Finally, They Cloned Buster! What Is Next? Tony?
A heartfelt invitation to vigilance to prevent scams on Medium.com and make the platform more trustworthy and pleasant for the community
Remember two months ago when I warned about these scammers, infamous as the leeches of Medium? Battling Scams: My Heartfelt Struggle Against 5 Medium Attacks in a Week, Unveiling Their Latest Tactic. Now, they have newer tactics. They never give up.
They are infiltrating our ecosystem like viruses, now targeting the platform’s immune system itself. Every day, they devise new tactics to prey on established and renowned writers, and they’re even going after senior executives like Buster Benson, mimicking their trust to deceive unsuspecting members.
After reading a clever poem with a compelling story by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman, I was inspired to address a pressing issue once more with care as a Friend of Medium, writer, and editor. Here is the link to his piece: Catch Us If You Can!: A sonnet of scammers have Medium playing whack-a-mole.
Marcus’s clever poem gave me a few…
