Ask HN: Why All the Indonesian Spam?
al2o3cr Monday, November 17, 2025The "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...
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