A few weeks ago I received another round of spam accounts from a different .de domain. About eight were created, and I simply blocked the domain and deleted them. As of yesterday, a new round of spam accounts have been created, this time with GMail accounts. Since I certainly will not be blocking all Google accounts, I will need to find another way to combat the spammers. I am currently looking at IP addresses as a means for dealing with this, but I suspect the spammer has more than one at their disposal.
If the person or persons responsible for these accounts is reading this, I would be delighted to hear from you! Is this the same person or group each time, or have several different ones implemented the same strategy? I had a similar problem on my Gitea server as well, was this also the same person/group? To what end? These accounts can’t post anything and don’t have public facing bios, so what is the point? Of course, I’d appreciate it if you’d stop, but I’ll settle for information as well. 