Lots of new Bots / Fake Accounts or possible "wake up" following possible Data Breach ?

[luckylinux]

Not sure what is going on these Days.

I can see New Members (either 100% new or first created say in 2022 with only 2-3 Posts until then) all of a sudden "waking up" and starting replying to my Threads, sometimes even PM me directly asking for some Links to upload some SSD Firmware etc.

Anybody else observing some similar Trend ?

I'm not saying all new Accounts are Fake/Bots/Scams, but there seems to be a new Trend here .

And I'm not sure if this is following a Data Breach or if they have been hacked or whatnot, it seems a bit suspicious to me.

 

[CyklonDX]

all i see people they have an issue - get it solved or not - abandon. *if they already had an account they just recover it and post whatever they want, then go afk again.

but i think some posts/threads are designed to make you look at products... i typically skip those questions completely. -- maybe i should sht on that company they want to ask questions about.

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/how-to-check-if-an-asrock-rack-server-barebone-mb-is-still-in-production.48045/

like this one - it looks like a bait to look at their product stack...

 

[marcoi]

i been noticing more posts with new members asking questions that seem like chatgpt wrote it using a third graders writing skills. Then other posts were ads for something like robotics course.