Have you ever seen this before?

Spam bots are now making accounts on Fluther, and giving links to what they’re selling.

Mattresses!
(safe link, just leads to the user profile)

As much as I love soft, big puffy comfy mattresses…is this something new on Fluther? Spam bots making accounts with links in their profile to what they’re selling? I’ve seen this countless times on message boards and forums years ago, so in a way I’m not very surprised. And I know that on here, we sometimes have ’‘users’’ that spam others with PM’s of ever lasting love and crap, then you need to e-mail them. But this guy has a relevant picture up!! And a link to an actual business.

Is this new on here? Never seen that here before. Any way at all to put a stop to this? I remember some horror movie and video game forums I was at, where these kinds of spam bots appeared en masse each day. Moderators had to work like mad to cancel the accounts and erase all the posts they made. It was an epidemic on a few places I’ve been to. Is this going to happen here? is it the end of the world?

Or maybe this is an actual user?