Targeted by spam accounts

KinJongUnAirlines · Feb 1, 2019

Hey y'all

As I am growing slowly but steadily I guess I become more prone to spam attacks. They look like this: Over the course of 12 hours I get followed by 50 or so accounts that all have similar names (usually a name and a number e.g. taylor2487, jim1384, stacey1734, izabel7878), pic of some random bikini chick, no posts and are following more than a thousand people. These are super spammy accounts that are not doing anything for me and harm my engagement rate. For now I have reported all those accounts as spam but it does not stop and obviously I cant keep track of every account that follows me.

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution? Obviously reporting works very slowly.

Thanks and peace out

Alfie777 · Feb 1, 2019

They'll eventually get banned. But if you have a bot you can choose to block all people with over a certain followers /following ratio I think.

Veil123 · Feb 1, 2019

That is most likely a competitor trying to harm you by sending you fake and low quality followers.

NirvanaWolf · Feb 1, 2019

KinJongUnAirlines said:
Hey y'all

As I am growing slowly but steadily I guess I become more prone to spam attacks. They look like this: Over the course of 12 hours I get followed by 50 or so accounts that all have similar names (usually a name and a number e.g. taylor2487, jim1384, stacey1734, izabel7878), pic of some random bikini chick, no posts and are following more than a thousand people. These are super spammy accounts that are not doing anything for me and harm my engagement rate. For now I have reported all those accounts as spam but it does not stop and obviously I cant keep track of every account that follows me.

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution? Obviously reporting works very slowly.

Thanks and peace out

Switch to private mode so that you can approve your followers. If you don't want to do that, block all those profiles, which will take more time if you don't use a bot.

KinJongUnAirlines · Feb 1, 2019

NirvanaWolf said:
Switch to private mode so that you can approve your followers. If you don't want to do that, block all those profiles, which will take more time if you don't use a bot.

Thanks for the reply. I am using Jarvee and will look it up right now.

FindDIY · Feb 1, 2019

Set your account to private for the time being.

KinJongUnAirlines · Feb 1, 2019

Alfie777 said:
They'll eventually get banned. But if you have a bot you can choose to block all people with over a certain followers /following ratio I think.

What ratio would be a good one to start with? I am using Jarvee.

Alfie777 · Feb 1, 2019

KinJongUnAirlines said:
What ratio would be a good one to start with? I am using Jarvee.

depends on what the usual ratio is for the spam accounts that are following you.
use a type of laffer curve which will tell you at what follow rate the most fake follows are coming

KinJongUnAirlines · Feb 1, 2019

Alfie777 said:
depends on what the usual ratio is for the spam accounts that are following you.
use a type of laffer curve which will tell you at what follow rate the fakest follows are coming

I just went through these accounts and it is very different. Some have 5k followers, just following 800 people. Some have 800 followers, following 8000 people. What they all have in common tho is 0 posts. I am afraid though, that the blockhammer on everyone with 0 posts might unintentionally block some people who just like and comment and post nothing themselves?

Tester_7 · Feb 1, 2019

The only way to control this by making your account private and manually accepting new followers.
You can then make it public when the spam attack stop.

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