I'd say the most common method is to use a worm that generates click-bait in popular channels.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Louis Huang <louis.huang@aegia.nu> wrote:

i dont get how one fishes on an IRC channel... can someone explain please?

On 2015-05-21 17:48, yar wrote:

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ryan <yandoryn@gmail.com> wrote:

I am extremely worried about fish vulnerabilities.

I wrote a fish penetration test, but it doesn't scale.