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196 @lemmy.world

webghost0101 @sopuli.xyz

3mo ago

I, did it. I found myself a grulefriend

In all seriousnessness i have banned almost 5 accounts now that messaged me this exact same post. Is there a way to block this shit?

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I saw her first, dude

Don't share that picture. It's one of the rare ones, you are devaluating mine.

Is she real? Like is this an actual person spamming the whole fediverse to advertise? Or is this some kind of catfish? Because honestly the latter is less worrisome.
- Doubt the victim is doing it.
  This looks like a threat actor testing their systems
  
  How do you mean?

You can ask your site admin to add the friendica.world url to the blocked url list in the site settings. I'm like 90% sure it blocks the pms coming through when they inevitably create new accounts
- If only.
  For better or worse, my admins are conservative about site blocks. If I could get 1 siteblock wish, it'd be lemmy.sdf.org - I don't know if the whole instance is rotten, but the fact that they're letting that one person create all those fascist communities and repost unsubstantiated propaganda gives the whole site a black mark.
  My second wish would be a block on Hexbear, but by now I've mostly personally blocked nearly all communities and users from there so that wouldn't buy me much.
  I have a Friendica account here, somewhere; I should check where I created it. Maybe reporting as a spam would work? This is the first abuse from there I've seen.
  
  SDF is usually pretty cool, and I think they're usually better at moderation than this. Dunno what the deal is with with all the crazy shit going on over there rn.
  
  FYI: You can block entire instances yourself. You don't need to wait for the admins of your instance to block them (unless, of course, your instance is not up to date and doesn't have that feature).

Same here, I guess not.

Glad to know that the chat is called "hell"

I've seen talk of the picture being stolen. I'd edit to hide it and the links
- All the messages referred to the same links. If those aren’t the scammers account then I don't know what they are getting out of this.
  In any case i think this picture has been shared wide enough that even in the case of a ex lover revenge scenario it might be better to raise awareness not to contact or bother any accounts under this name.
  Usually the reason a scam keeps going is because its working, which in this case would be compelling people to contact using those links.
  I also do hope that who ever is behind it can be traced and called out.
  I am not 100% certain on this however. If there is overwhelming support for taking it offline i will.

It's not looking good for the Poles.
Does Lemmy log IP addresses?
- No

this makes lemmy feel like instagram (that's bad)

- Its actually a whole swarm of accounts involved in this. I got the exact same message at least 5 times and each time i blocked it.
  It does appear to have stopped now thankfully.

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