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LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

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Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

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LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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    Mee too… Well, it means the fediverse is getting popular!

    Pron and spam… It means success!

    • shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Smells like… victory

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        🫣

    • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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      Why haven’t these romantic bots reached out to me 🤖💔 These robots are hurting my self esteem 😢

      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        🥵 HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA 🔥 --> totallynotascam. com

        Feel better now?

        • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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          ❤️🤖

          • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Just give me your credit card and bank account details and your hookup will be there in no time!

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        I never seem to get appropriately coded romance scams.

        I guess the RFI from my computer is jamming the gaydar.

      • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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        I didn’t get one either ☹️ I’m so starved for female attention I’d happily speak to a romance scammer, just can’t bring myself to do it on a non open platform.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        How you doin’ 😉😏

    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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      deleted by creator

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        If you do it the former way, you’re supposed to use a zero as well: “Pr0n.”

        • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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          1337

          • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
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            m4d h4x0r!

            (Gosh, I miss the internet of the olden days of the early 2000s. Simpler times back then 😁)

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              Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies

              • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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                i backtrace you

            • Victor@lemmy.world
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              hunter2 ftw

        • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu
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          Yeah I am not good at it (porn, I mean…) Better at the other one (pron, I mean …)

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        Why the hell do you care enough to post that here? What difference is it to you if they type pr0n or porn? The ‘you’re not cussing enough’ crowd confuses the fuck out of me

        • Donkter@lemmy.world
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          I mean, you still “cussed”. Switching two letters around doesn’t change the meaning and the original word doesn’t hold any special powers.

          I agree it’s not much to make a reply about.

          I think the attitude stems from the view that using placeholder words for swear words is often associated with religious/puritanical attitudes since there’s not really a reason to do it so the user reacts as they would to puritanical people invading their community i.e. hostile.

          I think that’s not as true today but that’s where the backlash comes from.

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            You know, God forbid somebody uses voice dictation which bleeps it out or has to switch between work chats and social media.

            Fuck, Even if it is somebody puritanical quoting on something they’ve got 70 up votes and somebody else has to come in and bitch at them because they might have sellf censored a word.

            I think I’m just going to do the same rant every time someone plays that shit.

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          deleted by creator

          • rumba@lemmy.zip
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            Mummy won’t shout at you.

            Who put you in charge of what words people choose to use do you have some form of badge for this?

            Why do you get to matter?

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        Goddamn I cant believe I have to explain this. Typing porn as pron or pr0n is funny because it connotates a rather transparent way of trying to hide your porn collection on a computer used by others/relatives. It in no way has anything to do with censoring. Stop getting faux outraged by every little non-thing. (he said outraged by a non-thing)

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Lemmy seems so snarky lately.

          • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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            We are ex-redditors, remember that!

        • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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          My stupid state has me blocked from many of the mainstream pr0n sites :( Too cheap to get a vpn though.

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            It’s fine, all the VPNs are run by feds!

            Just buy the services of a prostitute like God intended.

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              “Buy”? They are to lay down and give themselves to you freely, for it is done in service of their lord.

              …lol

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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        It’s a long standing joke, calm down. I’ve joking called porn pron many times.

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        Fuck! Porn! But maybe Lemmy.world could ban me… /s

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        It’s what the Internet is for, anyway:

        https://youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs

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        Maybe she didn’t want to though.

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      Got one too, we did it Lemmy! We’re in the big leagues now!

      • VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan
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        You mean, … she’s not real? Say it isn’t so!

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      And me! There’s dozens of us!

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      Some of the first ever spam messages were also sent on a decentralized, federated forum: Usenet.

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      That’s how you know we made it :D

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      Ayyy, I got one too!
      A spam message that is.

  • console.log(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.works
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    I can fix her

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      Let Me Solo Her

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    You can tell she’s not a real girl by the lack of cat ears

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      She’s not crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out either.

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      You can also tell it by the fact this is Lemmy we’re talking about. /s

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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      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!!

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        I feel like I’ve been violently ripped back in time to 2011. This is glorious

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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.

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      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).

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        deleted by creator

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      She’s the girlfriend from Canada your friend who came out of the closet in college told you about in high school.

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        Oddly specific

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      I got the exact same pic but different text.

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      Did you check the livestream at Peertube? They recorded someone on a loop or something. Creepy.

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    From day 1. You’re all bots

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      Everybody on Fedi is a bot except you

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      Beep boo- hey shut up, you stupid bot!

      You’ll ruin it for the rest of us!

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      Hey, that hurt my simulated feelings

    • Electric_Druid@lemmy.world
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      Dead internet theory strikes again

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      Joined 1 year ago. 0 posts. >500 comments. Surely a real human! /s

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    I got the exact same message, twice, from two different accounts.

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      Congratulations on being irresistible to Polish girls from Toronto.

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        Not sure how my wife would feel about that lol

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          Ask her and find out! We await your report! As does Nicole!

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      Same, but different city. Very annoying shit.

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    Hey got the same one.

    Is nicole cheating on me? q.q

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      She messaged me twice.

      I’ll make sure to say hi for you next time.

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    Fediverse has grown big enough for this to occur

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      Isn’t that a good thing?

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        Yea it is

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      deleted by creator

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    Hey I got this message, we are going to be going on a date soon. I just need to help her with some financials first, but I don’t see it as an issue.

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      Remember to give her your bank account details. It will make everything easier.

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    i got the same message a few hours ago

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
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      Lol, same

      I even saw that account commenting on one of my posts, reported it and got removed

      • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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        you guys get ... meme

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      Me too. Twice. Same message, same picture, two different users.

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        I did notice that Lemmy is mysteriously bereft of women. I wonder what you needy bastards did…

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    Darn, and I was so sure that it was specifically me that these Polish chicks were interested in. I got two messages.

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      I wonder if I could get two of these bots to talk to each other…

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        Maybe it would fill up their servers’ storage

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          I’m more interested in power and hardware on queries ;)

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      I was told horny moms in my neighborhood were available.

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    I am the horny lonely single in your area.

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    I thought she was just lonely and extremely awkward.

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      She is, and you’re the only person who can fix it, message now!

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    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.

    • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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      Did you… Not suspect it was a bot?

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        It was a 50/50. Given the other strange DMs I’ve gotten, I really couldn’t tell 100%.

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          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.

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      I didn’t even consider it was a scammer, I thought it was some sort of self promotion

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    Oh Dann I got this same message but it got deleted before I checked my inbox. I guess the instance mods are on point.

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