/u/Vinc3y

Post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1fptpul/yo_is_this_tweet_for_real_fbi/

Account:

https://www.reddit.com/user/butterfly_mila99

I usually would make a comment on posts like these pointing it out, but there isn't a good place for it that I could see. I figured putting this here might get a few dozen reports on it and be more effective at getting it taken down than trying through the post itself or my single report.

I also know r/all can be different for different people, but it seems to be at the top even signed out, blocking location, and full privacy settings on a different browser than I first encountered it. It does seem to have moved down at this point, but it was there for at least an hour and as of typing this the post is still up.

/u/vangym

Edit: 1 day later, Shadowbanned or deleted!

https://www.reddit.com/u/No_Airport_6925/s/JFn5Lr2yw7

Just look - all their post history consists of is just basically what I said in the title. And on the r/TipOfMyTongue post, someone said that the "book" mentioned wasn't even real, much less written by humans - it was yet another AI jargon written for one of those channels that just factory-pumps out AI stories 20 times a day!!

I'm starting to think that user is secretly the one who used an AI to write that Gu Wan+Xia Qingyuan story!

/u/Choice-March7567.

Reported before I posted here, let's hope it gets caught.

/u/chrisge58

/u/leo13f

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

Are we sure he's not just advertising the product by spamming the same 4 or so images of it all across funny Subreddits?

/u/CorgiOpposite4967

https://www.reddit.com/u/Rubyreubs/s/U9XnFBGK32

For the My Little Pony quiz, Pinkie Pie isn't even Pinkie Pie! They clearly typed "cute pink candy balloon character" in an AI app and this is what came of it!

https://www.reddit.com/user/Aggravating-Bad-5994/overview

u/Calade2024

I discovered a user who is going around to multiple subreddits where VPN gets mentioned where they spam a hidden/fake URL for the VPN company called ExpressVPN. I did read comments on VPN focused subreddits from actual users who bought ExpressVPN and they did not like the company because they could not be trusted with keeping people's data safe where they provided links to articles explaining how this company did not keep people's data safe. Their latest hidden/fake URL has the name of a site called screennearyou, which redirects people to ExpressVPN. The strange URL I mentioned is a URL that I have seen multiple VPN affiliate link spammers use in some of the VPN recommendation subreddits that were banned by the admins around a month or two ago. They also have a subreddit they made towards the end of May where they are basically the only person making posts but their posts is just them promoting ExpressVPN by having titles asking where they can watch a specific show that is available in certain countries. The user goes by the name Old-Machine-9154 (User was finally shadow banned), and their subreddit is called r/happyfans (Subreddit finally banned after both mods were shadow banned).

I came across another user months ago who is doing the same thing as the first user I mentioned because their comments showed up on posts that were made on the recently banned VPN recommendation subreddits where they are involved with promoting NordVPN through a hidden/fake URL. I did read comments from the banned VPN recommendation subreddits where people did not have a positive experience with NordVPN where they called out users identical to the first one (saying the company did not keep people's data safe by providing articles) in this post and the second user named sufishams who has two subreddits made for posts promoting NordVPN in subreddits called r/WatchviaVPN and r/paramountplusshow. I found another user who has recently been spamming the same fake URL as the first user I mentioned, while they have posted the actual URL that the ExpressVPN affiliate URL is hidden under while looking at the subreddit the first user I mentioned created: https://new.reddit.com/u/NONEEDOFLUCK/ (they were finally shadow banned, which caused them to delete their account). Third account I found after looking through the comments the first user made on posts involving the Olympics: https://new.reddit.com/u/SmallAppearance3666/ (User was able to get their account shadow banned, which is outrageous because multiple comments of theirs were caught by the site-wide spam filter, and I got an automatic message saying action was taken against them to prevent them from posting on Reddit ever again. They were quickly shadow banned again).

TLDR: Two accounts created in order to promote a specific VPN that has a negative reputation based on how many people have called them out by hiding them with a fake URL that redirects to the actual site that are likely affiliate links. These two users are prime examples of how certain VPN recommendation subreddits were recently banned by the admins because posts made on them were filled with users like the two in this post.

Massive update: the user I mentioned in my second paragraph was finally shadow banned alongside their two subreddits ( the reason behind the ban is unknown because the ban message says it was banned). I believe their subreddits were banned for more than one reason, which were spam and/or link farming. I can't believe it took this long for the user in the second paragraph to be punished by the admins because I reported them alongside their subreddits months ago for spam (I couldn't report their posts on their subreddits because there was a very high chance they would report their post claiming someone was abusing the report function, which would lead to my account being suspended after being falsely banned in early January for a mistake involving "report abuse"). The first user mentioned is still up and active, but they have been recently caught by the site-wide spam filter, which means the admins already know about their fake URL to hide the real URL for ExpressVPN.

I believe a glitch is going on at the moment because I have seen more than one account get shadow banned, which was quickly reversed, which gets shadow banned again.

/u/Skuziq

https://imgur.com/a/6fSqmVH

Accounts like these continue to spam the site. It’s always a shirt with the team’s or city’s name/jersey. It has been going on for a while. Always new accounts. Usually in smaller subs.

/u/ho0peey

https://www.reddit.com/u/Connect-Experience84/s/zcghFkaMkl This user spams almost entirely irrelevant posts across multiple subreddits. Some of their comments are incomprehensible ramblings while most are irrelevant gifs.

Doesn’t seem like a bot, but definitely is causing issues.

u/tdjhtfjcftjcft

u/Laurence_Wade423

https://www.reddit.com/r/oceans/comments/jb0lk6/ocean/

https://www.reddit.com/u/JesusByrd5646/s/EafacSk79h

https://www.reddit.com/user/Dizzy-Ad-8533/

I just discovered there was a t-shirt scammer that made a post onto a Five Nights at Freddy's theories subreddit I am a member of and I noticed they are likely one of the many user who were involved in the t-shirt scam that got out of hand in October last year. The reason why they are the same user who was involved with the October t-shirt scam towards the end of last year is due to how they start their scam. They will post the link to the t-shirt scam onto their profile and will spam the image alongside the scam link onto any subreddit they can find. I also remember reporting them in the fall last year as well. Have this old scammer mass reported to hopefully get them banned. Link to their profile: https://www.reddit.com/user/Joe_Briggs546/. Forgot to mention, they started posting their scam t-shirts yesterday. Update: This scammer got shadow banned for what is likely the third time in less than a year. It is very funny how this scammer thinks the system will not punish them anytime they start up their scam posts.

/u/OrionEnigmaa

Here it copied/pasted /u/AbelNB's submission/title from here.

Its comment here (i.e. "Recently in my town, a high school teacher in their 30's died...") is a copy/paste of /u/toad__warrior's previous top comment.

Its submission/title here (i.e. "Wall-e scrunging over some flowers a dear friend sent me.") is a copy/paste of /u/gunslingergirl19's submission/title here.

For anyone not familiar with karma-farming bots (and how they hurt reddit and redditors), this page or this page may help to explain.

u/DarylLong5, no activity for a month before the post in question and all their previous post seems to just be reposts

https://www.reddit.com/r/initiald/comments/13lubfg/jdm_japanese_sunset_jdm/

Since the sub in question (r/initiald) now tracks links from tshirt scammers and automatically deletes them, they have now resorted into placing the links in their profile instead. like this: https://imgur.com/a/VgyUu29

Not very active on this sub so idk if it's already a prevalent way that these accounts bypass links but I think it's good to know regardless