Lead review
Suspicious score 50/100 · text cluster · 10 accounts · 13 posts
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First seen Sat 14 Nov 10:18 UTC, last Sat 14 Nov 10:25 UTC.
Coordinated activity by accounts with several signs of being inauthentic.
This is a lead for a human reviewer, not an accusation. Signals are measured; thresholds are starting values evaluated on the metrics page.
Account profiles fetched: 100%.
Nemotron investigation
Staged confidence medium · recommended: human review
Ten Bluesky accounts posted near-identical text within minutes of each other, each greeting a different named recipient and asking them to share or donate to help an unspecified cause. No links, images, or videos were included.
Narrative: A vague, unverifiable appeal for amplification and/or money: each post addresses a different person by name ('Hi Jason', 'Hi Mike', etc.) and asks them to 'share or doante to help us,' without naming any cause, beneficiary, amount, or location.
Strongest innocent explanation considered: Independent users copied a common template for a personal request for help, changing only the greeting, similar to friends sharing a fundraiser or assistance request through a share button.
- S:copy_paste = 100% with the identical misspelling 'doante' in every post indicates a single shared template rather than independent composition (P1-P10).
- S:empty_profiles = 100% and S:low_reach = 80%: all accounts lack avatars and bios, and most have fewer than 10 followers, inconsistent with independent people making personal appeals (A1-A10).
- S:cross_cluster = 100%: every account also appears in at least two other flagged clusters within 24 hours, indicating reuse of the same accounts across campaigns.
- Counterweights: accounts are aged (221-801 days), not newly created (S:new_accounts = 0%); synchrony is below threshold at 31% (S:synchrony); repetition is low at 1.3 (S:repetition); no links and no declared automation (S:declared_automation = 0%).
Manipulation techniques
| Technique | Exact words | Why | Post |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vague unverifiable appeal | “Please share or doante to help us.” | The request triggers helpfulness without naming any cause, beneficiary, or verifiable need; the same phrase appears with only the greeting changed across all ten posts. | P1 |
Sources
| Domain | Trust | Why |
|---|---|---|
| none | unknown | No web pages were linked in any post (Linked web pages: none), so domain age, registrar, propaganda-list status, and content-origin checks cannot be performed. |
Evidence-backed claims
- None - the posts make no checkable factual claim about an event, place, person, or cause. P1P2P3P4P5P6P7P8
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b, prompt v5, Sat 10:56 UTC, 2 model calls, 36.8 s · 100% of its references checked against the evidence. Evidence ids: P post, A account, I image, V video, W web page, Q news search, N news article, S detector signal.
Activity per minute
8 minutes, peak 3 posts in one minute.
Signals
| Category | Signal | Value | Threshold | Fired | What it means here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coordination | copy_paste | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of posts repeat near-identical text from another account. |
| coordination | synchrony | 31% | ≥ 50% | no | 31% of the activity happened within a single minute. |
| coordination | repetition | 1.3 | ≥ 2.0 | no | Each account posted this 1.3 times on average. |
| coordination | cross_cluster | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of the accounts also appear in at least two other flagged clusters (24 h). |
| account | removed_accounts | 0% | ≥ 20% | no | 0% of the accounts are no longer served by Bluesky (suspended or deleted). |
| account | new_accounts | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts were created in the last 30 days. |
| account | creation_burst | 20% | ≥ 40% | no | 20% of the accounts were created within the same 72 hours. |
| account | low_reach | 80% | ≥ 60% | yes | 80% of the accounts have fewer than 10 followers. |
| account | empty_profiles | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of the accounts have no profile picture or no bio. |
| account | template_bios | 0% | ≥ 30% | no | 0% of the accounts have a bio that near-duplicates another account's bio. |
| provenance | known_accounts | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | 0 account(s) are on IFTAS's public list of suspected Portal Kombat accounts. |
| provenance | listed_servers | 0% | ≥ 30% | no | 0% of the accounts are bridged from Mastodon servers on IFTAS's list. |
| provenance | known_domains | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | Links to 0 domain(s) on VIGINUM/CheckFirst propaganda lists. |
| provenance | pravda_sources | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | Links to 0 Telegram channel(s) that Pravda sites republish (a lead, not proof). |
| disclosure | declared_automation | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts say in their profile that they are bots or automated feeds. |
Accounts (10, 10 no longer on Bluesky)
Median account age: 796 days. Names are shown only for accounts on IFTAS's public list or already removed by Bluesky; the team sees all.
| Account | Age (days) | Followers | Follows | Posts here | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ffurkan12.bsky.social Maahmood | 536 | 5 | 4 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| shopon29.bsky.social Ma7mod | 223 | 14 | 8 | 3 | removed from Bluesky |
| pedroj0.bsky.social Mahmod | 791 | 16 | 12 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| thaissilvax.bsky.social Mahmod | 800 | 9 | 11 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| shuanny.bsky.social Ma7mod | 803 | 6 | 8 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| preto2103.bsky.social Maahmood | 767 | 2 | 1 | 2 | removed from Bluesky |
| cx70.bsky.social Mahmod | 805 | 1 | 1 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| isaiahandvengeance.bsky.social Maahmood | 721 | 1 | 1 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| henriqueof33.bsky.social Maahmood | 796 | 3 | 4 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| dpfzinha.bsky.social Maahmood | 796 | 4 | 4 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
Sample posts from already-public cases
| Time (UTC) | Account | Text |
|---|---|---|
| 10:18:46 | ffurkan12.bsky.social | Hi Jason, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:19:11 | shopon29.bsky.social | Hi Mike, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:21:14 | pedroj0.bsky.social | Hi Madame, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:21:44 | thaissilvax.bsky.social | Hi Neil, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:21:59 | shuanny.bsky.social | Hi Nubbs, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:22:13 | preto2103.bsky.social | Hi Patricia, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:24:13 | cx70.bsky.social | Hi MBC, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:24:29 | isaiahandvengeance.bsky.social | Hi Terramiasma, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:24:43 | henriqueof33.bsky.social | Hi kathiejc, Please share or doante to help us. open |
| 10:25:11 | dpfzinha.bsky.social | Hi Raze, Please share or doante to help us. open |
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