we are totally real people with stolen photos and identical biographiesAs Bluesky approaches the 30 million user mark, operators of services that sell bogus social media engagement have been escalating their attempts to take advantage of the relatively new platform’s increasing popularity. Purveyors of bogus follows, likes, and shares require large armies of accounts in order to ply their trade, and these accounts can often be detected by their behavior. In this article, we’ll take a look at a network of fake Bluesky accounts associated with a service that sells followers for X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Telegram, as well as Bluesky itself. most of the accounts were created in large batches in mid-December 2024This fake follower network, which was flagged at several points by the firehose monitoring process described in this previous article, consists of (at least) 8070 Bluesky accounts created between November 30th and December 30th, 2024, mostly in large batches in mid-December. Thus far, none of the accounts in this network has posted anything, although a few have reposted other accounts’ posts on occasion. Most follow somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen accounts.the spam accounts have repetitive Portuguese biographiesAlmost all of accounts’ biographies are in Brazilian Portuguese; a handful of accounts have biographies consisting of brief strings of emoji instead. Many of the biographies used by the network are repeated verbatim across dozens of accounts. The biographies are very similar in style, making frequent references to the alleged occupations and astrological signs of the fake accounts….Selling followers where the skies are blue