• Spezi@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

          • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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            3 months ago

            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.

            • Spezi@feddit.orgEnglish
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              3 months ago

              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.

              • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Obviously, most of that money goes to the person operating the scam.

                And the scammers themselves are often forced labor.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You got that too, huh? I’m sure shes a sweet person 😊

  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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    3 months ago

    HELP EVERYONE!

    I GOT FOUR MESSAGES FROM THIS TYPE OF BOT AND I’M ACTUALLY SCARED!!!

    p.s.: I’m a m*nor

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This kind of attack is currently hard to mitigate as it comes from different accounts and different servers. Maybe there’s a way to filter incoming messages by keywords?

      Otherwise, this is just an automatic bot, you can safely ignore it.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

    • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Why haven’t these romantic bots reached out to me 🤖💔 These robots are hurting my self esteem 😢

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 months ago

            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.

        • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Since when is porn cursing? No one is chastising anyone for not cursing. You can talk like an adult here and use actual words. Mummy won’t shout at you.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 months ago

            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?

      • jwt@programming.devEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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)

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      3 months ago

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

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yeah… it is global switch day. People switch to the fediverse.

  • oo1@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    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.