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.
not sure if its related but for some reason when i click on a reply to one of my comments the url is taking me to a random post or telling me its not a real post? maybe deleteing stuff en masse is messing with the urls? or is it just me.
Which comment?
all of them including this one lol. I click the button to go to this comment and it gives me a 400 post doesnt exist error.
It’s probably unrelated. The removals I am doing can be seen here: https://lemmygrad.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan (with the reason “spam”.) I am just banning the accounts making the spam post and banning them and removing their posts. That shouldn’t cause what you are seeing.
If I try to go to my comment following this link I can view it fine: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5900707/5253336
Are you using the web interface?
ya im using the phtn.app interface
like this is what i see when i try to click to go to this comment from my inbox. i have to manually navigate to it to pull it up.
Might be a problem with client but I would need more info to debug.
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?
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.
Nah, that would involve them engaging with non-Japanese. They basically sequester themselves to black vans driving around and Twitter. Lots of Twitter.
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 sometimes (people, groups, etc.). This post is impersonating someone and trying to make them look bad.
