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Judging by the names in the screenshots and linked github profiles it sounds like a lot of spammers are Indian students.

Thousands of students are all trying to get a low effort contribution in to have an extra line of "experience" on their resume and a T-Shirt from a western Silicon Valley company as signaling? Judging by the poor quality of the contributions, and the fact it's on GitHub, maybe folks studying IT?

That type of academic spam isn't new sadly [0].

[0] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41687/what-is-b...

parent 908B64B197 6 years ago

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