Reposting from bsky. I found my information on this scam website too with my info scraped from bsky and mastodon. Sent them an email to remove it. You may want to check if they listed you as well.
https://bsky.app/profile/zappshot.live/post/3mze7n37mjc2o
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@emma @anyachalina What? Oh, cripes.
Is there a way I can get off of this without revealing even MORE PII to this company (e.g.: my email address)?
@emma appreciate the heads up, though I've been added to sites like this for over a decade at this point and probably to my detriment have accepted it as a cost of being alive in the 21st century
@anyachalina @misnina I have the feeling they're using the removal process to gather more information. Confirming which account is connected to which email, whether they're active, or who's likely to react to a future fear-based phishing attempt.
Either ignore this or report them to their host to get them taken off the internet entirely.
@anyachalina they only require a username and the email can be whatever public presence email you have up (since this assumes influencers who take deals would be contactable by a public email) so it's not tooo much of a phish. still fucked up regardless, and should be reported to domain as well
@misnina @anyachalina I saw the form. I saw the email response (from someone else). I saw the suspicious link you click in said email. I also heard a the form is no longer enough and they want you to "sign up" first?
My recommendation stands.
@copygirl @misnina @anyachalina I see now it requires you to log in to request a removal. I guess they have had a lot of people making this request and so they think forcing someone to make an account is the way forward. So is it on bluesky, should it be reported there as a scam site? Or can it be blocked from picking data off fedi?
@anyachalina thanks for the heads-up! I am small enough to not be on there, but I searched a few names and found that a lot of the more well-known people I follow have had their profiles scraped: @darius @mcc @ghoulpus @molly0xfff @josephcox, this socialdb.xyz site has scraped your profiles to sell sponsored posts on your behalf (presumably without your consent) so I figured you might want a heads-up. See above post ⬆️