So, explain this move to me:
We know it’s a scam of some kind, to the point a community has sprung up to discuss it. Why keep pushing the exact same scam? Is it working somehow?
Lately, I’m starting to believe that rather than any scam, this may be a harassment campaign. The target seems to be the person in the images.
That would be horrible and makes this more creepy than anything. I almost hope it’s a scam instead of targeted harassment. But now that you’ve said this I feel very uneasy that you may be right
Someone here recently did some digging and found some LinkedIn and Facebook accounts that seemed to be from a girl eerily similar to the one in the photos. Also, the Matrix server once leaked an address that seemed to be near the University in the messages.
This is almost certainly a harassment campaign.
Innovative way to go about that, I guess.
UPDATE: I got two more messages of the same type from Nicole, in like the past ten minutes.
@[email protected] I think you’d like tostay updated on the latest techniques from our friendly neighborhood scammer
Trying to play smart, lol. I’ve added a slur filter regex, that should delete all her messages. You still get it sent (limitation from lemmy :c) but it just appears as removed
uhhmm… yeah, about that:
Fuck. I guess it’s local only to our instance.
Oh well, feel free to convince your instance admin https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40120033
It looks like they’re using non-ASCII unicode characters. Does the linked method still work?
I just tested the slur regex method (only thing we use) and yep, still works.
it’s still sent though, but at least if they ever include a harmful link nobody gets to see it. So at most, it’s just a minor annoyance.
removed
Up here, i just pasted her entire message; but it appears as “removed”. It works :)
…why are you getting downvoted?
Wait, what? odd, i didn’t even notice. It doesn’t federate for me.
I don’t have a clue, maybe nicole got angry that i blocked her ;) (only for our community, though)
Edit: I think this community doesn’t federate properly with dbzer0 for some reason, even though i have been subscribed since its creation. My post only has 5 upvotes from here, while on LW it has like 28?
!!!
Guess that’s a reminder not to give much weight to those numbers
