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Spammers Are Back? — Beware of Scams, Fake and Clone Accounts

Can you tell the difference between a spammer and the actual Author?

Bin Jiang
Write A Catalyst
3 min readJul 2, 2024

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About an hour ago while I was going over to reply to some comments on the about me contest, I saw This!

Image of spammer replying to Mehak.

This is the first time that a spammer has decided to clone my account.

So I’m writing to let all the audience know about it, just in case you thought it was me by not paying attention.

First, I Do Not host a Whats App, Discord, or Telegram and I certainly would not ask you to go on any of these communication apps without an official announcement in a post or newsletter.

How to tell if a comment is from the author, there is a FOM or member badge at the top right corner and it will say “Author” is highlighted in Green next to the name.

This is what the fake/clone account and comment look like below:

Fake/clone account trying to get the reader off the platform.

So be alert and look out for spammers/scammers, they are back.

Well, I though we got rid of them…

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