Should I give her my CC number to keep her company?

  • @[email protected]
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    641 month ago

    Someday am actual human woman is going to approach me and start talking and I’m going to assume she’s a bot

  • southsamurai
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    311 month ago

    I got my dm from the bot just a bit ago! I feel all loved now :)

  • @expatriado
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    1 month ago

    awww, we got our own community chic? she’s everyone’s girlfriend now, also, 45 y.o. and a man

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    So real talk, what exactly is the angle here? Are these rogue instances in the links? Truly just trying to bait in the lonely and gullible to eventually solicit payment down the line?

    It just seems … weird for a romance bait scam. Average looking woman (though could be to lower guards), links to Fediverse service profiles rather than botted DM exchanges, etc.

    I could just be being naive, but idk. There’s a very particular brand of fishy to this, beyond the obvious. The other probable scammer I dealt with at least came with a sob story that I could see being more effective (end of his rope humanitarian worker in an African country, children dying due to lack of $ for the program).

    • @[email protected]
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      171 month ago

      I watched the stream, it was just a very long looped video of the girl in the photo, looked the same one day later. It seems like it’s been deleted today. The Friendica profile also nothing extraordinary. I guess the scam should be on the chat, it required one more click after opening the site, and I never heard of this stumblechat, so I didn’t bother. After some searching I can’t find a lot info on this Stumblechat, it definitely has nothing to do with the fediverse.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 month ago

    She just sent me a third DM. This one had a different picture! She’s obviously really into me.

  • db0
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    181 month ago

    Yes ok but you don’t need to be doing their job for them. Blur that shit.

      • db0
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        211 month ago

        It’s not about respecting the privacy of a spambot. it’s about doing their job for them. The bot wants their links and their advert to be seen by as many eyeballs as possible. Guess what the OP just achieved? Blur all links next time.

        • SayCyberOnceMore
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          121 month ago

          I’m kinda on the fence… yeah ditch any actual links, etc, but with a title like that to this post, it’s kinda showing familiarity AND the bait warning. So… 🤷🏼‍♂️

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          I disagree.
          Saying “this is a scam” with the links visible is more transparent. If the scam changes but the links are similar, it will hopefully raise a red flag for someone.

          Blurring them does nothing other than obfuscating the details of the scam.
          Shine light onto the darkness and document it.

  • AItoothbrush
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    161 month ago

    This shows that lemmy is a mature social media now! It has its own OF bots!

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    I got this today, I looked at it but it hasn’t vanished from my messages list. Bloody annoying.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    I looked at this thread and then my notifications. It was there but hadn’t notified me yet, said 23 seconds ago. Weird timing.

  • OpenStars
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    111 month ago

    Yes, please do. Just make sure to send her the “correct” one, or it might be bad for her if she got the “wrong” one, whoopsie!

  • @cm0002
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    111 month ago

    I didn’t get a message this time, I think we broke up :'(

  • @[email protected]
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    101 month ago

    The French of jlailu received it as well today.

    We felt without l’amour, but now we have it back hon hon hon.

    • @Cort
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      61 month ago

      Hmmm. The spam bots are learning.

  • madjo
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    91 month ago

    Finally! female attention! I should get out of this basement more often.