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It's a Friday, and a coterie of bots is bombarding folks' mentions with repetitive solicitations to buy masks from some random Twitter account. With a website named "bigsales-amazon(dot)com" (NOT the real Amazon), what could possibly go wrong? #coronagrift
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
We found 17 accounts operating on identical schedules and spamming repetitive replies directing folks to purchase masks from @Shop_Mask_USA's website. Although they (seemingly) only began tweeting in May 2020, the accounts are all several years old.
Additionally, almost all of the tweets posted by these 17 accounts were processed by the same Twitter datacenter, suggesting they were sent via the same internet connection. (Tweet IDs contain information on which datacenter processed them, details here: )
