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Fake Engagement Alert for luongnv89/claude-howto

phantomstars has detected a likely fake star/fork campaign targeting this repository.

Scan date: 2026-06-09

Summary

Metric Value
Engagers scanned (24 h window) 292
Likely fake 8 (2.7%)
Suspicious 54
Previously seen likely fake 3 (1.0%)
Repeat offenders 0
Allowlisted accounts excluded 0
Campaigns detected 1
Analysis mode recent
Discovery sources github_trending
Event coverage capped by the recent-events API limit (300 events)
Repo classification clean

Campaigns

Campaign ID Members
c-9183d0a1 62

Suspect accounts

Account Created Score Classification Campaign
fg4gy8yscf-ai 2026-06-08 0.845 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
kaixinxiaobaike-wq 2026-06-07 0.845 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
hanx-kk 2026-06-08 0.845 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
tradinggains5018 2026-06-03 0.840 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
Kgill0021 2026-06-08 0.815 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
vc7ttv45yr-coder 2026-06-06 0.810 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
tpc072286-netizen 2026-06-06 0.810 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
ahaooo1324-dev 2026-05-11 0.768 likely_fake c-9183d0a1
courtawaytaylor181-debug 2026-06-06 0.720 suspicious c-9183d0a1
0788lance-lab 2026-05-16 0.718 suspicious c-9183d0a1
Hackd-AI 2026-06-05 0.690 suspicious c-9183d0a1
iamfrivolous-sketch 2026-05-26 0.688 suspicious c-9183d0a1
g7738858 2026-04-06 0.675 suspicious c-9183d0a1
fleshhprisonn 2026-05-23 0.657 suspicious c-9183d0a1
scotthan-design 2026-04-18 0.645 suspicious c-9183d0a1
brewtal71 2026-04-19 0.645 suspicious c-9183d0a1
atheria-tech 2026-03-13 0.645 suspicious c-9183d0a1
cozyfashionwear 2026-03-17 0.645 suspicious c-9183d0a1
jordan-sectu 2026-05-08 0.645 suspicious c-9183d0a1
HotGirlLo 2026-05-25 0.627 suspicious c-9183d0a1
CuriousSarah 2026-05-13 0.627 suspicious c-9183d0a1
dbell1439-afk 2026-06-08 0.620 suspicious c-9183d0a1
cady1102 2024-01-13 0.605 suspicious c-9183d0a1
darwinsg04-rgb 2026-03-31 0.595 suspicious c-9183d0a1
cantuma 2026-04-16 0.590 suspicious c-9183d0a1
taodao1983 2019-05-19 0.585 suspicious c-9183d0a1
kcyh12138 2021-04-24 0.585 suspicious c-9183d0a1
yeyuan148 2023-01-04 0.575 suspicious c-9183d0a1
iRedShift 2025-03-04 0.575 suspicious c-9183d0a1
Xjljk 2020-05-24 0.575 suspicious c-9183d0a1

Showing top 30 of 62 suspects by composite score.


All findings are probabilistic indicators, not accusations. False positives exist.
Individual accounts should be treated as suspicious signals, not confirmed fake actors.
Repo-level counts in this report exclude accounts present on the current false-positive allowlist.

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Activity

  1. luongnv89 commented on Jun 9, 2026

    @luongnv89
    Owner

    is this even a thing?

  2. tg12 commented on Jun 10, 2026

    @tg12
    Author

    Yeah given the ratios though your repo is popular its bound to attract attention.

  3. luongnv89 commented on Jun 10, 2026

    @luongnv89
    Owner

    what is their (attacker) objective here?
    (tbh, i have rejected a lots of DM on X about pump or crypto things which is not in my interest, not sure if it is something related)

  4. tg12 commented on Jun 11, 2026

    @tg12
    Author

    Scan update: 2026-06-11

    Metric Value
    Engagers scanned (24 h window) 293
    Likely fake 10 (3.4%)
    Suspicious 67
    Previously seen likely fake 0 (0.0%)
    Repeat offenders 0
    Allowlisted accounts excluded 0
    Campaigns 1
    Discovery sources github_trending
    Event coverage capped by the recent-events API limit (300 events)
    Account Created Score Classification Campaign
    Nikko615 2026-06-10 0.845 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    rickey910216 2026-06-04 0.840 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    B6055057-CaraPeng 2026-06-09 0.810 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    roibin4business 2026-06-07 0.810 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    SHEN08054 2026-05-16 0.798 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    KVreeland 2026-05-19 0.768 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    k0zinak643 2026-05-25 0.768 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    mugenkanoseii 2026-05-15 0.768 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    bizznezz1s-png 2026-05-21 0.768 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    kherlihy1 2026-05-12 0.768 likely_fake c-89cbca28
    Drake0610 2026-05-15 0.718 suspicious c-89cbca28
    mhyman135 2026-05-23 0.713 suspicious c-89cbca28
    pw029029-pixel 2026-04-22 0.645 suspicious c-89cbca28
    bhargav7sr2-ui 2026-05-09 0.645 suspicious c-89cbca28
    imjustm3 2026-05-05 0.645 suspicious c-89cbca28
    zoranbarbich-gif 2026-04-30 0.645 suspicious c-89cbca28
    liangdada97 2026-04-16 0.645 suspicious c-89cbca28
    suzusho-hub 2026-04-16 0.645 suspicious c-89cbca28
    sameeno101 2026-06-10 0.620 suspicious c-89cbca28
    pluc-lc 2026-06-10 0.620 suspicious c-89cbca28
    sethg2003 2025-05-21 0.605 suspicious c-89cbca28
    John2000-bin 2026-04-26 0.600 suspicious c-89cbca28
    tiscott-bai 2026-03-27 0.595 suspicious c-89cbca28
    matias1941 2020-04-27 0.585 suspicious c-89cbca28
    nightmareWu 2019-04-03 0.575 suspicious c-89cbca28
    sghomk 2014-11-17 0.575 suspicious c-89cbca28
    Mathieufie 2024-04-30 0.575 suspicious c-89cbca28
    kopisusudev 2020-03-05 0.575 suspicious c-89cbca28
    unclelao 2024-11-01 0.575 suspicious c-89cbca28
    euntaek-hong 2023-02-11 0.575 suspicious c-89cbca28

    Showing top 30 of 77 suspects by composite score.

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