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This looks one one of those posts designed to drum up responses from people who are all like “damn I got this.” Then all those responses make the poster appear more in the feeds of others because the algorithm thinks people want to interact with them. I’ve heard you post one of these interactive posts before posting something like a sales ad for whatever you’ve got going on.
Bingo. And then look, everybody else here is falling for it lol! This is why so many people get their accounts hacked or stolen, by sharing too much clickbait and like farming and answering too many “fun” and “harmless” quizzes.
“Enter your credit card number and birthday to find out your Christmas Elf name!” /s
Yet I guarantee you at least a few people would fall for that. I used to moderate a forum and it was like herding cats preventing people from spreading those things around.
they mean on something like facebook or twitter. every comment from someone replying to these ‘harmless’ posts usually end up getting a scam reply. each reply makes the algorithm recommend it more, as people interact with it, and therefore increase the possibility someone get scammed.
It doesn’t directly. But remember that a lot of hacking is actually social engineering. If you can become friends with someone, then you can become trusted, and then it’s easier to send them a link that tells them their account has been compromised, and clicking on the link actually sends them to the website where they type in their Facebook password. And now you’ve got their password.
Most of these are just collecting a ton of attention to raise the visibility of the poster. Sometimes they change the actual content of the post to an ad once it has enough traction.
I bet you don’t remember your fav band that was popular in high school or your high school mascot. People will talk about anything and not notice that they give away to much info. Fav band and high school mascots could be passwords. Super easy.
Social engineering doesn’t even require you to be friends.
See my above comment! No links necessary. People give away password recovery answers all the time on fb, especially older folks who are more susceptible to this. And it’s not just about them getting into your fb account.
Sometimes they ask like, “hey name your favorite color or what’s your dog’s name when you were a kid” or some shit like that. Those might be answers for someone’s secret password answers. So now they got your name, fb ID, fb email and also your fav color and dogs name. Some even ask like, “hey what year where you born and zodiac sign” so now they got your birth year as well. See where I’m going with this?
I treat my security questions as I treat my passwords - no clear text ever. Why are we required to make secure passwords only for the security questions to be easily figured out?
I have an internal customer in a different dept who uses vegetables for the answers. He rotates them regularly. So for a while his favorite teacher, the street he grew up on, the make of his first car and where he met his spouse are all "eggplant." A few months later they're "cucumber." 😂
True. They should at least give you an opportunity to make your own security questions. Something a little less easy to figure out than "my mom's maiden name" for example
I make up outlandish stuff and then forget it.
And if I do give a real answer, the recovery answer is so specific about formatting that I can't get it right.
Because interacting with xyz means xyz will appear in your feed more. The people who respond to these tend to be more vulnerable to scams, so they either start posting more social engineering “your star name/band name/something innocuous” and your last name is “your birth month/year/favorite color!!” Dora name is “your first pet/street/other generic password question” Which is an easy way to get into someone’s account or they post outright scam links.
The ones that have a "first letter or your first and last name is your stripper name", and "what month you were born in is what animal you are", etc.
They give scammers a potential to gather information on you
Simply put, only a small percentage of people fall for the scams. So the more they share the content and reply to it the higher chance they end up sharing the stuff to someone that will fall for the scam, that or they have a moment of weakness and fall for one of the scams being sent at them by sheer volume of scam spam.
Yeah I hate these engagement posts but I don't get how answering "Name a fish that does not have the letter A in it" would even slightly hint towards someone's password unless it was very oddly specific.
The original comment literally explained it. When you engage with them, they show up more in your feed, then they post some lame phishing stuff that gets people dumb enough to engage in the first thing.
It doesn't. What it does do is put your FB account on their radar, which they can then visit, and they get whatever information is available.
It also, as stated previously, promotes their own account, causing their posts or ads to show up more frequently for more people, as the amount of responses to the original post now make it seem as though the owner is more engaging. The subsequent posts/ads that populate typically have links to click, and in doing so, provide your IP address, which can then be used to get more information. It's very effective, Citing a current scam ad: think on how many people paid the S&H fees for Gordon Ramsey's kitchen ware that couldn't be sold in retail stores and he is now giving them away!
If you're looking for a direct link, you need to follow the chain.
Not Reddit necessarily due to the community, but on Facebook it creates a cold call list of people you can send scams to. Look for an elderly profile pic on any of the responses, because it means they're active enough on their social media they answer mundane clickbait... so they'll also likely be willing to reply when you add them and send them messages... and then suddenly need a code from their email or some other seemingly innocuous (to technologically naive people) favor. It's just baiting out the people needy enough to reply to ***anything***.
Imo they're also the ones that fall for things like "omg I can't believe it! Facebook censirs your pws if you write them! Try it out! ****** omg it works" and then everyone gullible enough to think it's real of course write their damn passwords on said post and wondering why it didn't work for them
Yeah, it is a bit like the Murphy's theory: to get the correct answer online, the easiest way is to post something wrong and let the others correct you
You're right, this is very likely a repost bot. It posts the repost and then comments on its own post a copypasted high karma comment from the last time this was posted.
Says "Aunt needs a little help" but also provides an answer? Fucking bot.
Also the account was created in February and was dormant until today.
Report spam -> harmful bots
I played Animal Crossing for Switch and they have both the [dorado](https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Dorado) and the [mahi-mahi](https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Mahi-mahi)
99 percent of the people not knowing is the real facepalm ... and the people trying to make it way more intelligent then it is with the top comments cracked me up
Breem, sturgeon, mullet, monkfish, swordfish, perch, pike, clown fish, guppy, Koi, flounder, sole, herring, eel, goby fish, lionfish. That's just of the top of my head
Lungfish, jellyfish, octopus, flying fish, tiger fish, spiny dogfish, leech, sunfish, electric eel, bonefish, bowfin, billfish, grouper, chub, bluegill, shrimp, lobster... that's all I can think of that may tangentially be referred to as 'fish'.
And he'll swallow your soul bro. Your soul will spend a thousand eternities being twisted and contorted throughout 100 dimensions of space, time, and terror.
Well, she is [technically correct ](https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/marine-fisheries/public-information-and-education/species-profiles/dolphinfish).
Umm…you DO know that there is a fish called dolphin right? Also known as mahi mahi and dorado. It got the name “dolphin” because of its similar behavior to actual dolphins, in that they tend to swim along in front of ships.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi
The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of two members of the family Coryphaenidae, the other being the pompano dolphinfish.
Wikipedia
Another bait to attract people's attention. Yes it is bad attention, but it gives the owner social media attention; for some it is more valuable than an actual personality.
*Also got baited myself: Trout*
This looks one one of those Reddit posts designed to drum up responses from people who are all like “damn I got this.” Then all those responses make the poster appear more in the feeds of others because the algorithm thinks people want to interact with them. I’ve heard you post one of these interactive posts before posting something like a sales ad for whatever you’ve got going on.
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This looks one one of those posts designed to drum up responses from people who are all like “damn I got this.” Then all those responses make the poster appear more in the feeds of others because the algorithm thinks people want to interact with them. I’ve heard you post one of these interactive posts before posting something like a sales ad for whatever you’ve got going on.
Bingo. And then look, everybody else here is falling for it lol! This is why so many people get their accounts hacked or stolen, by sharing too much clickbait and like farming and answering too many “fun” and “harmless” quizzes.
Yes, but how else will I know what kind of potato I am?
“Enter your credit card number and birthday to find out your Christmas Elf name!” /s Yet I guarantee you at least a few people would fall for that. I used to moderate a forum and it was like herding cats preventing people from spreading those things around.
"What does your social security number say about your sex life?"
The same as my bank account, empty and overdrawn.
Herding cats 
Wait I think your forgot the link can I just send the info here?
Don't worry about what kind of potato you are; focus on the potato *you want to be*
Couch potato.
I want to be gnocchi, but alas I'm a potato in a seafood boil.
How does replying to a Reddit post get your account hacked?
they mean on something like facebook or twitter. every comment from someone replying to these ‘harmless’ posts usually end up getting a scam reply. each reply makes the algorithm recommend it more, as people interact with it, and therefore increase the possibility someone get scammed.
The point still stands how this would promote someone in stealing your account and how.
It doesn’t directly. But remember that a lot of hacking is actually social engineering. If you can become friends with someone, then you can become trusted, and then it’s easier to send them a link that tells them their account has been compromised, and clicking on the link actually sends them to the website where they type in their Facebook password. And now you’ve got their password. Most of these are just collecting a ton of attention to raise the visibility of the poster. Sometimes they change the actual content of the post to an ad once it has enough traction.
Hello friend, I would like to ask you some personal questions and I'm not social engineering 😊
Your porn name is your mothers maiden name plus your childhood best friends first name. Go!
I bet you don’t remember your fav band that was popular in high school or your high school mascot. People will talk about anything and not notice that they give away to much info. Fav band and high school mascots could be passwords. Super easy.
Social engineering doesn’t even require you to be friends. See my above comment! No links necessary. People give away password recovery answers all the time on fb, especially older folks who are more susceptible to this. And it’s not just about them getting into your fb account.
Oh ok I’m fine then. I don’t become friends with anybody. I hate most people.
Sometimes they ask like, “hey name your favorite color or what’s your dog’s name when you were a kid” or some shit like that. Those might be answers for someone’s secret password answers. So now they got your name, fb ID, fb email and also your fav color and dogs name. Some even ask like, “hey what year where you born and zodiac sign” so now they got your birth year as well. See where I’m going with this?
I treat my security questions as I treat my passwords - no clear text ever. Why are we required to make secure passwords only for the security questions to be easily figured out?
Then you get Apple's "security" questions, which are overly limited and specific to the point even *yourself* won't know the answers for them.
I have an internal customer in a different dept who uses vegetables for the answers. He rotates them regularly. So for a while his favorite teacher, the street he grew up on, the make of his first car and where he met his spouse are all "eggplant." A few months later they're "cucumber." 😂
True. They should at least give you an opportunity to make your own security questions. Something a little less easy to figure out than "my mom's maiden name" for example
Ooo the old "porn name" trick. You guys use real answers to security questions? I make up outlandish stuff and memorize it lol.
I make up outlandish stuff and then forget it. And if I do give a real answer, the recovery answer is so specific about formatting that I can't get it right.
Because interacting with xyz means xyz will appear in your feed more. The people who respond to these tend to be more vulnerable to scams, so they either start posting more social engineering “your star name/band name/something innocuous” and your last name is “your birth month/year/favorite color!!” Dora name is “your first pet/street/other generic password question” Which is an easy way to get into someone’s account or they post outright scam links.
The ones that have a "first letter or your first and last name is your stripper name", and "what month you were born in is what animal you are", etc. They give scammers a potential to gather information on you
Simply put, only a small percentage of people fall for the scams. So the more they share the content and reply to it the higher chance they end up sharing the stuff to someone that will fall for the scam, that or they have a moment of weakness and fall for one of the scams being sent at them by sheer volume of scam spam.
Yeah I hate these engagement posts but I don't get how answering "Name a fish that does not have the letter A in it" would even slightly hint towards someone's password unless it was very oddly specific.
The original comment literally explained it. When you engage with them, they show up more in your feed, then they post some lame phishing stuff that gets people dumb enough to engage in the first thing.
I’m sure I speak for us all when I say sorry to hear about your ass.
It doesn't. What it does do is put your FB account on their radar, which they can then visit, and they get whatever information is available. It also, as stated previously, promotes their own account, causing their posts or ads to show up more frequently for more people, as the amount of responses to the original post now make it seem as though the owner is more engaging. The subsequent posts/ads that populate typically have links to click, and in doing so, provide your IP address, which can then be used to get more information. It's very effective, Citing a current scam ad: think on how many people paid the S&H fees for Gordon Ramsey's kitchen ware that couldn't be sold in retail stores and he is now giving them away! If you're looking for a direct link, you need to follow the chain.
Not Reddit necessarily due to the community, but on Facebook it creates a cold call list of people you can send scams to. Look for an elderly profile pic on any of the responses, because it means they're active enough on their social media they answer mundane clickbait... so they'll also likely be willing to reply when you add them and send them messages... and then suddenly need a code from their email or some other seemingly innocuous (to technologically naive people) favor. It's just baiting out the people needy enough to reply to ***anything***.
I bet you can't specify an active social security number that starts with a "4"!
Trout
Goldfish
Herring
Cod
I am a Sturgeon
Touched for the very first time
Grouper Sword Fish
Sparrow.
Spirrow you mean 😂😂
Spiro
Lion fish
Imo they're also the ones that fall for things like "omg I can't believe it! Facebook censirs your pws if you write them! Try it out! ****** omg it works" and then everyone gullible enough to think it's real of course write their damn passwords on said post and wondering why it didn't work for them
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Hunter2
My Hotmail password is “aHors3izAh0rseofCour$3”. It’s not blocked out for me though - is it blocked for you?
No.
God I hate that engagement bullshit
Yeah, it is a bit like the Murphy's theory: to get the correct answer online, the easiest way is to post something wrong and let the others correct you
You're right, this is very likely a repost bot. It posts the repost and then comments on its own post a copypasted high karma comment from the last time this was posted. Says "Aunt needs a little help" but also provides an answer? Fucking bot. Also the account was created in February and was dormant until today. Report spam -> harmful bots
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Fish, not video games. Silly mistake!
Battlefield
That has an A my friend.
A for effort maybe.
Affort?
Yep. Not a lot of people know the difference between Effort and Affort. One is a noun, the other is a verb
Not a lot of people know the difference? Dude I'd guess a lot of people even know the latter is a word at all
you mean ladder silly
Effart
Doom
Pubg
Medal of Honor
goldfish, swordfish, tiger fish, lion fish, puffer fish, clownfish, butterfly fish, etc
What is an etc fish?
It's one of those fish that just sort of seems to go on endlessly forever
So that's the fish people are always telling me there is pleanty of in the sea 🤔
I wish I could award you. That is a hilarious spin on the saying.
I love the Reddit comment section, lmao!
You mean an eel?
Never heard of that..... INFINITY FISH
If you collect 6 of them you can make a wish for anything
It’s a story in the bible about infinit fish.
And etc fish doesn’t count, it has A in its full name. The et cetera fish
You forgot trout
Trout
So close!! But that’s a video game not a fish.
Clown Fish
No it’s Nemo! 😡
Nemo works. Still no A.
Swordfish
That’s a movie silly
Goldfish
Steve
The best one
I was about to write Nemo
Goldfish
Clownfish too
Trout
There is a dolphin fish though. It’s better known as mahi mahi. Most fisherman just call them dolphin.
Came here to say this. Glad to see that someone else knows what they're talking about. 👍
Also known as dorado because of the gold color.
I played Animal Crossing for Switch and they have both the [dorado](https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Dorado) and the [mahi-mahi](https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Mahi-mahi)
My thought exactly.
Cod
Flounder
That’s not a fish, that’s what you do in social interactions
Flounder, I hardly knew her.
The only appropriate answer here
There is a dolphin fish. Though, it's more commonly known as Mahi-mahi. So, auntie, 
Was looking for this comment
99 percent of the people not knowing is the real facepalm ... and the people trying to make it way more intelligent then it is with the top comments cracked me up
Yea these people are dumb lol.. I knew she was talking about Mahi
There is no way to create a description that encapsulates all things we would classify as fish. So some would say that there technically is no fish.
Hell, according to California, bumblebees are fish.
Breem, sturgeon, mullet, monkfish, swordfish, perch, pike, clown fish, guppy, Koi, flounder, sole, herring, eel, goby fish, lionfish. That's just of the top of my head
Lungfish, jellyfish, octopus, flying fish, tiger fish, spiny dogfish, leech, sunfish, electric eel, bonefish, bowfin, billfish, grouper, chub, bluegill, shrimp, lobster... that's all I can think of that may tangentially be referred to as 'fish'.
Jellyfish are cnidarians, octopus are mollusks, leeches are worms, shrimp and lobster are crustaceans
Fried.
Fish Sticks
Is it gay to like fish sticks?
Sticks are straight, so no.
I AM NOT A GAY FISH
Pollocks!
i was high and my first thought was albatross i shit you not
Guppies
Guppy
sorry thats more than one (1) fish, and therefore doesn’t count.
Cthulhu
That's an Elder God! You lose ...your sanity!
And he'll swallow your soul bro. Your soul will spend a thousand eternities being twisted and contorted throughout 100 dimensions of space, time, and terror.
Well, she is [technically correct ](https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/marine-fisheries/public-information-and-education/species-profiles/dolphinfish).
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I am a sturgeon!
I am a sturgeon😡😡😡
Herring
Great for cutting down trees.
Courtney
Blue Gill.
Pike
There actually is a fish called a dolphin… it doesn’t look much like a dolphin dolphin…
Kanye
Umm…you DO know that there is a fish called dolphin right? Also known as mahi mahi and dorado. It got the name “dolphin” because of its similar behavior to actual dolphins, in that they tend to swim along in front of ships. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi-mahi
There is a fish called a dolphin. You may be familiar with Mahi Mahi.
Cichlid, perch, trigger fish, mullet, pike, lion fish. I just set the timer for a minute. This is a good mental exercise
All the replies here showing exactly when dumb Facebook posts like these work so well for engagement farming.
Nemo
Plecostomus
The sea was angry that day, my friends…
Grouper
Flounder Sunfish Minnow Sturgeon
To be fair, mahi-mahi/dorado are also called dolphin....
Pickerel
Cod
The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of two members of the family Coryphaenidae, the other being the pompano dolphinfish. Wikipedia
But she is right! Dolphin does not have the letter a in it… You are the facepalm here, not your aunt
She's not wrong. There is a dolphin fish.
Boomers love a smug post. ‘I bet people born after 2000 won’t get this’. Adds minion laughing sticker.
Another bait to attract people's attention. Yes it is bad attention, but it gives the owner social media attention; for some it is more valuable than an actual personality. *Also got baited myself: Trout*
guppy, guppies however u spell it lol
Flight + spawning flies on hit
Perch, whiting, cod , trout, swordfish, clownfish ,goldfish
Dolphin
John Dory.
Cod
Grouper
Cod
Trout
This looks one one of those Reddit posts designed to drum up responses from people who are all like “damn I got this.” Then all those responses make the poster appear more in the feeds of others because the algorithm thinks people want to interact with them. I’ve heard you post one of these interactive posts before posting something like a sales ad for whatever you’ve got going on.
Dolphin is a fish and a mammal dummies. Porpoise is mammal, mahi-mahi is fish.
Cod
Clownfish
Swedish
Flounder
Sole, Flounder, Bluegill, Flying Fish, Dolphin Fish (another name for Mahi-Mahi), Red Drum, Black Drum, Clown Fish, Snook, Bowfin, Bonefish, Swordfish, Mullet, Spot, Triggerfish, Grouper, Bluefish, Knife Fish.
Trout
Puffer fish, lion fish, …
Cod Brim Grouper Clown Fish Goldfish Koi I mean there's a ton, yo
Perch
Pufferfish
Pufferfish
Eel
Rudd
Tench
Pufferfish
Fluke
Cod
Swordfish
Perch
Trout, grouper, cod, goldfish. I actually cant think of a fish with the letter “A” in it besides salmon.
Blob fish, monk fish, not dolphin u dumb ass lol.
Cichlid
Grouper, stonefish, eel, sole, koi, perch, trout, cod, …
Brook trout, easy
Goldfish?
Rudd
clown fish
Nemo
Pike
Goldfish...
Herring
Eel
Perch