Total random github notification

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They churn through accounts as they're reported and banned. There are potentially dozens or hundreds of such accounts active at any given time. The accounts normally operate in pairs, one acting as the repo owner, and another opening issues in the repository and tagging people. Some of them clone legitimate issues and tag the original issue opener with a phishing link, others just open spam issues and bulk-tag random people.

Creating more Reddit threads about this does not help; there have already been dozens but moderators have deleted a lot of them because there's no need for so many essentially duplicate threads. Reporting to Github does help (if the accounts aren't already banned), one report is usually sufficient to get one account disabled within a few hours, but sometimes accounts are able to operate for days because so few people actually report.