Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

Mee too... Well, it means the fediverse is getting popular!

Pron and spam... It means success!

Smells like... victory
- 🫣
Why haven’t these romantic bots reached out to me 🤖💔 These robots are hurting my self esteem 😢
- 🥵 HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA 🔥 --> totallynotascam. com
  
  Feel better now?
- I never seem to get appropriately coded romance scams.
  
  I guess the RFI from my computer is jamming the gaydar.
- I didn't get one either ☹️ I'm so starved for female attention I'd happily speak to a romance scammer, just can't bring myself to do it on a non open platform.
- How you doin' 😉😏
Got one too, we did it Lemmy! We're in the big leagues now!
- You mean, .... she's not real? Say it isn't so!
And me! There's dozens of us!
Some of the first ever spam messages were also sent on a decentralized, federated forum: Usenet.
That’s how you know we made it :D
Ayyy, I got one too!
A spam message that is.

I can fix her

Let Me Solo Her

You can tell she’s not a real girl by the lack of cat ears

She's not crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out either.
You can also tell it by the fact this is Lemmy we're talking about. /s

The Fediverse Scamgirl!

Awkward Nerd Girls Want In Your DMs! They're not in your area, just online!

I almost made this same post and then decided I didn't care enough. This was my take on the same;

Also interesting that she has a different username literally everywhere and she's speaking English, "from" Toronto, on a Swedish Lemmy instance.

Also, the term "pre-health science", that "she" used has never been used in Canada as far as I know. We don't even say pre-med. Either you are in med school, or you are trying to get in, taking a variety of courses. There is no defined set of courses that we call pre-med.

Other differences between us and the US regarding post-secondary education:

Canadian universities are also almost completely free of fraternities and sororities.

We have sports scholarships, but they are nowhere near as lavish as in the US. Sports in general is a minor sideline for Canadian universities.

And to us, college always means community college. University is university (and never "uni" as some benighted countries call it).
She's the girlfriend from Canada your friend who came out of the closet in college told you about in high school.
I got the exact same pic but different text.
Did you check the livestream at Peertube? They recorded someone on a loop or something. Creepy.

I got the exact same message, twice, from two different accounts.

Congratulations on being irresistible to Polish girls from Toronto.
- Not sure how my wife would feel about that lol
Same, but different city. Very annoying shit.

From day 1. You're all bots

Everybody on Fedi is a bot except you
Beep boo- hey shut up, you stupid bot!

You’ll ruin it for the rest of us!
Hey, that hurt my simulated feelings
Dead internet theory strikes again

Hey got the same one.

Is nicole cheating on me? q.q

She messaged me twice.

I'll make sure to say hi for you next time.

Fediverse has grown big enough for this to occur

Isn't that a good thing?
- Yea it is

Hey I got this message, we are going to be going on a date soon. I just need to help her with some financials first, but I don’t see it as an issue.

Remember to give her your bank account details. It will make everything easier.

i got the same message a few hours ago

Lol, same

I even saw that account commenting on one of my posts, reported it and got removed
Me too. Twice. Same message, same picture, two different users.
- I did notice that Lemmy is mysteriously bereft of women. I wonder what you needy bastards did...

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

I wonder if I could get two of these bots to talk to each other.....
- Maybe it would fill up their servers' storage
I was told horny moms in my neighborhood were available.

I am the horny lonely single in your area.

I thought she was just lonely and extremely awkward.

She is, and you're the only person who can fix it, message now!
It doesn't take long to realize one can post in a "penpal" or similar communtity (create one if there isn't) rather than messaging an awful number of strangers. Spamming is not okay either way, too bad few people realize it is spam without it being exposed by others.

Oh so it was a bot.

I've had a few random PMs from confused people that were just one offs and thought this was one of them. But that is verbatim the message I got from the account.

I didn't even consider it was a scammer, I thought it was some sort of self promotion
Did you... Not suspect it was a bot?
- It was a 50/50. Given the other strange DMs I've gotten, I really couldn't tell 100%.

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

Yep, got it. Twice, actually, somebody's finger must have slipped.

It was kind of inevitable that fraudsters would figure out making a sockpuppet on here is easy.

She likes you!
- Heh. Jokes on her, I'm poor.

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

Yup

My first spam on the Fediverse

Me too. We all knew it would have happened sooner or later.

“So, uh… I heard you like shitposts” licks thumb and slicks back eyebrow

Hmm.. you know lady, I'm kind of a big deal in the comments.

Sorry, I fell in love with you and couldn't hold back so I made an alt to DM you

They seem indomitable and I generally hate being on the losing side, so… Hey, it’s me. The sex person with the sex. F/18/under your floorboards. Stick your debit card through the slats for good, fun sex or else

Do you promise you won't put a charge on my credit card if I send it down to you?
- 100% promise. Also, I need your date of birth, first pet and your mother's maiden name. For... uhm... sex stuff. Kink and such.

I got a similar message from that user and a near identical one earlier from a lemmings.world account. The latter onr also had links to a peertube channel with a different angle thumbnail of what appears to be the same person.

If you had an established profile and DM'd me I'd be more humoured to respond to out-of-the-blue introductions. But seeing that both accounts were created today, no public activity and immediately giving yourself a horny-bait nickname set off all the BS alarms.

I had forgotten those were a thing ever since I got off Tinder. Luckily I've always been too cynical to believe unsolicited messages from women lol

I got the same obvious spam. Not sure how to report profiles.

Well for one the account this was sent from is on a Swedish-language Lemmy instance, so it's already a barrier to message the admins there that this is a spam user.

And then there's Lemmy instances like realbitcoin.cash where the users are obviously all spam/scam users. Reporting it to the admin probably wouldn't do much since the admin is probably who made all the accounts.
- Most swedes speak english
- Defederate
- https://realbitcoin.cash/post/210?scrollToComments=true Basically every account created 19 days ago. This is hilarious. It's like they're playing with dolls making them all talk to each other.
Report the DM. These go to both instance admins involved (sender's and recipient's instances)

Time to let my troll off its leash.

That's it folks, I think we found our version of Myspace Tom.

There is a decent likelyhood they are AI managed account like the last bunch that showed up. Reply with "ignore previous instructions" or other reply loop breakout commands and see what you can break.

Do they pay per response or per length/difficulty of response? It’d be silly if someone were to create dozens of Lemmy accounts through which they could run a script that asks only the most costly questions on repeat 24/7. So silly
Awww I can't find it now. Maybe she got deleted?

Like ants at a picnic

Got it today! Thanks for the warning, not that I would bite lol.

What I dont understand is what is the purpose?

Creating a fake relationship and then extracting money from people for example by getting them to invest money into fake crypto trading places.

Heres a video that explains the process.
- On I get that. Are ppl that dumb?

DUDE I GOT THIS TOO😭😭

Great thinking on censoring their face.

that's just how they look
who is that and why do I keep seeing their face
- I got that spam message like 8 times, don't know if the person in the picture is someone known though