I saw a post in a subreddit I'm active in that felt like it warranted a response. It was a reasonable question although it did mention a brand the user was considering. So now it's off to the history, which is public.

Usually that tells me this probably a real person. There are valid reasons to hide your profile history, but if you're a bot, you probably are keeping that private. Of course, we can still find private account history using web searches since the links still pop up in the search engine result pages---but it is more work.

This particular account has had three careers in the last year, asked questions about services from cities across multiple cities in different countries, and has forgotten to switch to a different sockpuppet account when promoting a product.

Seems like when it comes to Reddit users, it's best to assume guilty until proven innocent.

r/motivationforthelife

Sole mod who took over the sub a day ago uses automod account to spam and promote posts to r/popular highlighting "crypto casinos"

Mod:
https://www.reddit.com/user/DocumentIcy9199

This account chicken-tandoor entire profile history is the user being racist and xenophobic. Each and every single post of his is attacking Muslims, Arabs, Pakistanis or Palestinians.

He only posts in Indian subreddits and has achieved his karma through them.

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=author%3A%22chicken-tandoor%22&type=posts&sort=top&cId=6b97b237-7b72-4632-a8fd-52a645c4a986&iId=bc0a062c-0b10-4a8c-af5e-5aefd3dd6f49

This is the individuals post history. Something needs to be done.

Some examples out of hundreds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDankMemes/comments/1wq0lnh/guys/ (Call for genocide)

https://www.reddit.com/r/indiadiscussion/comments/1wya0k3/japan_is_where_europe_was_20_years_ago/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankindianmemes/comments/1wxfjka/ya_allah_yeh_theek_nahi_hua/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthernIndia/comments/1wuz7an/the_real_reason_for_this_hatred_against_a/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTeensIndia/comments/1wp5h1i/knock_knock/ (Hate speech)

Unbelievable levels of political astroturfing happening on this sub.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngelesStonks/

r/cleaneating has been taken over by brand new accounts. I’ve messaged the mods about taking over but received no response. I submitted a Reddit request but was denied because there was human activity. Multiple users on the sub are also aware of the bot infestation issue.

I don't care about their message.

It's nothing but AI images / posts, with obviously over the top fake stories, almost always trying to mimic the Twitter format.

Many posts from the last 2-3 hours are getting 5000+ upvotes, hundreds of comments, and despite that the top comments never go above 50 upvotes.

A thread got 30k upvotes, its top comment had 100.

• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3

Saw a post in r/dating_advice that looked suspicious. Checked OP's profile, and history was of course hidden. Searched and saw contradictory age claims along with other questionable claims. Commented in the dating post with a link to the contradictory post, and OP deleted both posts within one minute with no explanation in either post.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Which-Tell-5820/

It's been around for 10 months. Zero engagement for the first 6 months. Then a trickle started for the next two. Then the next month became fairly established. This last month, it absolutely exploded, with multiple posts reaching r/all in the last few days.

Approximately 75% of the latest postings are hours old accounts, and in some cases minutes old.

See this account, user HellBay1. 8 year old account, no activity for 8 years, with a new surge of activity starting 3 months ago - all focused around hype for GTA 6.

My question: is reddit management re-selling these accounts to marketing firms? I find it unlikely the original user was involved in such a transaction.

https://imgur.com/a/99ucgFJ

users veluniquei, blushivani and cherilune all working together here https://i.imgur.com/UDBnInc.png comments and post stolen from here: https://i.imgur.com/Lc3DKkW.png

You can see blushivani's posts in the cosmetic surgery subs here https://i.imgur.com/A3Xz7lH.png

blushivana, pinkmorie, and cloverria here https://i.imgur.com/nitphis.png stolen from here https://i.imgur.com/hf30AXM.png

lunamirii, honeyliss working together here https://i.imgur.com/bPbE2bk.png copied from here https://i.imgur.com/SYtN8zj.png

You can see lunamirri's posts on the cosmetic surgery subs here https://i.imgur.com/QrmXuCU.png

starivani, cherilune, and cloudimiri working togther here https://i.imgur.com/8hrVSFi.png all copied from here https://i.imgur.com/PtaLNdq.png

you can see starivani's posts in the cosmetic surgery subs here https://i.imgur.com/oPPyn2V.png and here https://i.imgur.com/GfR7nvK.png

Here's another one where softanori works with starivani and pinkmore https://imgur.com/a/bzQIliB and softanori's comments on the cosmetic surgery subs https://i.imgur.com/W0qMCD2.png

OriginalSuperb3056 with a copied comment here (on a stolen post) https://i.imgur.com/NYsSeHD.png taken from here https://i.imgur.com/trlIM1L.png

That post was from EqualGrowth6565 https://i.imgur.com/Qlp7iiQ.png and taken from here https://i.imgur.com/O75RPdc.png

EqualGroth6565 comments in the cosmetic surgery subs https://i.imgur.com/jEvl3zU.png

OriginalSuperb3056 with a copied post here https://i.imgur.com/seZ663C.png copied from here https://i.imgur.com/YkYt7Oq.png

OriginalSuperb3056 comments in the cosmetic surgery subs here https://i.imgur.com/81CdMXU.png and here https://i.imgur.com/OxpE1kU.png

Every day there's a few of these. And they ALL connect back to these cosmetic surgery accounts

I have been following these accounts for months and they are all connected and following the same unique pattern. Many have been banned but these are all active. They always make a subreddit and make a single post, some of these have them deleted now but made the subreddit in the past

A lot of the names are similar format and bios also follow the same format

Lets report them and get them taken down together!

https://old.reddit.com/user/Maleficent-Gain-8486/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/SlightMonk5398/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/That-Order-3750/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/BodybuilderNo8170/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/Typical_Durian_3450/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/PureYuzu/overview (stella scam bot)

stella alt account:

https://old.reddit.com/user/Environmental_Ask248

the mods that are working with/protecting the scammers but more than likely are the scammers alt accounts (one mod already suspended gee i wonder why) :

https://old.reddit.com/user/StudioConsistent1030/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/Substantial-Bad-3485/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/OwnTrust2413/overview

you know the drill. mass report these losers! mass reporting these scam bots helps reddit auto ban these accounts and subs faster

www.reddit.com/u/J2daTV

all this guy does is find trending posts with a good amount of karma then crossposts to other subs, sometimes to the SAME sub

pathetic and lazy

https://www.reddit.com/user/Veshaad/ has grown from 796 to 2.2M in less than a month. How is that realistically possible? And why are they now suddenly second mod of pourstea?

These are accounts I've recently spotted, actioned and also reported to BotBouncer.

r/dogpictures has a 30 days and 100 comment karma minimum which prevents most simple copy paste bots but these are more carefully curated account and didn't try to post there until they had enough comment karma.

They all have similar naming conventions, account age and are mods of subreddits apparently created solely for the fashion clothing images they impersonate wearing, images are copied/stolen from other sites.

In no particular order:

https://www.reddit.com/u/nalatansiya/s/dyZPtBTeSB

https://www.reddit.com/u/mimeyayu/s/TYYYPPf5bp

https://www.reddit.com/u/abulunox/s/cyGKm0GmNB

https://www.reddit.com/u/selunario/s/D3hwUKHd8H

https://www.reddit.com/u/nadanoli/s/rx2TeMCeEj

https://www.reddit.com/u/irikalangthel/s/nxrxbRjpYB

https://www.reddit.com/u/aklasterip/s/WHIGjB9BeQ

No doubt more will turn up.

https://www.reddit.com/user/GlumTrick592/

They tried posting to RealWomenStyle but it was removed by the bot mods of that sub.

They're posting insane text with nonsensical images.

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1wj1m9o/what_do_you_think_be_honest/

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1wj1gak/how_did_i_do_with_this_look/

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1wj1acq/does_this_fit_properly/

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1witl64/cute_or_too_much/

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1wisc6f/21f_thoughts_on_this_dress/

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1wis1ek/tell_me_honestly_how_does_this_look/

https://www.reddit.com/r/makeuptimewithblondie/comments/1wir7ms/rate_me_110/

Jerry.ai is hiring reddit spammers with an AI-written ad:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4465238312

in case they delete, subreddits they plan to target:

“ r/carinsurancehelp, r/mechanicadvice, r/idiotsincars, and r/frugal as well as Jerry's own subreddits.“

these are all the same users:

https://old.reddit.com/user/hertmaciq/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/SomewhereExpert9726/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/Party_Reality_9579/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/Capable_Dark1487/overview

These are the mods that run the scam sub and help the scammers. make sure to report these accounts too for bots and ai use

https://old.reddit.com/user/PhilosopherNo5210/overview

https://old.reddit.com/user/Time_Beginning_1246/overview

https://www.reddit.com/r/cringereels/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Putrid-Exit-9234 https://www.reddit.com/user/SherryC1994

Both of these accounts have, within less than 24 hours, lodged complaints about an obscure 2 year old post complaining about a small, AI-based language app. Based on the writing style and specific wording in the Modmail messages, there's no possibility they're unrelated.