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   Clifton Royston (cliftonr@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:45:55 JST Clifton Royston

   • Kevin Beaumont

   I think somehow that choosing @GossiTheDog
   as one of your initial test cases for a 419 spam could be seen as a poor choice.

   But regardless of what's coming to that poor sucker, I reported him anyway.

   At this point we all need to put some heavy pressure on mastodon.social.

   Spam is ramping up and almost 100% of what I see is coming from there. If I personally block it, however, I'll lose a number of people I am following and really value.

   This really is the Usenet spam story all over again.

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     Clifton Royston (cliftonr@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 04:53:02 JST Clifton Royston

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog

     It was just some loser replying to a couple of your posts with a boilerplate request for *somebody* to help him move some funds out of this great big trust account he can't access...

     I happened to notice it when I hit the "Report this as spam" on someone else he replied to.

     I thought it was pretty funny who he'd pick as his potential sucker.