me :3 I’ve fallen hard
It seemed pretty out of left field. Like, okay… I’m not clicking on any of that. No explanation of why someone would message me this and as I expected, it seems to have been some sort of widespread spam.
I’m pretty sure Joe does.
Fine, I’ll play along
Joe who?
Joe Mama! XD
Joe mama who?
No, I don’t
Not you Joe, dat other Joe!
Stupid question maybe but what’s the goal of this scam? The URLs seem safe, is the goal to convince us to send money to her?
It’s almost certainly a pig butchering scam
be wary of any man who has a pig farm.
eh bricktop?
Might be just someone wanting to highlight an architecture issue that allows someone to spam everyone.
I’ve had 3 or 4 already of this exact msg.
My uninformed guess is the person posting this is NOT the person in the picture.
Most likely, it’s some weirdo’s bizarre roundabout way of harassing whoever’s picture this is.This makes sense to me because why else would they keep creating the same exact account on every instance and sending the exact same message?
That’s a totally different angle and I hate it. You need to be a special kind of jerk to post someone else’s picture in a spam message.
If you think about it: have you ever gotten a picture of the spammer itself in an spam message
Yup. This is 100% the case. Either it’s a stolen image simply used for scamming, either it’s a harrasment technique.
Frankly I’m kinda amazed that apparently most people thought that was really her spamming everyone.
I don’t think they did. They didn’t consider that it’s someone harassing her though. Most people have only considered it spam/scam, not something targeting whoever she is.
If you click ln the socials she shares, she is active there and seems to match the profile picture with the content she uploads.
I never considered this, and I hope it’s not true.
When the cost to try something is virtually zero, you don’t have to try very hard. If only one in ten thousand people will fall for a scam, then millions of attempts will still get you thousands of successes.
I don’t think there is a million people here
Then you have to try multiple times per person, easy.
Got 3 of these messages already. My client doesn’t delete them. So they are stacking up.
I only got one :(
Still at zero :( I’m not sure if I should be thankful or insulted
Same.
Same.
For what it’s worth, your username is really smart
Theres no millions to message though. Some of the accounts are the same people, just jumping servers to fine one that works for them.
I got this message on my mastodon account, thought it was weird and just ignored it
I’m lonely, OK?
I tried messaging back and she never replied :(
Has anyone followed the links to see what the deal is?
I’ve gotten this message on my mastodon account twice, from different instances/accounts. Blocked them all.
I had seen posts like this circulating before so I tried to track them down:
https://lemmy.cafe/post/14113013
Some of these posts suggest they are using the pictures of someone else on purpose. Some say they’re a bot. I personally haven’t gotten these messages but I don’t get DM’s so that’s probably why. I’m pretty positive this is some kind of Honeypot scam. Either way I would trust it.
I just got one today. My lemmy client couldn’t even delete it or read it’s notification. Kinda hoping thats a bug if this is going to be a thing
You can’t escape Nicole
I’ve gotten 3 or 4 separate PMs from different alts of this account (same username but different instances) over at least a month now.
Joke’s on you, I got myself a new friend 😌
What a coincidence! I’m the fediverse dude!