Opinion: Bot on bot scamming


If you can be savvy enough to have robot social media accounts work for you, I’d bet you could put that brain to better uses for humanity. — Pixabay

Oh boy I’ve been holding onto this one for a while and I’m excited to finally be writing it.

I’ve written before about bot scams on social media that comment on popular posts, or reply to popular comments. There are a bunch of different types. Some pretend to be a flirtatious woman trying to seduce the commenter, some claim they have a guru that changed their life and sometimes they are as simple as “(Name) how are you doing today?” give or take the proper punctuation.

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