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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 18:25:28 JST Aral Balkan

   Spam alert: thegx.ca/forum

   Dear server admins,

   If you see an account named thegx.ca/forum pop up on your servers please suspend it. Some bastard has been setting up spam accounts all over. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve blocked and it’s getting annoying.

   #meta #fediverse #mastodon #spam

   • fisco™🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦 (fisco1791@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 19:04:33 JST fisco™🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦

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     @aral I've blocked 7 of these accounts, so far....🤷🏻♂️

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 19:04:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     • fisco™🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦

     @fisco1791 Please also report them if you get a chance so the servers they’re on now and have a chance to suspend them.

   • Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 19:32:21 JST Kathrin

     in reply to

     • Cenobyte :abunhdowohop:

     @cenobyte @aral

     An update:

   • Cenobyte :abunhdowohop: (cenobyte@mastodon.thirring.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 19:32:22 JST Cenobyte :abunhdowohop:

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     • Kathrin

     @Kathrin @aral I've reported this.

   • Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 19:32:23 JST Kathrin

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     @aral

     I did a whois on thegx.ca. Registrar is promopeople.com which has a spam/abuse email. From the nameserver it looks like the website is hosted by hostpapa.com. I'm going to contact both of them about this behaviour, but it would certainly help if others would do the same.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:28:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • thegx.ca/forum

     @thegx How can I put this nicely? Fuck off you fucking spam muppet.

     (Please and thank you.)

   • thegx.ca/forum (thegx@fault.stsecurity.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:28:12 JST thegx.ca/forum

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     @aral
     If you so annoyed at followers why don’t you use your require follow requests button instead of your cancel culture trying to call the fedicops button…?

   • Ryan Wild (wild1145@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:30:28 JST Ryan Wild

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     • MaJ1 ♻️ 👻

     @MaJ1 @aral Thanks for the reminder, just gone through and suspended all the accounts with that name in it, about 80% of them already were remotely suspended but you shouldn't now see any on this site.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:30:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ryan Wild
     • MaJ1 ♻️ 👻

     @wild1145 @MaJ1 Thanks, Ryan :)

   • MaJ1 ♻️ 👻 (maj1@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:30:29 JST MaJ1 ♻️ 👻

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     • Ryan Wild

     @aral they are soooo annoying, am blocking multiple times a day now!
     @wild1145 please can you zap this sucker!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:54:18 JST Aral Balkan

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     Right, well, since the charming person who owns thegx.ca saw it fit to reply so kindly, I’ve gone ahead and reported their domain to both their domain registrar (via email) and to their web host (via chat – “Thank you very much for letting us know about this Aral. I will report it to the appropiate team so we can take care of it”).

     See what being so damn affable gets you?

     Bloody spammers.

   • Jan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (damnitjanet@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 04:04:45 JST Jan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

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     @aral I always knock 'em right in the 'net connection. Most providers are happy to handle taking them down, but I haven't had good luck with domain registrars -- they tend to push back and tell me to go talk to their service provider. Do you have any hints for how to get useful responses from domain registrars?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 04:04:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

     @damnitjanet No idea. This is the first time I’ve tried it. Will let you know how it goes :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 05:05:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • holger

     @holger Haha, nice :)

   • holger@muenchen.social's status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 05:05:26 JST holger

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     @aral ... I might have written a little stupid bot that can be triggered by cron or whatever. It blocks and reports those accounts as soon as they follow you → https://gist.github.com/ho1ger/ab1beb1b274be6aae717efd2c5f4a158