[Link] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia

Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com

The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.

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[Link] Real Polygon Keeps Getting Spammed By Shady Polygon

Read: 9/8/2021 kotaku.com

Polygon is an American video game website that publishes blogs, news, reviews, and such. Polygon, according to its website, is “a protocol and a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.

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[Link] Why Scammers Make Spelling and Grammar “Mistakes”

Read: 10/2/2021 josephsteinberg.com

I am frequently asked why phishing emails and other scam messages often contain spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. “Haven’t scammers learned by now how to write in proper English?” the question often goes.

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