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What's up with all those spam bots lately in the youtube comment section? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For a few months now, these bot comments seem to be appearing more and more frequently. Always with a profile picture of a model making innuendos, accompanied by a generic comment praising the video and practically always adding some kind of emoji. Is this some new scam or is it just the current generation of spambots as per usual?

Not that I'm particularly interested in the YouTube comments, but I occasionally check them out and noticed this.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The same crap is going around Instagram and other social media pages. Often when you check out the profiles, they have some link obscured via url shortener that resolves to some random porn site or flat out scam page.

They try to comment first to get upvotes I guess.

[–] CaptainBlagbird 13 points 3 months ago

They usually have bot accounts to upvote themselves. On reddit there were a lot of dropship scam bots, on other social media other shady stuff as you said.