Breaux Arts on Nostr: We started getting weird signup requests on woof.group for LA law firms this week. ...
We started getting weird signup requests on woof.group for LA law firms this week. They're obviously spam, and they're coming from ABTS Karnataka IP space, so presumably it's actually an Indian company--but I can't figure out the angle. Shady marketing contractor? Independent actor using the firms' identities as cover for unrelated spam? The HTML tags in the request suggests it's at least partly automated.
Called one of the firms yesterday, and they had no idea what was happening. #admin
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