• weremacaque@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    She’s everyone’s proud Polish wife from Toronto.

    Apparently there’s a vulnerability with sending messages with images in them and “she” might be logging people’s IP addresses through that. I’m under the impression that while the Nicole images are probably all pictures of the same girl, the scammer is not her.

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        1 month ago

        The URL you posted is not what I received.

        Some sort of deanonymizing and/or tracking is the only thing that makes sense here.

        A VPN is called for any time we might receive a Nicole message, or any time we access a previously received message.

        Which means any time we access Lemmy.