FOfortran77·Sep 2, 2021Submission
2 points · Open discussionMrStark-XD
Edu-Mail-Generator
Python2021–2021
MrStark-XD / Edu-Mail-Generator
Edu-Mail-Generator
This bot can make 20 different USA college edu mail automatically within 5min.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
116GitHub stars
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What it is
This bot can make 20 different USA college edu mail automatically within 5min.
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This week on Hacker News
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Observed mentions: 2021-09-01 17:37:09 UTC to 2021-09-02 02:03:35 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 1, 17:00 | 2021-09-01 17:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 1, 18:00 | 2021-09-01 18:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1, 19:00 | 2021-09-01 19:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 20:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1, 20:00 | 2021-09-01 20:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1, 21:00 | 2021-09-01 21:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 22:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1, 22:00 | 2021-09-01 22:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 23:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1, 23:00 | 2021-09-01 23:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2, 00:00 | 2021-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-02 01:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2, 01:00 | 2021-09-02 01:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-02 02:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2, 02:00 | 2021-09-02 02:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-02 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThe article seems very fuzzy around the difference between signing up vs. requesting financial aid
sentences like
> finding that 20% of recent traffic on its main portal for online applications was “malicious and bot-related,”
> the fake applications are roiling the ability of college officials to determine true student enrollment numbers
Fake enrollment is done, for another reason, to harvest .edu emails. There are websites that easily allow you to get such an address, that works to get some student perks (some websites giving student perks intentionally block certain community college domains, because they understood long ago the fraud going on). There are scripts to automate this (including DOB, they're complaining about 90 year olds signing up) on Github
The harvesters then go and sell the accounts on eBay openly
So I suspect this mig
Read the rest
ht be a subset of the fake sign ups, and they aren't really explaining how many of the suspected 20% bots actually officially filed for financial aid
Here is an example of such a Github repo
https://github.com/MrStark-XD/Edu-Mail-Generator
Use at your own risk, it literally just signs you up to community college with random information