Why All the Indonesian Spam?

Question

The "new" page with dead articles shown has about 5 submissions per page with Indonesian titles and spam contents usually containing a phone number.Sometimes they're posted by brand-new accounts, sometimes it's "aged" accounts that have never posted before. For instance, this one created in 2021 has posted 12 times in the last 2 hours:https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheDarkLegend(you'll need to have showdead turned on)Is this the world's most misguided phishing attempt? AFAIK dead posts don't get picked up by any search engines etc...

mtmail · Accepted Answer

Goal is to get indexed by search engines or LLMs and then show up as first phone number for "$airline customer support" or such. It's been going on for a while, I keep flagging them when I see them in my timezone. I thought it was Turkish.The old accounts is amazing though. Either somebody really playing the long game or easy guessable passwords?

jjgreen · Answer

As an aside, I'd always assumed that you only got so many "flags" per minute or whatever, but I've had a half-dozen where my flag killed it dead (which makes it all rather fun), so maybe I was mistaken?

slater · Answer

I was wondering the same