So I’m doing a giveaway for my niche market in their facebook group, and it was going along nicely.
Then in a matter of two hours I went from ~100 entries to over 3000, all of the unconfirmed emails that end in icloud with EXACTLY 27 items done off of the way to get extra entries.
This stressed me out like you wouldn’t believe because I don’t want bots to win the prize I intended for my Reverse Harem folks!
I reached out to the host, King Sumo, and it looks like if they don’t confirm their email, they don’t qualify to win. So they automatically weed out that way, and they caught onto the bots after I reached out to them and shut it down, so now I’m getting valid entries again.
But this was super stressful and frustrating.
I’m not linking the giveaway here because it’s FOR that FB group, and I haven’t advertised it anywhere but that group, so I have no idea how the bots found it.
So stressed.
Image is Midjourney AI reacting to the prompt ‘Bots Crashed my King Sumo Giveaway!’
