We all know them the 00.001 steem messages that peddle bots and upvote services. We have gotten used to them and just ignore them . Well kids there is a new cockroach in town in form of people begging you to read their posts by harassing people over their wallets. Sure these messages are written in the fake plastic politeness often used by movie villains in hiding or politicians, but let us be clear these people basically did the equivalent of walking into your home and tagging your wall with spray paint. Like saccharine their sweetness gives you cancer ...
The two who contacted me (who was peddling a supposed friend post) and
have fairly high ranking accounts so I thought they might have been hacked, but it does not seem to be the case as the links the spam lead to are legit steemit links. I did look into some other accounts linked to this spam such as
and he and
are powering down wich does often happen when accounts get hacked, but as we said the links in the spam do not lead to external sites so am not sure how the hack would work ... maybe through some other post or message i could no longer see in the string of spam messages these people have been sending out ...
As is, I am annoyed and will keep monitoring the situation. If it turns out to be hacked accounts I will let people know but if it isn't( as it looks like currently ) the spammers should be aware that I will start spamming their posts with very grumpy comments and memes from hell ! you want people to engage with your stuff then engage with theirs stop spamming! Steemit has turned into the sewage hangout of mutant rejects already, we don't need the next wave of pollution to deepen the death stench ...
Update-
I was just made aware that these people have been doing this for a while now. So this is what I have to say to that =
what you are doing is rude and unacceptable! it is an invasion of personal space!if you want to use memos for promotion at least have the decency to write an introductory memo! something like this " hello I am @ XYZ , i like to send people interesting posts over the memo system would you be interested ?" something like that. Have some bloody manners!
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