Transcription: picture is a screenshot of a user inbox page with a new message containing a photo of a woman with dark hair. The message reads “Hi I am Nicole but you can call me the Fediverse chick”. There’s more text but this is very obviously a bot attempting to get people to join a particular server.
On a side note: I can’t delete this message as I get an error about dms not being available. I’ve blocked the bot already. Does programming.dev support dm’s?
Yeah, we ban the spam accounts on the first report we receive.
Given they send the same message every time without a clear angle for the scam I almost wonder if it’s less about scamming and more about giving Lemmy and the Fediverse at large a chance to improve its mod tools before really nasty spam starts taking hold
Best guess: it’s like the innocuous “wrong number” scam or the looking for love email scams. Talk with “her”, form a “friendship” or “romance” until she has your trust enough to sucker you into buying whatever scam bitcoin or sending money.
Why does this use the most stupid photo they could find?
To make it seem authentic
As a Real Woman™ I would never send a blurry candid to introduce my face. The poor lady got her picture stolen (maybe this is a video screenshot?) probably has nicer shots of herself. Ironically the spammer trying to seem “authentic” with this picture just makes her feel faker. I imagine most people want to put our best foot forward and make a good impression, hence a nice picture.
They should have taken the picture in the mirror with their phone covering their face then.
I think it’s from a livestream
If you’re using Sync and you report a DM, the app will report a random comment instead.
I sent you a DM to test DMs in the instance. I think it went through ok. As far as deleting goes, i don’t see a way to delete in voyager so I’m not sure on that part.
It’s a shame that the fediverse doesn’t have a better way to stop these mass DMs though
Yeah so I can dm, I just can’t delete a dm request oddly enough. I’m on Connect so might be my app rather than the instance
I mentioned this the last wave a few weeks ago of the same message with a different user name. There is no option anywhere on even the desktop UI to delete a DM (using Mbin, don’t know about Lemmy).
I got this for the first time this morning, feels like a rite of passage
I’m a two timer but saw a lot of people talk about it the first time. I couldn’t find anyone talking about the latest one so figured I’d mention it here
On Mastodon at least there is a mod available to add regex-based rejection patterns. We added the identifier from the discord link to our reject pattern and that seems to have stopped this particular spammer from getting at our users.
Maybe there’s something similar for other fedi services
Is the discord actually related?
