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From Telegram to YouTube the Pharma WEF bots have been employing every possible tactic in the comments section, as arguing and insulting has got them nowhere they have now taken to impersonating the author... Which means you are over the target and they fear their house of cards narrative is about to collapse on them

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Yes they are. I really doubt you would ask me to text you for something big (💸), although it was momentarily flattering to think you would have commented on my comment to your post. No, I didn’t text the number. This septuagenarian is not that easily taken in by scams.

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thanks for the alert= you are the most undodgy person i read- aren't people soo terribly stupid!!??

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Ugh, sorry to hear that happened to you. It's nice of you to try to give people the heads up.

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Yes, l received it - and promptly binned it .. worrying though - Substack is such an amazing place in so many ways where you can actually debate and exchange ideas with respect .. it would be truly horrific if the last place on the www became infected and unusable!

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A lot of this going round. But the message always comes down to "call me" or "contact me" or some nonsense. Always a link or #. And, obviously, you don't need to do that -- you're right here and can just reply on the comment thread.

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Yikes! That must mean you're over the target.

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Is there no safe place?

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Apparently not.

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You’re not the only one.

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Many are being attacked by bots.

Stay vigilant

They all have included a phone number.

Report and delete them

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These bots send a mobile number pretending to be the Substack author, it's phishing.

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SWINES!

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Shame on them.

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They have no concept of shame !

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Well done on this.

Look - anybody gives you a number easy to call is somebody to doubt and bots are about, so really folks - get a clue and don't respond to obvious attempts at what I wonder, but a bot is a bot and us humans can identify them quick - and then we got them if you know what I mean. I mean we own them when they are evident and easily captured!

Funny thing was I saw this bot at two places and the phone number was the same - seems like it would be easy to track them down and then - let them have it - bot death!

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This is a tech form of attack that amounts to Denial of Service. It is waged by one Big Tech company against another, a company with weaker AI filters. Substack had better solve the problem before it becomes irrelevant.

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Dr Tess thank you for acknowledging you are aware of this. I received 3 messages from ‘you’ over night, all sent at different times and with slightly different wording. ATROCIOUS grammar. Knew it was most definitely NOT from you! ☺️

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I think this a strategy used across a lot of platforms. Naomi Wolf had a fake account, but, outside of the MFM, it also happened to Malcolm Guite, who is an Anglican poet and priest bringing hope to Christians. I've noticed in youtube comments, when trolls or bot farms or chat farms are commenting, there is often bad grammar, either for authenticity or because the trolls' first language isn't English. There's often an appeal to authority (credentials) and terms thrown around like word salad, like "anecdotal" and lots of ad hominem personal attacks. This all may reflect a macrocosmic attempt to cling to the narrative and the amplifying of hate and fear in response to Twitter now being flooded with what has been censored over years. There may be shenanigans going on at a meta level with fostered infighting and controlled calls for unity, but I don't think any of that matters, if we just don't fall prey to it. From governments, it is often daycare emotional pseudo therapy talk, like Trudeau and Arden. All narcissistic emotion that seems like it is empathic, but is really manipulation. Whole human beings both think and feel, and take public stances that are measured, and not maudlin and at a toddler level of emoting. IMHO. We should expect more of this kind of shite.

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Thank you for this elaboration. You are well ahead of the curve and have helped to flesh out my understanding of this mischief.

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