We have seen a recent wave of impersonation accounts which claim to be another fediverse user, often with a similar username and boosting some posts from the original account, before reaching out to followers over private mentions and claiming to have issues with their original account.
Please report them if you see them!
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/staff/statuses/115816509757147623 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/115816509757147623
Hint: no-one you know is moving TO mastodon.social.
Don’t mean to be snarky about it, but that is pure truth
RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/115816509757147623
I guess I should point out that my many catsalad accounts on Mastodon are chain verified to each other (usually alphabetical) with ties to main (catsalad@infosec.exchange) to avoid impersonation like this.
Of course, 99% of my activity is here anyway, and I'm not going anywhere :3
