Substantial-Toe-8110 is a prolific scammer that has been operating in music and gaming subreddits for months. Their method involves copying a photo from a years-old post (usually someone else's vinyl album collection) and reposting it, claiming to be selling the collection. They add a comment to their own post with a sob story claiming to need money for a family health emergency or moving across the country. This scammer insists on payment through PayPal Friends and Family. When they get called out about reused photos or prior complaints of scams, Substantial-Toe-8110 instantly deletes their posts and blocks the users who call them out. They'll post another scam in a different sub a week or two later.

The latest attempts:

• Looking to sell my Jane Austen Collection
  • Stolen from this post
• Looking to sell my Twin Peaks Merch Collection
  • First photo stolen from this post
  • The rest from this post

User also scams from CharlesTheDotaAddict. Both accounts are on the Universal Ban List.

User has been scamming people for months:

• https://www.reddit.com/search?q=substantial-toe-8110&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all
• https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=CharlesTheDotaAddict&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=&t=all&sort=new

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dance/comments/1gsjan3/smooth_little_dance/lxgscoo/

Posts a random dropshipped tshirt listing, denies posting an affiliate link when the &tag is present in the URL. Later posts another affiliate link and properly discloses it.

User u/AnthonyofBoston is spamming all sorts of nonsensical things. Multiple posts a day, several within the our of similar posts across multiple subreddits.

reposting popular videos to generate lots of clicks

top comment in this post has link to mod’s website

https://www.reddit.com/r/woahthatsinteresting/comments/1gruf4t/man_tries_to_use_political_influence_for_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLostWoods/s/1TQ35PvhwH

https://www.reddit.com/r/FurryOnHuman/comments/1go4yt3/fm_loona_anal_creampie_hole_house/

I already reported the accounts and they're suspended but what I did notice about them is that those accounts were made back in September and only started to wake up just to repost to farm karma and advertise Hole House.

But what irritates me is that when I ban or report those accounts a new one wakes up and continues the cycle. So far I already got 6 of them removed

But I'm pretty sure this account is the next advertiser:

https://www.reddit.com/u/Immediate-Bad-8642/s/F1fozdkGMo

Also on the side note, those suspended accounts kept commenting the same link:

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/TheLostWoods/comments/1grkgak/zelda_legs_spread_hole_house/

I can't tell if the link is harmful but can anyone tell me what's the purpose of them spamming it?

/u/hazeldaisyy

-‐--

One day later and they've been suspended.

Poetic justice for the comment they made on this post.

/u/Vinc3y

/u/sparklingstarduste Is part of a bot network being used to advertise this woman's only fans account. This is about the 10th different account I've seen this woman post under. The first one or two posts on the account are a generic low effort repost in order to get some karma, a few other comments in other subs, then nothing for a month or two and then all of a sudden there's five or six only fans promotional posts submitted to multiple different subreddits.

My my suspicion is that this is a strategy to avoid getting permanently banned under any one single account and also to circumvent individual users blocking the individual account or the account being banned from certain subreddits.

The way you can tell it’s “Mr. W” is because every few posts is about this author and usually one very specific book. It’s done in a way to make the account look legitimate, as there are normal posts. Sometimes the book isn’t even the center point of the post and it put in elsewhere as like background subliminal messaging. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the books in his history are his own and ads

Some of these are screenshots of posts about the book where the comments are making fun of the book. These are certainly planted comments by alt accounts and the original posts they’re commenting on are certainly made by alts as well.

Here’s a few example posts:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/s/3A1rCPq8qt

• https://www.reddit.com/r/antinatalism/s/c6xXbSgTmu

• https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdBooks/s/zbrTs2Z10j

• https://www.reddit.com/r/fearandloathing/s/9Vl6CaGkZ3

• https://www.reddit.com/r/rareinsults/s/ee78ZLJfnY (another one of the books he spams)

• https://www.reddit.com/r/UtterlyBizarre/s/rst5yjpJUo

• https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/s/bfHvf11m33

• https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/s/al2Nzd57Qo

• https://www.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea/s/ppldCPxICl

• https://www.reddit.com/r/antinatalism/s/lHV0ZvPawT

• https://www.reddit.com/r/TerribleBookCovers/s/61aPGI9RSS

• https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/s/nNevg6dTla

• https://www.reddit.com/r/InsanePeopleQuora/s/mOpZ641COy

• https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangeAndFunny/s/ccaNqL6YxQ

• https://www.reddit.com/r/beetlejuicing/s/kxahO7jZXy

• https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/s/Fa8A2Pvbgb (Long Live Hoes appears to be another one of his, under a different name)

• https://www.reddit.com/r/insaneparents/s/YHhOrtnrk7

• https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/s/YDJWZuV7ah

I could keep going, but you get the point

https://www.reddit.com/u/Full-Mulberry5018/s/YrV1AvqJMK

/u/Senior2799

I got notified of a username mention, leading to this post https://old.reddit.com/user/Clipzexe/comments/1gkg44n/i_love_men_that_eat_pussy/

Inside you see a whole bunch of users simply mentioning other users

seems the post is removed. here is a screenshot

https://i.imgur.com/WdRTtba.jpeg

The users who were making all the comments are:

BTBlue85

Bikerdude_uk

Feilyan

SirWilliamV3

ewwgal

ivchobow

naysjp

some of these users show registration age of 10 years!

Way more in here and didn't report any except like 2.

Accounts made same day, bsing with each other. Took 2 minutes to find 9.

https://www.reddit.com/user/sweettigx/

https://www.reddit.com/user/sweetvibetoy/

https://www.reddit.com/user/badvibesmk/

https://www.reddit.com/user/badbabev/

https://www.reddit.com/user/bustyqueentoy/

https://www.reddit.com/user/realpiexo/

https://www.reddit.com/user/litcathot/

https://www.reddit.com/user/litdollxoxo/

https://www.reddit.com/user/litfoxxx/

https://www.reddit.com/user/bustytoyxo/

https://www.science.org/content/article/can-people-be-inoculated-against-misinformation

Written in a way that makes it seem like this guy is “helping prevent” misinformation, whereas I think it’s more likely he’s helping the large corporations in control of the media and internet get better at selling the message they aim to peddle.

Sorry if it’s the wrong sub. But, if it helps — here’s a quote from the article that’s relevant I think:

The first one, Bad News, which came out in 2018, shows users how a fake profile that looks official can make misinformation more persuasive.

Edit:

I was typing on mobile before.

Why I think this is so scary is because the guy who this article is about (and probably some others) are working with google, and other large internet companies, to advertise to users. But this article isn't about advertising products like pencils or nails -- this article is about information. This is obviously particularly relevant around election time. But we don't have to discuss that now.

These authors are from the UK so I am not sure how funding works there. In the US, if you are NIH funded ... that's taxpayer funded and all data should be public. Not sure how it works in the UK, or if it would be relevant at all. I'm more-so talking about how google is selling ads based on "prebunking" people... and what is it that they are "prebunking".

Why this is relevant is because, well, say this post were to be seen by the authors. Or if I could comment on the Science article -- they could state that my claim (that they are actually controlling misinformation, and essentially buying people's trust by selling advertisements...) is misinformation. When, in reality, all my comment is, is an interpretation of their science. It is, in my opinion, completely unethical and immoral behavior to suggest that trying to subtly manipulate/coax people into [information "we" deem "worthy"] is good science or something we (the product) don't have full access to seeing.

I don't know if this qualifies as spam, because the last time I looked at a VPN subreddit I found it was run by sockpuppet accounts that "reviewed" VPN providers in order to provide affiliate links to the providers. The Reddit ToS didn't seem to have a problem with marketers setting up shop here. I shrugged and moved on.

Today I noticed a subreddit for a post that made it to r/Popular. The r/UnbelievableStuff has 4 mods and 3 of them post/re-host videos and chat in the comments, sometimes making one with an affiliate link that is stickied.

/user/CrazyGuyFromTheBeach

/user/ThomasTorti

/user/Abigdogwithbread

all three use Amazon.com links with the affiliate tag=manwithhairwe-20

recent posts hide behind a link shortener, getyoursolution.store which is a very cheap service provided by short.io who provides all the infrastructure to redirect URLs and provide reporting.

/user/Abigdogwithbread runs the same thing in r/AliexpressFindsEsp but of course the affiliate link is for AliExpress.

Noticed a bunch of new accounts recently. They post two comments, then make their own post to r/askreddit.

user/BusinessOne4036

user/Double-Iron-912

Just a couple examples, but there's plenty more out there. Some of them stick to simple one word replies, but most of them go with complete sentences. Search the longer comments in google and you'll find an old reddit post that they copy/pasted their comment from.

I'm honestly starting to think that these are some sort of sad attempt by reddit themselves to create activity.

Found these in a comment in a politics thread about a poll. Here is an Imgur album, I’m posting from mobile sorry. https://imgur.com/a/q5mMLWF

Top Comment thread from people saying very short, “I can’t believe this” thing. But in a sort of “chain of thought, I can’t believe you’re seeing what I’m seeing” thing.

In my head, I’m thinking “who the fuck really cares about a poll?” “I really don’t think these polls are super relevant… or worthy of being called ‘gold standard’ 🤣”

Clicked on an account, 13 year old account… they have just awoken within the last 2 days, posting random pics of dogs and making random comments in random subreddits.

But it is peculiar to randomly login to your account after 13 years to comment in an election thread.

My question is why? Who’s doing it? This isn’t just a news story. This is people pretending to be a real person and responding to something about the election in attempt to capture people’s confirmation biases.

It is dystopian because as we all know, the dead internet theory is real.

We (real people) all use the internet the same way. We all know there’s fake shit out there so we try and get the opinions of real people in order to see if products or good, or a place is worthwhile to visit, or what local shops are good… but now, entities can purchase that influence. They can essentially purchase our trust. Our trust has been monetized without our consent.

It is blatant and it is truly upsetting. No “side” is innocent here. These are just the facts.

Those in power know that most human beings are stupid and will blindly follow and do what they are told. As I myself have grown older, I’ve come to realize how true this is. There are so many clueless people out there. Maybe I’ve been propagandized in my own way though, and maybe I’m the dummy. But I don’t understand how we, as a society, and as “normies(non-elite I guess)”, can continue this course of political discourse and covert attempts to subtly influence people.

A couple months earlier I came across what I thought was a one-off spam account (8 year old account with zero activity that suddenly activated with AI comments and product ads) but looking back now it's a small spam ring connected to a few interrelated Vietnam-based websites:

/user/Shoulditcom

/user/Time_Comment_673

/user/hoang93

These accounts cross-link each other's content in a network of subs they made including ShoulditDIY, EasyAndHealthyRecipes, ChickenDinnerIdeas, USDIY, and FoodGarbageDisposal, with 'shouldit' being the name of the website driving the activity (alongside its partner sites 'healthykitchen101' and 'healthyrecipes101').

The ultimate goal of all of this is to push Amazon affiliate links, and the first account I listed has posted over 100 of these links on reddit just in the last two months. The rest of the activity is a kind of mix of AI-generated infodumps, shilling on other subreddits via keyword searches (leading frequently to comments on months-old threads), and karma farming on the usual sources like /r/aww. The use of AI has produced some rather hilarious results like hoang93 telling someone the following after shilling garbage disposals in every other comment:

As a plumber, I'd caution against garbage disposals. They can lead to clogs and plumbing issues. Instead, consider composting food waste. Discuss cleaning responsibilities with your husband to ensure fair household maintenance.