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What do you mean “now”? They’ve always been everywhere public signups exist.
I think I know her.
She was in the parking lot earlier!
Got it today! Thanks for the warning, not that I would bite lol.
Time to let my troll off its leash.
I got DM’d too!! Lessgoooo
You got that too, huh? I’m sure shes a sweet person 😊
I got it too
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.
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.
Yes, its mostly older people that are alone that fall for this type of scam.
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.
Obviously, most of that money goes to the person operating the scam.
And the scammers themselves are often forced labor.
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.
I am the horny lonely single in your area.
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
Defederate
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.
Well, it was only a matter of time till the bot got to me!
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
hi, nicole!
Hello!
How’s your sex life?
0-100 in competition turbocharged high-displacement speed
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.
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.
if you do a scambot in the fediverse everyone will talk about it and probably know it’s fake
