Update: A now-deleted comment on this post points out that the name they used actually is a registered sex offender. Yikes.
Original post: Title says it all.
Account has been reported obviously. Linking to a comment instead of his NSFW profile
Two days ago I posted about a bot that is endlessly regenerating and terrorizing subs like Marriage. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/s/6aa9aLRNkP
To my surprise, a couple hours after posting, I suddenly got 20 downvotes, and then 90 downvotes at once. This sub doesn’t even get traffic like that, so it was clearly botted.
This is just speculation, but I wonder if it’s because I dropped the name of a company that these bots eventually go on to spam, and maybe they periodically check for anything negative. Perhaps it could be a gambling company that’s the thing you drive into a vampire’s heart, and it sounds like the thing you’d eat with A1 sauce. Who knows - I can only speculate because a good majority of these bots are going on to stealth spam it in related subs.
I also noticed that there is only ever one of these bots commenting per post in the Marriage sub. They are evenly distributed, which is unlike other bot types I’ve seen.
Lastly, I’d like to update the list of subs these accounts go to:
🤖 VERY common: Marriage, CareerGuidance, ForzaHorizon, BreakUps, MechanicAdvice, Guitar, Monopoly_GO, PcBuildHelp, Christianity, ThailandTourism, NyKnicks, BreakUps, SportsBetting, Gambling, CoinCollecting, and..
Epilepsy. Unfortunately a large percentage of bots seem to have bot epilepsy. (tip: search “brutal”> sort by new to see some bots)
TirzepatideCompound, Semaglutide. A decent number of bots go on to spam providers of this medication, one of them being the place where a ship drops its anchor that starts with “H”. It is also the first word of a tool store followed by Freight. (too paranoid?)
🤖 Kinda common: VeteransBenefits, Hunting, Birding, Duolingo, LanguageLearning, AmericanAirlines, MaleGrooming, Acura, Ford, Unity3D, Nvidia, Intune, 90DayFiance, VRGaming, Motorcycles, Dreams, Powerscales, Ubuntu, Watches, Seiko, 90DayFiance
EDIT: This post just got mass downvoted in a twenty second span. Bots gonna bot.
Original post: Since r/Marriage installed Bot Bouncer, I started looking at the bots that continue to comment there. There is one fucking bot in particular that refuses to die. You’ve probably seen it before. What’s crazy is that there’s 100+ of this bot that appear EVERY DAY in that sub for the FIRST time. They are not slowing down even slightly.
It APPEARS normal and perhaps wouldn’t tip you off right away to being a bot. BUT IT IS!
Examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/5njSwYdg8I
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/MkTUCEn2OV
https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/h3NN6nPBY6
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Characteristics:
🤖 Their bio is typically populated and includes several hobbies to make them sound human: “Construction foreman who collects vintage postcards and argues with strangers on the internet” .. “Brewing beats in my spare time and collecting vintage Digimon cards like they’re ancient artifacts 🔥” .. “ukelele strummer, bacon enthusiast, vintage shirt collector” .. “recovering from questionable life decisions and even worse haircuts”
🤖 A few hours to a few months old
🤖 Subs: Marriage, careerguidance, ForzaHorizon, SPORTSBETTING!, Monopoly_GO, PcBuildHelp, Christianity, ThailandTourism, NyKnicks, BreakUps, VeteransBenefits
🤖 Comments are typically lowercase. Favorite words: fr, tbh, ngl, brutal, valid, solid, lowkey, been there, draining, exhausting, hit(s) hard, hit(s) different, mate, lowkey, resonates, facts, pain, mood, oof, real, real talk, 💀
🤖 They sometimes use misspelled words, like “teh” instead of “the”, or use the wrong they’re/their/there
🤖 They’ve started commenting on 1-2 week old posts to evade detection, as searching for their favorite buzzwords and sorting by new reveals
🤖 They never respond to accounts that reply to their comments. They are one and done
🤖 The BIGGEST tell is that every few comments, they’ll drop a 1-3 word comment that is usually wildly inappropriate for the post. Like someone posted that their wife cheated and asked for advice, and they comment “facts”. Or someone posts about planning their wedding and they comment “big yikes💀🚩”. As a result of downvotes, their karma is bad, sometimes negative.
The bots have sometimes malfunctioned and revealed that they’ve been instructed to comment 1-3 words. Examples:
“this hits hard
wait no that's too long for 1-3 words max
depression maybe”
“this hits deep man
wait no that feels too heavy for just 1-3 words
real”
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What do these bots go on to do? Spam.
Ketro magnesium cream: https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/s/7QGdkWccCx
Streetsmart: https://www.reddit.com/r/BedStuy/s/wBbpg8gviE
Stake. Often they’ll post a screenshot of their bets with a bigass STAKE logo in the pic. Stake has previously paid social media meme accounts to insert their logo into pics/videos so this wouldn’t be unexpected. https://www.reddit.com/r/MMAbetting/s/wU0CDQmZy1
Dovly: https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCapartments/s/GiAPkihpAm
WhisperVibe: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXSex/s/omoRiS3VXB
Just go to r/frenchie and sort by new. Most accounts are one day old or less. One mod who doesn’t seem very active at all.
This appears to have started ramping up two days ago and will only get worse.
I can also exclusively confirm that Clarence the Frenchie DID NOT consent to his glamour shots being used in this manner. Clarence dislikes bots.
For a while now, scammers have been commenting fake customer service phone numbers on posts in airline subs. The phone numbers are typically disguised and on old posts to evade detection. Two examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/s/F1gsT806rL
https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/s/5Uc4MZ84wm
They’re getting more bold though. In this post, we see competing scammers commenting different phone numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/etihad/s/J1XEYjtecL
(It should be noted that many of these accounts are also spamming some shit called Prospeo)
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Anyway, I would like to highlight three scammers:
https://www.reddit.com/u/Cats_Are_Our_Family/s/slEPS5Yb0K
https://www.reddit.com/u/SveinJ/s/25C6HRJ9qR
https://www.reddit.com/u/medfaker/s/vZRcy8mDVs
The last one went above and beyond. They posted a thread about it in the new sub they created, r/unitedflightchange 20 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedflightchange/s/x9CRyjBU9p
Another scammer comments with the same number: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedflightchange/s/ojtE11TVAy
This commenting scammer is egregious. They’ve been around a long time. They posted to their own profile two different scam phone numbers: https://www.reddit.com/u/SveinJ/s/DCMLwprhPU
They’ve also been spamming a scam number in random ass subs like Construction as of four days ago. They are ACTIVE.
Some scam numbers:
̳1̳-̳(̳8̳00)̳-̳2̳5̳9̳-̳1̳7̳05̳
1-(855)-823-15O4
1-800-238-6415
844-5７8-24３8
844•578•2438
844-578-2438
844-817-0255
+1 (855) 711-0277
(844-595-3508)
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A longer list of bitchass scammers:
https://www.reddit.com/u/Hot-Gap279/s/HavMw2LObK
https://www.reddit.com/u/osan9909/s/zOE0CHkmGL
https://www.reddit.com/u/Timely-Ad-2615/s/mypqayhkd0
https://www.reddit.com/u/SadDate9398/s/LsKxrsHXIU
https://www.reddit.com/u/Far_Bad8377/s/8oyKwofdYo
https://www.reddit.com/u/dad_johnny/s/MH22uGHpbZ
https://www.reddit.com/u/CodeEuphoric4326/s/DZQ5UgCip5
https://www.reddit.com/u/Competitive_Ant_7620/s/xaEDnsF3dQ
https://www.reddit.com/u/ayoubuto15/s/ifLytcrB4R
https://www.reddit.com/u/Voluptuousss/s/1v9La7iDho
https://www.reddit.com/u/Moonknight_shank/s/k3Al7VyEdO
This community used to have one (great) mod. However, unless my Reddit is glitching, I can no longer see their account and there’s no current moderator, so there’s no one to message.
I’ve worked in this field for years, I’ve participated in the sub, I have zero products to promote, and I’m interested in actively moderating to prevent the constant spam that tends to crawl into subs like this. I’d hate for the last mod’s diligent efforts at doing so to go to waste. I’m also a moderator for FamilyLaw and FoodPics (mostly to help clean up spam and bots).