Submitted by Ozzya-k-aLethalGlide t3_ycc543 in newhampshire
I’m doing an independent investigation into these comments and the company behind them and am hoping to gather information from the NH community. I’m not sure if this is happening in other states too but I’m sure it is. I’ve tracked down at least one of the company’s involved. Let me know if you have more information about this phenomenon or want to assist in the investigation. Thank you!
I have seen this kind of fake account stuff going rampant across most platforms these days.
With Meta pushing for people to have multiple accounts now and making it easier to do that; its no wonder there are more showing up on their platforms. I have a feeling they are related to some political stuff and will flip to the political gibberish quickly once they have enough band follow-backs. That will give them a platform to post crap and by the time they are caught their rhetoric is already out and its too late.
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I don't have any specific information to help just that this happened in past elections too.
Interesting point, I’ll watch to see if these accounts convert to political accounts, one of the accounts I’m watching has changed their name 3 times in the last couple months so I wouldn’t be surprised if it flips towards a political account like you are hypothesizing
You see the same with those "impossible math problems" that are just badly written middle school problems. They get a lot of engagement then sell the account to another user (often political) to spam whatever message they have.
Godspeed brave investigator. We salute you!
I have seen it under almost every kind of post: food, scenery, social issues... Everything. I have seen a similar thing on a Boston sushi restaurant telling them to promote it on some Boston thing.
Interesting, do you have a link to the Boston sushi restaurant with the promotion account comment? I’m interested to see if these are all connected to one company or if it’s more widespread
It was the Instagram page for Minando. I don't remember how many days ago I saw it. I deleted my Instagram app the other day. I would have had more examples for you if I didn't, I'm sure. If I download it again, I'll come back with links.
I’ll look into it, thank you!
I have a somewhat popular IG account for my business and we get these, they exist for every topic. I was working in the UK a month ago and we would get London IG spam in the comments. It’s all just bots.
A lot of those spam/bot accounts show up and comment when certain hashtags are used. So the “promote it on newhampshire_blahblah” will comment that on everything that uses the hashtag # newhampshire, etc. The industry I work in has the same thing, every time somebody uses industry specific hashtags, the bots show up to comment. Instagram is dying a slow death just like FB did
This is basically it. Not complicated at all. The bots probably run off a script and anytime certain hashtags are used they will auto-reply.
Yup and with foliage season there have been more nh tags then other times of the year.
Indian scammers got new territory to exploit lol
I don’t know if this helps but I’ve seen these comments on literally every kind of post…
I haven't seen this but I have seen a lot of "Chinese women new to the area" reach out to me on...of all places...LinkedIn. They usually get caught as a spam bot and go away quickly. I just find it funny that is now a dating site.
It could be true. I have it on good authority that 6 women within 5 miles want to have no-strings-attached sex with me.
once heard “any sites a dating site if you’re creepy enough” but never thought LinkedIn would qualify
I get so many spam comments on IG. I got tired of deleting them. I’ve made it so only people I follow can comment on my posts.
Absolutely.
penkster t1_itljton wrote
Instagram is a goddamned dumpsterfire. It's completely overrun with bots and scammers. In the last 3 weeks I've had over 1500 new followers - every single one of them is a bot, and dozens of new IM's "Hi there beautiful" - i'm flattered, but i'm ugly as sin, so fuck off.