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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.
Oddly specific
Did you check the livestream at Peertube? They recorded someone on a loop or something. Creepy.
What do you mean infuirating?
Spam is infuriating.
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
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.
No I’m doesn’t! 😟
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.
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.
Well, it was only a matter of time till the bot got to me!
That’s it folks, I think we found our version of Myspace Tom.
Myspace who?
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.
I think that is common, when you create an account you automatically follow the Bluesky account.
Fediverse has grown big enough for this to occur
Isn’t that a good thing?
Yea it is
Yeah… it is global switch day. People switch to the fediverse.
No. Be realistic. Fediverse isn’t ready yet.
Obviously, scammers are ready.
“My body is ready”
I got DM’d too!! Lessgoooo
Great thinking on censoring their face.
that’s just how they look
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…
LMAO
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
There zero– I repeat, –ZERO girls on the internet. There wasn’t any, and there never will. You saw someone post a pic of themselves, and they were a girl? That’s AI. Went on a videocall with a woman? That’s heavy makeup (and AI). In fact, the term GIRL aactually means Guy In Real Life. Girls on the internet are actually goverment drones built to mess with MY feelings, and they will probably mess with yours, too. Be careful, they may be watching us right now… ARGH!!
I feel like I’ve been violently ripped back in time to 2011. This is glorious
I am the horny lonely single in your area.
