There is some Japanese spam that we are being affected with. Some of you might have noticed.
I have set up automated removal for it. Please report if you see a spam post that is 2 minutes old or more.
We are not sure what the point of this spam is but if it is anything like the last time it is probably an outcome of a fight somewhere in the Japanese fediverse. Not sure over what though.
this happened before?
Something like this yeah. I can’t read Japanese so not 100% certain.
I would offer to help sourcing/translating it if needed, I am in Japan, but ultimately doubt it matters much if it is just random spam. Just sounds like random right-wing Japanese twitter folks.
Japanese right-wing found us?
Nah, that would involve them engaging with non-Japanese. They basically sequester themselves to black vans driving around and Twitter. Lots of Twitter.
No. They have a bot which first makes accounts on random fediverse microblogging platformsz then they spam posts where they tag a random small subset from a very large list of fediverse accounts known to them. Lemmy communities appear as users on these platforms, so whenever they tag an account of our community we see their post here. It is pretty bizarre really.
It’s bizarre because they’ve hit a lot of super small niche ones too that don’t even have connection
Seems to have taken over that website? They keep sending out apologies about the spam.
Yeah have a go at it.
Title: はじめまして！私は犯罪者のみどくり(のなめ)こと鈴木哲哉(すずきてつや)です！
Body: はじめまして！私は犯罪者のみどくり(のなめ)こと鈴木哲哉(すずきてつや)です！ 趣味は様々なサイトに核を飛ばすことです！
#鈴木哲哉 #みどくり #DMCA #唐澤貴洋 #AS215935
https://krsw-wiki.org/wiki/唐澤貴洋Wiki:チラシの裏/荒らし連合軍#みどくり https://midokuriserver.github.io/minidon/
Yeah it’s pretty much garbage
It’s not even trying to get you to do anything. Just phrased as a bizarre self introduction about how much he likes nuking places. A lot of scams here are phrased in that exact way “Hi, I am name! My hobbies are…”. I used to get about ten text messages like that a day.
Not really sure what the goal of this particular one is. I am not aware of anyone with that name even they’re trying to target.
It is a fight between two somethings (people, groups, etc.). This post is impersonating someone and trying to make them look bad.