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Conspirador Norteño

@conspirator0

Mar 15

@ZellaQuixote

Cryptocurrency spam networks are a dime a dozen these days (a dogecoin a dozen?), but cryptocurrency spam networks that have been spamming in lockstep for several years while moving from topic to topic are less common. Here's a look at one such network.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

This network consists of 38 accounts created in late 2014 and early 2015. Almost all of their tweets since October 2022 were tweeted via the Twitter Web App, with a handful sent via something called "Mises Browser".

@TeddySwap

The accounts in this network all amplify (retweet and reply to) the same set of cryptocurrency accounts, with @TeddySwap and @pawket_app being their current favorites. They also regularly tweet similar/identical tweets within a few minutes of one other.

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Conspirador Norteño

@conspirator0

Mar 9

@ZellaQuixote

It's a great day to look at a spammy network that's been tweeting repetitive political tweets for the last year. Plot twist: many of the spammy repeated tweets are anti-Biden, but the network mostly retweets pro-Biden accounts. #ThursdayAstroturf

cc: @ZellaQuixote

This spam network consists of (at least) 1167 similarly-named accounts created between January 2022 and January 2023. Thus far, all of their tweets were allegedly tweeted via the Twitter Web App.

For the first few months of 2022, the accounts in this network only retweeted, producing no tweets of their own. This changed in early May 2022; from that point forward, the network posted roughly equal numbers of tweets and retweets on any given day.

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Conspirador Norteño

@conspirator0

Mar 5

@ilkersenock

There's some weird stuff going on with the engagement on this tweet from @ilkersenock, including multiple retweets from accounts with GAN-generated faces. Let's take a look. #SundayShenaniGANs

cc: @ZellaQuixote

@ilkersenock

The accounts with GAN-generated faces that retweeted the @ilkersenock tweet in question are part of a network of 18 accounts created on February 17th, 2023 with GAN-generated faces. All of their content thus far is retweets of @ilkersenock tweeted via the Twitter Web App.

@BerkYil82206927

Despite the fact that one can produce an endless number of unique GAN-generated faces, this network contains duplicates: @BerkYil82206927 and @GokerCelik5 use the same image, as do @DenizSe18153981/@KorayEr34506957, @GokerKaya7/@TugraAgaoglu3, and @TunaDem21703166/@UmutKorkmaz8.

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Conspirador Norteño

@conspirator0

Mar 3

@ThePatriotOasis

Come for the fake video, stay for the fake followers. It turns out that @ThePatriotOasis, an account that went viral earlier this week with a Biden deepfake video, recently gained approximately 8000 batch-created followers with zero tweets and zero likes.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

@ThePatriotOasis

The fake followers following @ThePatriotOasis are from a massive and very familiar fake follower network. Here are a couple of threads on it:

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1576736263863877632

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1602864361764175873

@ThePatriotOasis

The account currently named @ThePatriotOasis (ID 1392538357251469312) has been renamed at least twice: previous names include @/CodyGrantham12 (

https://web.archive.org/web/20210514183827/https://twitter.com/CodyGrantham12/status/1393273743833772033

) and @/TheTennesseeGuy (

https://web.archive.org/web/20220610235828/https://twitter.com/TheTennesseeGuy/status/1534686307204702208

). Early tweets are about cryptocurrency rather than politics.

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Conspirador Norteño

@conspirator0

Mar 2

@WariorInc

If you get scammed and tweet about it, you might get a reply or three offering "help" from spammy accounts promoting the services of alleged "Certified Network Defender" @WariorInc.

(Tip: spammy Twitter accounts can't actually help you get your money back.)

cc: @ZellaQuixote

@WariorInc

At the time of this writing, at least 18 accounts (including two Twitter Blue verified accounts) are spamming replies advertising @WariorInc's "services". Although most of these accounts have been around for years, almost all of their content is replies from February/March 2023.

@WariorInc

These accounts' replies are extremely repetitive, with replies recommending the "services" of @WariorInc being the most frequent. Some of the repeated replies mention "Security Analyst" @astra_cyberdesk or suspended account @apexhelpdesk rather than @WariorInc.

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Conspirador Norteño

@conspirator0

Feb 27

@ZellaQuixote

Tens of thousands of accounts have been created on Spoutible (a new social media platform powered by Bot Sentinel) over the last few weeks. What do all of them except one have in common? Answer: a Bot Sentinel score of 0% ("Normal").

cc: @ZellaQuixote

As of early evening on Saturday, February 25th, 2023, there were 96208 publicly viewable Spoutible accounts, 96207 of which have Bot Sentinel scores of 0%. The sole exception is @/MyNameIs, which was one of the earliest accounts created.

The list of accounts and scores was obtained by programmatically triggering the functionality of the "LOAD MORE" button on the Spoutible People search with no filters, which appears to return all accounts in newest-first order (along with their Bot Sentinel scores).