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Be aware of Medium’s fake writers.

2nd wave of fake writers.

The same pattern as the previous wave, only this time, most of the accounts have 2 behind their usernames, so I call it the 2nd wave. I would only think this is just to keep track of the results of how many accounts were surviving from the 1st wave and how many will survive from the 2nd wave.

I even got to one, Kath Kibler (username kathkibler2) when it was following me live, the following number went from 87 to 150. Evidence below.

and 10 minutes later

I also tried to initiate a conversation through Private Message

but as one would expect, no reply, at least not yet.

Here are the other fake writers or fake followers: Ralph Etinne, Mehmet Ozturk, Mary Daly, Carlos Goller, Carole Smith, Alonso Ramirez.

The above ones are from 25th of June 2020 and they all followed me within an hour’s time, and strangely enough, no other Medium notifications came in during that time.

As a bonus, I got 2 extra fakes today, 26th of June 2020: John Nagy and Kumer Das.

30th of June update: an addition of a mathematics teacher Christopher Culbertson, a chiropractor Allison Abbott and a book worm James Horn.

Call to action. Please be aware of the people who are following you without any other action, let’s try to keep Medium clean and organized.

You may want to check out the previous related stories about “Medium fakes” here:

and here:

I feel like this is turning into a weird kind of series already :)

But seriously, let’s try to keep Medium clean, and let’s be aware of our online surroundings.

As always, a humble thank you for reading and paying attention. Chowa.