Heads up, when you follow someone, look closely at their username. There seem to be a lot of accounts impersonating other well-known accounts. I fell for this myself before thinking to check.
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People also do it to gain followers and keep changing the name around to gain more. Then they can sell the account because it has a large number of followers
I saw that with some "content scraper" accounts from the other place... there were several that watched me and then had different names a year or two later... o.o
People will pay a good amount of money for an account with a large number of followers so they can advertise or whatever else they want to do lol. And it costs the person doing it very little time x3
Even though I don't know you. I saw an account like this followed me the other day I was like oh thank you and now. I'm like there's two and ones an impersonation?! Good to know who the right one is.
I think they’re stalking your follows list lol. Just a few minutes after following you I got followed by this scam account 😭 knew it was fake right away
Oh yeah, I glanced at it and though “woah cool!” But when I actually opened the app later I saw it was different. Sad to see it happening here, thought we left that back at Xitter 🙄
It strikes me that having all user names be ALL CAPS or all lowercase would help mitigate this a bit, but would remove some freedom in name selection here...
Maybe a change of font to make zeros and O and ones and the letter "L" and etc... all look different?
I'm not sure how that works, but can't we force our browsers (for those of us on WEB desktop version) to use a local font? ... ... ... I'm just grasping here...
It's unfortunate that clearsky seems to be running a little behind... These scammers almost always block the account they are impersonating and so it's interesting to look on ClearSky and see what names they used before and who they were impersonating... I saw one that had 10 name changes... o.o
If this account lasts until tomorrow (they are less than three hours old it seems...) we may see who they are blocking and who is blocking them. I understand that clearsky has a LOT of data coming in with all the new accounts, etc... https://clearsky.app/klleekaii.bsky.social/blocking
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This has been happening a lot recently.
Maybe a change of font to make zeros and O and ones and the letter "L" and etc... all look different?
Bsky seems to be pretty good about kicking these off when reported.