• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    So, explain this move to me:

    We know it’s a scam of some kind, to the point a community has sprung up to discuss it. Why keep pushing the exact same scam? Is it working somehow?

    • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeOP
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      5 hours ago

      Lately, I’m starting to believe that rather than any scam, this may be a harassment campaign. The target seems to be the person in the images.

      • tischbier@feddit.org
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        4 hours ago

        That would be horrible and makes this more creepy than anything. I almost hope it’s a scam instead of targeted harassment. But now that you’ve said this I feel very uneasy that you may be right

        • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeOP
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          3 hours ago

          Someone here recently did some digging and found some LinkedIn and Facebook accounts that seemed to be from a girl eerily similar to the one in the photos. Also, the Matrix server once leaked an address that seemed to be near the University in the messages.

          This is almost certainly a harassment campaign.

  • Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    What exactly does she expect to gain actually? I see those “scammer” titles but don’t understand the scam…

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      1 day ago

      A romance scam is typically when they befriend you through chat. Then when they think you are invested in the relationship, they will send a message that they are in distress and can you send some money to help them out. Or sometimes is a send money for flights to come a see you. Obviously they don’t go anywhere beyond that and will just have more reasons to send money. The pictures of the fake person are often lifted from real people’s social media. In this case it appears to be a webcam chat with someone.

          • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            12 hours ago

            Wait, what? odd, i didn’t even notice. It doesn’t federate for me.

            I don’t have a clue, maybe nicole got angry that i blocked her ;) (only for our community, though)

            Edit: I think this community doesn’t federate properly with dbzer0 for some reason, even though i have been subscribed since its creation. My post only has 5 upvotes from here, while on LW it has like 28?

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 hours ago

      Trying to play smart, lol. I’ve added a slur filter regex, that should delete all her messages. You still get it sent (limitation from lemmy :c) but it just appears as removed