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?
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…
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.
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?
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…
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.