Spam Alert
Somebody with my image and name is posting a phone number to call
It’s not me and I have blocked the person.
We’re getting some bots. Are we over some new targets?
Thank you to Tom K. for bringing it to my attention.
Do you still see it or did I eradicate it?
It's happening at Sasha Latypovas substack too.
From what I see, you've eradicated it.
My technical assessment so far: A bug in the substack platform software may have recently been introduced, accidentally (when the substack engineering team, say, recently rolled out a new feature) -- that certain spammers are now exploiting (the spammers seem to be using automated bots).
It currently seems like posts with comments set to "both free and paid readers can comment" are more vulnerable to this spam issue than posts with comments set to "only paid readers can comment".
The Engineers at Substack HQ will need to address this issue. I've been on the platform nearly daily for the last 10 months -- reading many various substacks per day. 'First time I've seen this type of issue.