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what could the spammer gain by doing this?

• nvy 3y ago
  Back in the before times it wasn't uncommon for people to release malware without any explicit monetary benefit. Sometimes they just did it as a "fuck you" to Microsoft, who at the time had a very very poor reputation for a myriad of reasons beyond the scope of this comment. tl;dr they might just do it for the lulz
• jsheard 3y ago
  Typically when you see mass automation of benign posts they are "priming" the accounts to make them appear human and trustworthy before they start spamming/phishing with them later. Brand new accounts are treated with more scrutiny by spam filters so this technique lets them get around that. A more primitive version of the technique was YouTube comment bots that simply re-posted other users comments verbatim - now with LLMs they can easily generate unique white noise posts instead.
• mirekrusin 3y ago
  Scammers applying to 10 jobs have to have accounts that have activity.
• unstuck3958 3y ago
  In India, there is a lot of competition in the tech field so devs often want to put open-source contributions on their resume. This definitely does not account for the majority of the spam, but could possibly be a sizeable minority of it.
  • prepend 3y ago
    I think it’s the same in the US. I see position descriptions that require GitHub profiles. I don’t require it, but I definitely look at applicants profiles. Of course, if I see lots of spurious and stupid commits that’s a negative and worse than nothing at all.