Spam "band" report: "Project A.W.O.L." follows and likes
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Hello, I am experiencing this extremely low scale (since my blog is still new) follow/likes spam by a series of profiles and blogs that apparently are part of a band/group/scheme called “Project A.W.O.L.”:
http://juliansherman.net/
http://www.moneyequalslifestyle.com/
http://workwithsergioblanco.com/
http://createblog.co/
http://www.joeseeber.com/
http://workwithsergioblanco.com/
http://rdminitiative.com/You can find them on the followers list of my blog (diegoe.wp.com), there are two or three legit people there by the way (correliebre, Malu, Christian Mihai, myself).
I know there are limited actions you can take on spammers that use these methods, by I also thought you would appreciate a report on new spam sources.
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The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’ve had some of the exact same people spam my blog with fake and unwanted “follows”. I’ve posted about this in the forums before and got no response from anyone yet. I disabled all likes on my blog and deleted all tags and categories because I was so sick of like spammers. And I still get them. Here’s my thread on this. Hope WP has some solution for dealing with these people. I’m sick of them.
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I’ve been thinking on disabling likes and follows in the future if this keeps getting worse.
I still think staff at WP.com should somehow be notified though.
I’m new here so I thought this was the best place. Let’s hope they see it.Thanks for the “follow” up :-)
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I just got 6 obviously fake followers who are probably waiting for my next post to spam the contact form (I get a lot of that).
Diegoe, I understood that there is no way to disable following, isn’t that true?
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I also have been getting members of Project AWOL “following” my blog for the last few months – four just yesterday – in my case, they don’t actually do anything apart from like one post, follow and then never return. I think their point is to draw you back to their site, get you to like a post (which must generate money for them), watch their pyramid scheme video then part with your cash…. If there was some way to put in a filter to get rid of these guys, I’d install it. You can always look at http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud and http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/other/dvimf16.shtm for more information and to report whoever is bothering you….
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