So there is our girl, now she goes straight ahead asking for money lol
She looks angry at me because I’m too poor to help her father.
A new picture again, isn’t it? I wonder who the person is. Maybe it’s really the “hacker” or they downloaded their insta? Are the photos even insta material? Where would you upload the variety of images of her? Or are they screenshots from conversations? I kind of want to know but I want it to not be creepy
The current most likely theory of the people that dove headfirst into this seems to be, that she was a small streamer on peertube and other platforms (hence the many different webcam images, too). Looking into the chat of the stream on her peertube account reveals at least one person, that had all their messages removed by her. The linked accounts on the most common spam messages feel more like doxxing attempts, too - with ones like this asking for money most likely being copycats, as in the original messages and linked communities, there was a suspicious lack of asking for money or trying to start contact for a romance/catfishing scam.
This would all point to some kind of crazy stalker trying to doxx this woman for whatever reason, in a pretty weird way. Maybe they hoped it would get us all riled up and hating on her? Maybe they thought by just seeing her, we’d react in some way? Maybe they just wanted the feeling of power to doxx and intimidate her, and no real plan beyond that?
Whatever it is, it really looks more like creepy shit than scam shit at this point, from what I have gathered in the community research that has been happening.
This is not a copycat. This is the official account. The scammer first announced this on the Matrix. I reported first in this post.
Oh, that is almost comforting to hear, because a clear profit motive that can be linked to the original messages would indeed be pointing towards scam instead of weird stalker. That being said, it sadly would not on its own completely do away with the theory.
I’m waiting for them to come to Lemmy and make a post explaining things. That would be very interesting.
is there an AMA sublemmy?
There don’t seem to be any large ones unless I’m missing it.
There’s one with a bit under 20000 subscribers (though its on hexbear):
and one with just over 2000:
Might be some omegle screenshots
Every photo I’ve seen of “Nicole” looks like it was grabbed from a video call, including the fake social media pages someone linked to.
shut up already with the nicole spam
Isn’t uni free in Poland?
But she’s a Polish girl in Toronto
Oh I see, I only skimmed the text 😅
Sigh. I was hoping for an ARG at least.
New Nicole just dropped
I miss when she was “bjorky”…
Fuck that bitch
Ah, now it makes sense! Wonder how many suckers actually paid something?
A grand total of 0.
Both wallets are empty and have no transactions.
GG, Lemmy!
Good. Can you keep us updated?
Just ping me and I will
Ping
Both completely empty
Wait, you can do that?
I have no idea how Bitcoin works.
Yes. Bitcoin, as most cryptocurrencies, has an open ledger, meaning all transactions (and, by extension, wallet amounts) in the network are public. Everyone can see any transactions associated with any wallet.
Thereby, if someone knows a certain person is an owner of a given wallet (and the effort is to associate those two things by introducing identity verification on all major exchanges), they can know every transaction you have ever made. In fact, there are several analytical companies (for example, Chainalysis) that process this very information in bulk to help authorities combat criminal activity.
There are cryptocurrencies in which this data is encrypted, like Monero. There, you cannot view transactions associated with the wallet address unless you got a special key only the wallet owner can give to you.
There are also cryptocurrencies like Zcash, in which you can choose whether to encrypt your transactions or not.
Imagine if actual wallets worked like that, and everyone knew what your bank balance was.
That’s wild.
Might actually be good in some ways - less options to hide ill-gotten gains, or to award people wildly different salaries based on what they’re ready to settle for.
I believe in Sweden, for example, the information on income should legally be public for everyone.
You can check the wallet to see if you have the bitcoin address.
Times are tough.
her dad is probably living in the us
Do not redeem
There is the possibility that this is a copycat. It’s hard to tell since the OG was already using multiple random accounts.
Yeah, that though crossed my mind as well. But this pic was not seen before, so I tend to believe it’s the OG Nicole
This is not a copycat. This is the official account. The scammer first announced this on the Matrix. I reported first in this post.
This is not a copycat. This is the official account. The scammer first announced this on the Matrix. I reported first in this post.
Nicole should start accepting monero.
I feel bad for the real “nicole” who is probably some innocent woman who got her pics stolen
When she finds out about this she can do an ama and be a superstar for one day
"Hi,
I’m the real Nicole. I got all my pictures stolen, my identity has been tainted and life is very hard for me now, because of these scammers.
Please send help! Here’s my bitcoin wallet. "
They keep getting new photos, so she might be in on it.
Or just someone with access to her webcam
This seems likely cause she never seems to actually pose for any of the pics. In every photo it just looks like someone staring at their laptop screen.
Probably some malware on her machine that takes a snapshot every few minutes when she’s using her PC and sends it to the attacker. It’s possible she has no idea.
Can someone update me wtf all this Nicole stuff is about?
Many folks on the Fediverse got random messages from “Nicole” always starting with the string how she’s a 29yo Polish girl from Toronto and inviting people over to her socials.
They come from various throwaway accounts. I personally got about 6 or 7 of those.
As Fediverse doesn’t currently have a robust framework for combating such behavior, this poses a new challenge for the devs. In the meanwhile, this has become a local meme
A proud Polish girl, dude.
I’m wondering if there actually was anything there at her socials though. Didn’t she even have a Discord channel?
