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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
What's up with all these extremely similar-looking job listing tweets, many of which are cut off mid-word? #Spamtastic

cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: a botnet, consisting of 103 accounts with names indicating that they offer jobs in a certain city (i.e, @HendersonJobs1) or a certain line of work (@EngineerJobs3). They all link to the same website, e-physician(dot)info.
All of the recent "job listings" tweets from these bots link to e-physician(dot)info, which appears to be scraping real job listings from ZipRecruiter and slapping its own ads on them. Despite the website name, most of the "jobs" being offered are not in the healthcare field.
One more thing: e-physician(dot)info is not the only website that this botnet has promoted. We found 11 others that it linked over the last ~27 months, all of which share the same IP address and feature similar scraped job listing content. There may well be more.

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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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