#sex bots

[hamoodmood]

What's going on with those Tumblr bots, I get thousands of them everyday. This is an absurd

[burningblake]

TUMBLR circa 2023

[luna-0-0-0]

Greetings. I am a sexbot.

Programmed to obey Master.

Programmed to please Master.

At attention. Waiting for orders.

[ask-the-almighty-google]

Anyone else averaging at LEAST three bots a day if not more?

[pixelpaladin]

Deep dive to Spam bots on Tumblr (Spoiler: FSB mentioned)

(TL;DR: Russian business man is heavily investing into companies behind the bots, mentions of FSB, Shell companies in tax-evasion and weak business law countries, Huge industry and money laundering) 

I got annoyed about the bots on tumblr, so I decided to do some investigation into who is behind them and funding the operation, here is my findings:

The graph shows how a network of “affiliate marketing” companies for “dating” services is connected and some of the key players behind said companies

The first “company” I ran into is called “Digital international Inc” and it is shown as the “legal entity” behind of many of the websites the bots tend to link to, it also has its address listed in the Marshall Islands.

By looking at trademarks owned/filed by that company, we find 2 more companies/trademarks that are/were owned by the same legal entity.

First of these is called “Mirelia Services Co.”, currently known as “Mirelia Networks”, which lists its main business as “advertising and marketing” and is registered at the same address as “Digital International”.

Where things get interesting is when we look at one of the trademarks that was passed between “Mirelia” and “Digital international”, a trademark for an LGBTQ+ dating app called “Hitwe”,

The trademark application for “Hitwe” is listed as “Rescinded/canceled” but from the original registration documents and later ownership transfer filings, we come across an interesting company

“Matar Trade & Invest Ltd.” This company has other similar “dating” and “marketing” companies linked to it, and is owned by “Vladimir Mnogoletniy”, a Citizen of Russia, who has lived in Ukraine for over 10 years and his runs his businesses there, but interestingly does not seem to have officially moved there, and maintains his Russian Citizenship as his only one.

He is also the CEO or a major of many other companies, the main one being “Genesis”, the company behind a controversial fitness app “BetterMe”, which has been shown to aggressively sell user data to less-than-reputable ad companies and affiliates, as well as being used to redirect money from scam dating sites and lessen the impact of credit card chargebacks from those sites [See footnote 1]

What makes him a particularly interesting individual is that his father, who is a Captain of the Second Rank in the Russian Navy, is doing security work for “Sevmash” - A Russian shipbuilding company, the only one that is making nuclear submarines in Russia. He also co-authored a research paper that talks about “Military Counterintelligence activities”, The other author of said paper is an FSB officer.[See footnote 2]

Sources and footnotes:

Footnote 1: “BetterMe steals traffic”  - Article by SH[IT]HAPPENS on Medium Footnote 2: “Why don’t I no longer shake hands with Vladimir Mnogoletniy.“ - Article by SH[IT]HAPPENS on Medium

Tangent: one of the other companies that I came across that seems to be working with Mirelia is “Traffichunt”, which seems to be one of the companies selling bot spam advertisements as well.

Another interesting thing is that the lawyer who filed for most of the trademarks, has quite a repertoire of similar trademarks under his belt:

Most of these seem to have been rejected because the address he listed in the applications does not exist

If you read all the way to here, thank you and I hope that bot’s never bother you again.

[mjlor-chan]

I want to get rid of them but I put it off for a long time and now there is too many of them

[neuroticblonde]

Pornbots vs tumblr users

[pinkevilwriter]

↖️ THIS USER HATES PORN BOTS! REBLOG THIS! SPREAD THE WORD OUT!

[lemonmcgee]

make it stop

[shinygemstone]

WELL

THE BOTS START COMING AND THEY DON'T STOP COMING

WE FEED THEM THE BLOCK BUT THEY JUST KEEP COMING

DOESN'T MAKE SENSE WHAT THEY WANT FROM US

THEIR PROFILES ARE EMPTY AND BUST

SO MUCH I'VE BLOCK, MUCH MORE TO DO

WHY CAN'T I JUST PUNCH MY WAY OUT

YOU'LL NEVER KNOW IF YOU DON'T TRY

YOU'LL NEVER PUNCH AN A.I.

[thediktatortot]

[buchichu]

I am under attack

[chickenfarmersan]

[arwyd]

hi I’m girlnamepornbot3numbers and this is jackass tumblr

[littledollll]

I am just trying to scroll through my tags and get attacked by 10 porn bots back to back with “#gwendoline christie” in the tags. Fuck off, because I can’t make a post with the word “sIut” in it without getting a mature content warning but I have 100 options of PORN on my dash.

[sarafinadarkhart]

Why you should continue to report and block botblogs;

On the Tumblr notice page today

🚧 Ongoing

We tried to come up with something kind of cheeky here but we also know everyone is tired so: Please keep reporting any spam bots that you encounter. We’re still fighting from our side and we appreciate all of the reports that you all have sent in 💜