On 4/13/26 8:55 AM, Christoph Gysin wrote:
The account https://aur.archlinux.org/account/acarrasco is registered
using the email [email protected], which seems to be based on a
known fraudulent gmail account according to
https://blog.castle.io/fraudulent-email-domain-tracker-july-2025/.

Could we run a check against the AUR DB for package adoption, to check
if more packages have been snagged up by bots using generated email
aliases?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM Agustin Carrasco <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello!

I had originally created the 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hermes-agent-git package and then eventually 
disowned it, because I stopped using it and had no intention of maintaining it.

I still got notifications tho, and today I got notified of a comment, went to check it 
out of curiosity and noticed that a user "acarrasco" had picked it up.
The thing is, Agustin Carrasco is my name, which makes me really suspicious of 
this new maintainer; their user is also really new (same day I disowned it I 
think) and the mail doesn't match the username.

Honestly it looks like some kind of bot that picks up orphaned packages and 
create a user based on the previous maintainer name or something like that. 
Could be nothing but thought it was worth bringing it up.

Agustin.-

Hello,

Thanks for the report!
The account has been banned and the package will be orphaned so someone else can pick it up.

--
Regards,
Robin Candau / Antiz

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