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!
Hi im the fediverse money please!
For sure wouldnt be doing it if it didnt work. Id assume theres a small percentage of the people they send this to think its real
Remarkably pedestrian photo for a scam. And 29yo seems old for a fantasy girl too.
I guess they understand that it’s older guys who have the money, and even those guys know they’ll never make it with an 18yo.
Gotta love Nicole
me :3 I’ve fallen hard
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.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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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?
Might be just someone wanting to highlight an architecture issue that allows someone to spam everyone.
It’s almost certainly a pig butchering scam
be wary of any man who has a pig farm.
eh bricktop?
I’ve had 3 or 4 already of this exact msg.
We’re engaged. Will be getting married as soon as my deposit check for half the expenses clears.
Hello all! I’m Rose. Also a Fediverse chick. Unlike Nicole I don’t spam people. Also I’m not on Friendica (not many people are) and you probably shouldn’t add me as a friend on any Fedi platform because I’m a hella boring nerd.
I am interested.
I feel like hella boring and nerd are mutually exclusive
Depends if you’re into each particular nerd’s special interest(s)
Now we’re talking!
What kinda nerd?
Hi! I’m John, but you can call me the fediverse dude. Unlike nicole and Rose, I don’t claim to be someone i’m not! Please add me on all platforms, I crave attention!
(Sorry Rose, I need this)
How do I send money to you?
Sheesh, at least buy them a drink or something first, you don’t have to jump straight to brass tax
added!
I got this message yesterday and checked out the matrix server. It was a bunch of anime profiles spewing racist nonsense. Reminded me of 4chan with the vibes. Not for me.
Can I ask why you bothered to check it out? Doesn’t that just encourage this behavior? If no one clicked the links people wouldn’t do this.
I got this message on my mastodon account, thought it was weird and just ignored it
