I isolated the png because it was obviously a suspicious message and realized what they were doing, and wasn’t sure if viewing anything without caution might be a problem.
I’ve had a few messages in the past, general greetings out of the blue, but not with this much “bait”. I still haven’t figured out how to delete a PM in Mbin (there are no options anywhere that I see), so there they sit.
Yep!
Here’s round two for me:
My first message from missy also had links, didn’t think to screenshot it, definitely did not click on them, but I think they at least looked the same…
Oh so that’s why, I reverse searched the image earlier and it linked to that post. Looks like there is another image on that profile now