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> Less then 10% of them have open issues with complaints - others look just fine.

I don't know why anyone running one of these schemes to distribute malware would even enable the issues tab on github, let alone not delete every issue posted containing keywords like malware, trojan, virus, etc. with a script.

Are hidden until approved issues not supported on github? Is this caused by some limitation of creating these repos programmatically?



These people are following a guide. They don’t know the details of GitHub.

They don’t care about people who know enough to check the issues. They’re fishing for the people who blindly download and run things, not who look under the hood.


Good point. I hadn't considered it might be intentional, like spam emails using poor grammar and appearing more scammy to select for easier marks.




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