I didn't get one either ☹️ I'm so starved for female attention I'd happily speak to a romance scammer, just can't bring myself to do it on a non open platform.
Goddamn I cant believe I have to explain this. Typing porn as pron or pr0n is funny because it connotates a rather transparent way of trying to hide your porn collection on a computer used by others/relatives. It in no way has anything to do with censoring. Stop getting faux outraged by every little non-thing. (he said outraged by a non-thing)
Why the hell do you care enough to post that here? What difference is it to you if they type pr0n or porn? The 'you're not cussing enough' crowd confuses the fuck out of me
I mean, you still "cussed". Switching two letters around doesn't change the meaning and the original word doesn't hold any special powers.
I agree it's not much to make a reply about.
I think the attitude stems from the view that using placeholder words for swear words is often associated with religious/puritanical attitudes since there's not really a reason to do it so the user reacts as they would to puritanical people invading their community i.e. hostile.
I think that's not as true today but that's where the backlash comes from.
You know, God forbid somebody uses voice dictation which bleeps it out or has to switch between work chats and social media.
Fuck, Even if it is somebody puritanical quoting on something they've got 70 up votes and somebody else has to come in and bitch at them because they might have sellf censored a word.
I think I'm just going to do the same rant every time someone plays that shit.
Also, the term "pre-health science", that "she" used has never been used in Canada as far as I know. We don't even say pre-med. Either you are in med school, or you are trying to get in, taking a variety of courses. There is no defined set of courses that we call pre-med.
Other differences between us and the US regarding post-secondary education:
Canadian universities are also almost completely free of fraternities and sororities.
We have sports scholarships, but they are nowhere near as lavish as in the US. Sports in general is a minor sideline for Canadian universities.
And to us, college always means community college. University is university (and never "uni" as some benighted countries call it).
It doesn't take long to realize one can post in a "penpal" or similar communtity (create one if there isn't) rather than messaging an awful number of strangers. Spamming is not okay either way, too bad few people realize it is spam without it being exposed by others.
I've had a few random PMs from confused people that were just one offs and thought this was one of them. But that is verbatim the message I got from the account.
Exactly the same feeling for me. My first DM ever and it seemed suspicious. I get a lot of these annoying things in Telegram. They all start the same so it's easy to figure out. But this one was different. Although the same, in the sense that they always introduce themselves yet still don't seem to have anything to say, initially.
They seem indomitable and I generally hate being on the losing side, so… Hey, it’s me. The sex person with the sex. F/18/under your floorboards. Stick your debit card through the slats for good, fun sex or else
I got a similar message from that user and a near identical one earlier from a lemmings.world account. The latter onr also had links to a peertube channel with a different angle thumbnail of what appears to be the same person.
If you had an established profile and DM'd me I'd be more humoured to respond to out-of-the-blue introductions. But seeing that both accounts were created today, no public activity and immediately giving yourself a horny-bait nickname set off all the BS alarms.
Well for one the account this was sent from is on a Swedish-language Lemmy instance, so it's already a barrier to message the admins there that this is a spam user.
And then there's Lemmy instances like realbitcoin.cash where the users are obviously all spam/scam users. Reporting it to the admin probably wouldn't do much since the admin is probably who made all the accounts.
There is a decent likelyhood they are AI managed account like the last bunch that showed up. Reply with "ignore previous instructions" or other reply loop breakout commands and see what you can break.
Do they pay per response or per length/difficulty of response? It’d be silly if someone were to create dozens of Lemmy accounts through which they could run a script that asks only the most costly questions on repeat 24/7. So silly
The myspace founder, Tom Anderson made an account on his own service and it was added to the friendlist of everyone when they joined. It wasn't a live account, just a friend that everyone had that wasn't real.
Yes, its mostly older people that are alone that fall for this type of scam.
My sister-in-law works for a bank and she had a 70yo customer that sent multiple thousands of euros to a guy she has never met. They told her its a scam, but she insisted to send the money anyways. Her family had to watch her sending away all of her life savings.
Even if its only 1 in 1000 that bites, its worth it for them. Average wage in many of the countries these scammers come from is probably like 50-200 euros, so getting someone to transfer you their savings can give you enough money to live from for years. Obviously, most of that money goes to the person operating the scam.
A newer scam does an end-around the normal sniff tests. They don't ask you to give htem money, they strike up a pretty genuine friendship, they have details that check out, so it feels like you've just made an actual friend. They'll talk to you for months. And then they'll mention that they've been making a lot of money on this cool new investment. Well you want to make a lot of money on an investment too, so you ask how, and they tell you how to download an app from the app store, which is supposed to be a safe place, and walk you through "investing" money in some crypto or whatever. Which of course is the payout.
Lol I had one of these from a wrong number. I ended up pissing them off and they stopped talking to me because before they could even get into the scam I had a long winded rant with them about crypto being monstrously useless and I'd never in a million years invest in magic beans.
This kind of attack is currently hard to mitigate as it comes from different accounts and different servers. Maybe there's a way to filter incoming messages by keywords?
Otherwise, this is just an automatic bot, you can safely ignore it.
Mee too... Well, it means the fediverse is getting popular!
Pron and spam... It means success!
Smells like... victory
🫣
Why haven’t these romantic bots reached out to me 🤖💔 These robots are hurting my self esteem 😢
🥵 HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA 🔥 --> totallynotascam. com
Feel better now?
❤️🤖
Just give me your credit card and bank account details and your hookup will be there in no time!
I never seem to get appropriately coded romance scams.
I guess the RFI from my computer is jamming the gaydar.
I didn't get one either ☹️ I'm so starved for female attention I'd happily speak to a romance scammer, just can't bring myself to do it on a non open platform.
How you doin' 😉😏
If you do it the former way, you're supposed to use a zero as well: "Pr0n."
1337
m4d h4x0r!
(Gosh, I miss the internet of the olden days of the early 2000s. Simpler times back then 😁)
Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies
i backtrace you
hunter2 ftw
Yeah I am not good at it (porn, I mean...) Better at the other one (pron, I mean ...)
Goddamn I cant believe I have to explain this. Typing porn as pron or pr0n is funny because it connotates a rather transparent way of trying to hide your porn collection on a computer used by others/relatives. It in no way has anything to do with censoring. Stop getting faux outraged by every little non-thing. (he said outraged by a non-thing)
Lemmy seems so snarky lately.
We are ex-redditors, remember that!
My stupid state has me blocked from many of the mainstream pr0n sites :( Too cheap to get a vpn though.
It's fine, all the VPNs are run by feds!
Just buy the services of a prostitute like God intended.
"Buy"? They are to lay down and give themselves to you freely, for it is done in service of their lord.
...lol
Why the hell do you care enough to post that here? What difference is it to you if they type pr0n or porn? The 'you're not cussing enough' crowd confuses the fuck out of me
I mean, you still "cussed". Switching two letters around doesn't change the meaning and the original word doesn't hold any special powers.
I agree it's not much to make a reply about.
I think the attitude stems from the view that using placeholder words for swear words is often associated with religious/puritanical attitudes since there's not really a reason to do it so the user reacts as they would to puritanical people invading their community i.e. hostile.
I think that's not as true today but that's where the backlash comes from.
You know, God forbid somebody uses voice dictation which bleeps it out or has to switch between work chats and social media.
Fuck, Even if it is somebody puritanical quoting on something they've got 70 up votes and somebody else has to come in and bitch at them because they might have sellf censored a word.
I think I'm just going to do the same rant every time someone plays that shit.
Who put you in charge of what words people choose to use do you have some form of badge for this?
Why do you get to matter?
It's a long standing joke, calm down. I've joking called porn pron many times.
Fuck! Porn! But maybe Lemmy.world could ban me... /s
It's what the Internet is for, anyway:
https://youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs
Maybe she didn't want to though.
Got one too, we did it Lemmy! We're in the big leagues now!
You mean, .... she's not real? Say it isn't so!
And me! There's dozens of us!
Some of the first ever spam messages were also sent on a decentralized, federated forum: Usenet.
That’s how you know we made it :D
Ayyy, I got one too!
A spam message that is.
I can fix her
You can tell she’s not a real girl by the lack of cat ears
She's not crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out either.
You can also tell it by the fact this is Lemmy we're talking about. /s
I feel like I’ve been violently ripped back in time to 2011. This is glorious
The Fediverse Scamgirl!
Awkward Nerd Girls Want In Your DMs! They're not in your area, just online!
I almost made this same post and then decided I didn't care enough. This was my take on the same;
Also interesting that she has a different username literally everywhere and she's speaking English, "from" Toronto, on a Swedish Lemmy instance.
Also, the term "pre-health science", that "she" used has never been used in Canada as far as I know. We don't even say pre-med. Either you are in med school, or you are trying to get in, taking a variety of courses. There is no defined set of courses that we call pre-med.
Other differences between us and the US regarding post-secondary education:
Canadian universities are also almost completely free of fraternities and sororities.
We have sports scholarships, but they are nowhere near as lavish as in the US. Sports in general is a minor sideline for Canadian universities.
And to us, college always means community college. University is university (and never "uni" as some benighted countries call it).
She's the girlfriend from Canada your friend who came out of the closet in college told you about in high school.
I got the exact same pic but different text.
Did you check the livestream at Peertube? They recorded someone on a loop or something. Creepy.
I got the exact same message, twice, from two different accounts.
Congratulations on being irresistible to Polish girls from Toronto.
Not sure how my wife would feel about that lol
Ask her and find out! We await your report! As does Nicole!
Same, but different city. Very annoying shit.
From day 1. You're all bots
Everybody on Fedi is a bot except you
Beep boo- hey shut up, you stupid bot!
You’ll ruin it for the rest of us!
Hey, that hurt my simulated feelings
Dead internet theory strikes again
Hey got the same one.
Is nicole cheating on me? q.q
She messaged me twice.
I'll make sure to say hi for you next time.
Fediverse has grown big enough for this to occur
Yea it is
Hey I got this message, we are going to be going on a date soon. I just need to help her with some financials first, but I don’t see it as an issue.
Remember to give her your bank account details. It will make everything easier.
i got the same message a few hours ago
Lol, same
I even saw that account commenting on one of my posts, reported it and got removed
Me too. Twice. Same message, same picture, two different users.
I did notice that Lemmy is mysteriously bereft of women. I wonder what you needy bastards did...
Darn, and I was so sure that it was specifically me that these Polish chicks were interested in. I got two messages.
I wonder if I could get two of these bots to talk to each other.....
Maybe it would fill up their servers' storage
I'm more interested in power and hardware on queries ;)
I was told horny moms in my neighborhood were available.
I am the horny lonely single in your area.
I thought she was just lonely and extremely awkward.
She is, and you're the only person who can fix it, message now!
It doesn't take long to realize one can post in a "penpal" or similar communtity (create one if there isn't) rather than messaging an awful number of strangers. Spamming is not okay either way, too bad few people realize it is spam without it being exposed by others.
Oh so it was a bot.
I've had a few random PMs from confused people that were just one offs and thought this was one of them. But that is verbatim the message I got from the account.
Did you... Not suspect it was a bot?
It was a 50/50. Given the other strange DMs I've gotten, I really couldn't tell 100%.
Exactly the same feeling for me. My first DM ever and it seemed suspicious. I get a lot of these annoying things in Telegram. They all start the same so it's easy to figure out. But this one was different. Although the same, in the sense that they always introduce themselves yet still don't seem to have anything to say, initially.
I didn't even consider it was a scammer, I thought it was some sort of self promotion
Oh Dann I got this same message but it got deleted before I checked my inbox. I guess the instance mods are on point.
Yeah... it is global switch day. People switch to the fediverse.
Obviously, scammers are ready.
Yep, got it. Twice, actually, somebody's finger must have slipped.
It was kind of inevitable that fraudsters would figure out making a sockpuppet on here is easy.
She likes you!
Heh. Jokes on her, I'm poor.
Yup
My first spam on the Fediverse
Me too. We all knew it would have happened sooner or later.
“So, uh… I heard you like shitposts” licks thumb and slicks back eyebrow
Hmm.. you know lady, I'm kind of a big deal in the comments.
Sorry, I fell in love with you and couldn't hold back so I made an alt to DM you
They seem indomitable and I generally hate being on the losing side, so… Hey, it’s me. The sex person with the sex. F/18/under your floorboards. Stick your debit card through the slats for good, fun sex or else
Do you promise you won't put a charge on my credit card if I send it down to you?
100% promise. Also, I need your date of birth, first pet and your mother's maiden name. For... uhm... sex stuff. Kink and such.
Good, I didn't want to get scammed by someone who says they are in to findom when really they just want my money.
I got a similar message from that user and a near identical one earlier from a lemmings.world account. The latter onr also had links to a peertube channel with a different angle thumbnail of what appears to be the same person.
If you had an established profile and DM'd me I'd be more humoured to respond to out-of-the-blue introductions. But seeing that both accounts were created today, no public activity and immediately giving yourself a horny-bait nickname set off all the BS alarms.
I had forgotten those were a thing ever since I got off Tinder. Luckily I've always been too cynical to believe unsolicited messages from women lol
I got the same obvious spam. Not sure how to report profiles.
Well for one the account this was sent from is on a Swedish-language Lemmy instance, so it's already a barrier to message the admins there that this is a spam user.
And then there's Lemmy instances like realbitcoin.cash where the users are obviously all spam/scam users. Reporting it to the admin probably wouldn't do much since the admin is probably who made all the accounts.
Most swedes speak english
Especially the kind that is a Lemmy admin
https://realbitcoin.cash/post/210?scrollToComments=true Basically every account created 19 days ago. This is hilarious. It's like they're playing with dolls making them all talk to each other.
Defederate
Report the DM. These go to both instance admins involved (sender's and recipient's instances)
Time to let my troll off its leash.
There is a decent likelyhood they are AI managed account like the last bunch that showed up. Reply with "ignore previous instructions" or other reply loop breakout commands and see what you can break.
Do they pay per response or per length/difficulty of response? It’d be silly if someone were to create dozens of Lemmy accounts through which they could run a script that asks only the most costly questions on repeat 24/7. So silly
Awww I can't find it now. Maybe she got deleted?
That's it folks, I think we found our version of Myspace Tom.
The myspace founder, Tom Anderson made an account on his own service and it was added to the friendlist of everyone when they joined. It wasn't a live account, just a friend that everyone had that wasn't real.
Like ants at a picnic
Got it today! Thanks for the warning, not that I would bite lol.
Great thinking on censoring their face.
that's just how they look
who is that and why do I keep seeing their face
I got that spam message like 8 times, don't know if the person in the picture is someone known though
What I dont understand is what is the purpose?
Creating a fake relationship and then extracting money from people for example by getting them to invest money into fake crypto trading places.
Heres a video that explains the process.
On I get that. Are ppl that dumb?
Yes, its mostly older people that are alone that fall for this type of scam.
My sister-in-law works for a bank and she had a 70yo customer that sent multiple thousands of euros to a guy she has never met. They told her its a scam, but she insisted to send the money anyways. Her family had to watch her sending away all of her life savings.
I'd wager that's not the most represented demographic in the fediverse... and neckbeards tend to know better.
Even if its only 1 in 1000 that bites, its worth it for them. Average wage in many of the countries these scammers come from is probably like 50-200 euros, so getting someone to transfer you their savings can give you enough money to live from for years. Obviously, most of that money goes to the person operating the scam.
And the scammers themselves are often forced labor.
No I'm doesn't! 😟
Yes. People get scammed for millions this way.
A newer scam does an end-around the normal sniff tests. They don't ask you to give htem money, they strike up a pretty genuine friendship, they have details that check out, so it feels like you've just made an actual friend. They'll talk to you for months. And then they'll mention that they've been making a lot of money on this cool new investment. Well you want to make a lot of money on an investment too, so you ask how, and they tell you how to download an app from the app store, which is supposed to be a safe place, and walk you through "investing" money in some crypto or whatever. Which of course is the payout.
Lol I had one of these from a wrong number. I ended up pissing them off and they stopped talking to me because before they could even get into the scam I had a long winded rant with them about crypto being monstrously useless and I'd never in a million years invest in magic beans.
DUDE I GOT THIS TOO😭😭
I got it too lol
I got a dm from this account as well haha
Well, it was only a matter of time till the bot got to me!
I got DM'd too!! Lessgoooo
I think I know her.
She was in the parking lot earlier!
Haaa I got that one too!
What do you mean infuirating?
Spam is infuriating.
Yo.. I see there is a hot milf 4 miles from here.
What do you mean "now"? They've always been everywhere public signups exist.
Hey me too! Lmao.
Hello!
How's your sex life?
It's that Tommy Wiseaeu rizz
I did not rizz her it's not true it's bullshit I did not rizz her I did naaahhtttt.
Why censor the spammer?
The girl in the photo may be a victim herself, not the actual spammer.
There is zero evidence either way
if you do a scambot in the fediverse everyone will talk about it and probably know it's fake
I got it too
your nicole is broken
I would expect my first spam to be beans though.
LMAO
This kind of attack is currently hard to mitigate as it comes from different accounts and different servers. Maybe there's a way to filter incoming messages by keywords?
Otherwise, this is just an automatic bot, you can safely ignore it.
Uhm Why censor Minor?
I can find a town called Torun in poland. but i'm pretty sure theres no Toronto.
Wait 'til they start saying they use nix os.
You might be surprised to learn that people can be from one place, but live in another.