Repo Men: Spam Attack
Mar. 1st, 2010 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteDay 3 of the Repo Men hunt saw an influx of spam on the #repomen channel on Twitter, with known spammers (auto-bots) likely trying to protect the whereabouts of #repowill (Will La Ferriere), who went on-grid after he failed to complete a task for Groundswell, Inc. He was last known to be in Nashville, IL traveling at 39 MPH (likely in a car). His most recent purchase was for an Amtrak ticket, but no Amtrak stations are within walking distance of his location on Mission Rd. near the South Side Sports Bar. However, there are several within a short drive's distance.
Because it was a $121 credit purchase, it's possible he actually made the purchase a few days ago, but that doesn't mean the ticket couldn't have been used for a trip today.
The (currently) known spammer/bot list:
@Travocsky
@MarcelisWallis1
@Uniquiocity
@SmokerMirrer
@smokeNmirrorz
@Toga_Bot (possibly unrelated, but it picked up on the use of TOGA! in some of the spam tweets and kept the cycle going)
@speedstersmith
These bots will respond in a flood to any Tweets with the #repomen or #repowill hashtag, usually with links to the Repo Men trailer on YouTube or another YT link (that is dead/incorrectly written), or a lot of gibberish or repetitive words.
As many of these bots have been reported for spam and blocked as possible; please continue to do so to help keep the #repomen channel clean. I've also communicated with @TheUnionCares to assist in this issue, if it's possible.
I've created a private List containing all these spammers, but I'd be happy to make it public if it would help in any way.
More coming soon.
Because it was a $121 credit purchase, it's possible he actually made the purchase a few days ago, but that doesn't mean the ticket couldn't have been used for a trip today.
The (currently) known spammer/bot list:
@Travocsky
@MarcelisWallis1
@Uniquiocity
@SmokerMirrer
@smokeNmirrorz
@Toga_Bot (possibly unrelated, but it picked up on the use of TOGA! in some of the spam tweets and kept the cycle going)
@speedstersmith
These bots will respond in a flood to any Tweets with the #repomen or #repowill hashtag, usually with links to the Repo Men trailer on YouTube or another YT link (that is dead/incorrectly written), or a lot of gibberish or repetitive words.
As many of these bots have been reported for spam and blocked as possible; please continue to do so to help keep the #repomen channel clean. I've also communicated with @TheUnionCares to assist in this issue, if it's possible.
I've created a private List containing all these spammers, but I'd be happy to make it public if it would help in any way.
More coming soon.
