is this coincidence or a sign?

feverish and forsaken. on my second glass of mulled wine. never kill yourself

The past couple of weeks have seen the rise what is best described as AIS “trolling” with signals appearing with fictious names such as the supposedly US-flagged Jersey Devil 404, Opium Cargo, and Dead Wallet Crew. The tracks of many these vessels are erratic and clearly false. Unlike AIS spoofing the manipulation of vessel identities does not appear to be done for practical reasons such as masking a voyage or evading sanctions, and it is unclear who is behind the manipulation or why. Arsenio Longo, Founder of Huax maritime intelligence platform, who has been monitoring the trend, explained to Seatrade Maritime News, “Some cases seem to involve real, registry-resolvable vessel tracks where individual AIS fields, such as destination, display name or voyage information, have been polluted with provocative text. Other cases look closer to synthetic contacts, meaning targets that appear on the AIS map but do not clearly correspond to a verifiable physical vessel.”