Tell HN: Hanzo AI Is Spamming From GitHub Contributions

5 points by toomuchtodo a day ago

Email received:

Hey $name,

Wanted to invite you to the Hanzo beta — we're looking for top open-source devs to help us shape the future of agentic AI.

Join the beta: https://hanzo[.]app/beta

I was checking out your open-source work on s3tools/s3cmd (especially what you've been building with Open-Source AI / ML) — really impressive engineering. We've been exploring autonomous decision systems and tool-use agents and would love your input.

Let me know if you'd like to hop on a quick call, we're trying to speak with as many builders as we can: https://cal[.]com/antje-worring

Warmly, Antje Worring Co-CEO, Hanzo AI

GitHub: https://github[.]com/zooqueen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin[.]com/in/antje-worring/

Hanzo AI, Inc. · 1 Ferry Building, Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94111 Unsubscribe: https://hanzo[.]app/unsubscribe Reply 'stop' to opt out

(I have not participated in the repo in question in over a decade)

jonathanlydall 7 hours ago

Saw one of these in my Gmail's junk folder this morning.

The "unsubscribe" link in the email also doesn't work.

greatgib 4 hours ago

Thank you for having posted that!

I got one and was also suspicious but wondering why there was hundred of variations of official website and related but no one talking about them, about that!

Looks like that they scoot the current post to downvote comments posted with useful link exposing them.

Btw I recommend that you go to the "zooqueen" website from the link in the github page. it is totally surreal!

All of that is so elaborate that I'm really wondering if it is just a case of 3 teenagers in a garage doing a elaborate scam to try to get traction just by copying existing things or if it could be something like a NK or russian deep cover operation to breach important open source developers key/accounts.

So far their tools looks like not to have malware based on the other link author, but nothing says that they can't do a targeted update or profit of the sent LLM content to have everything needed for their evil purpose.