First Mastodon, now Lemmy

Just joined, can someone explain?

There is a spammer begging for money in DMs using that picture.
lol, same here, joined 4 days ago. While reading this thread I notice one new DM - guess what 🤣
- Zero DMs for me and now I'm sad

Are you really a Fediverse user if you haven't gotten one of these yet?

I got my first one today. I feel like I have finally made it in the Fediverse.
literally joined like an hour ago :-/
- What do you think so far? Pretty exciting concept, right?
I've been here for more than a year and I only got it yesterday. I almost started to feel being left out.
- That gives me hope. Still haven't received that pledge of honor.
I haven't gotten one yet, maybe because I don't comment much.
I just got my first one yesterday and phew, what a relief. I thought I was a phony for a while there.
- She practically could be the mascot at this point
I signed up less than a week ago and got one overnight... though I've been on mastodon for years and not got one - seems like you get accepted easier here than there 😜
Haven't gotten one yet :/
I mean I got my first one just Friday.

Hi, I’m Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick :D I’m a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o) I’m currently taking the pre-health sciences program at George Brown College hoping to get into the medical field someday!

I got my first one at last. I'm in the cool kids' club now.

Concerning that it's this easy for them to spam so many people. She might be exposing how easy Lemmy is to exploit. Does each instance have to maintain its own ban list?

I got mine today

I just noticed I got mine.
I have two of the old ones. Waiting excitedly for the new one.

Literally joined 3 days ago, and I already got her msg yesterday 🤣

I love the fediverse chick

Woah back off pardner, she's mine!
She has a discord, she's not "the fediverse chick"😅
- But you can call her that

This is a really rare picture of her. Amazing.

Rare pepe? No, rare fediverse chick.
Rare Fediverse Chick 😱

Hi, I'm The Fediverse Chick, and I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty!

Hi! I'm the Fediverse Chick, I've been trying to reach you about a Nigerian prince heritage.
- Hi, I'm the Fediverse Chick, and you've won 15 million dollars in the World l0ttery!

The real joke for me is lemmy being so starved of content a meme is cast of the first big spam message and people are irritatedly commenting that they haven't gotten it yet

You've made me realize I haven't received it. The fomo is suddenly so real.
The beans where huge too back then
- I need to not poop for three days.
- I was there when Lemmy had beans
You got any more of them memes?

Shakes with withdrawal

Hey man, come on. Don't hold out!

Can someone explain?

The first spammer of the fediverse.
I can't explain, no, because I don't understand the motivation behind it.

But someone (likely a bot) has been spamming messages, allegedly from the person depicted, as "the Fediverse chick." I got my first one this morning. It arrived within sixty seconds of me making a post, so I have to guess it's targeting more active users. If you're a frequent commenter, you'll probably get one eventually, too.
- I’m more of a lurker so I guess I’m invisible lol
- I almost never comment so this is a test.
- Last week I got two in about an one hour time span I think, but they came from different accounts.
So you are the unfound one, I see
You'll find someone special for you one day 🙏

Plot twist: Shes just a lonely person stationed somewhere far away from civilization trying desperately to make friends and find love online.

Imagine if it's just actually her pulling the most epic troll in Lemmy history.
Who isn't?
She's in ~~Vancouver~~ Toronto.

Edit: corrected location
- Mine is in Toronto, but originally from Poland

Today I finally received one, I’m worthy enough to be targeted by a bot.

She was probably afraid to fall in love herself because she really likes trains as well.

I just checked my messages and there she is 🥲 I feel both seen and seen through, as though this is what it feels like when doves cry 🥲

I finally got hit today, was feeling left out of the fun.

I've been hit so many times I should have a purple heart. This screenshot is akin to a NK general showing off his stripes.
- I’ve got that same collection and I’m actually excitedly waiting for the red blouse message.
- I think she only contacted me thrice. Now I'm sad, I think she doesn't really love me.
- That's wild, I only got hit once months ago. She must really have the hots for you.*wink wink *nudge nudge
Oh hey, I got her today as well! I guess she's expanding the reach
Same! I was starting to think I was doing Lemmy wrong or something
Now if I can only figure out how to get Lemmy to let me delete the damned thing…
I have not gotten hit.
Me as well, what am I supposed to do with this now?

Has anyone actually joined that discord? I'm curious what's on it but I'm sure as hell not joining it myself

What did I miss?

A bot that messages you, for like fake hookups and stuff. I got another one this morning. It says She's polish studying in Toronto:D I forgot her name though.
- Her Name's Nicole.
there's spam bots trying to get people to be like "oh a sexy jewish nerd from poland is into me? lemme yeah send her some money"
- Have they made her Jewish now?
- I don't find her sexy (I'm straight) and it seems like a guess at best that she's Jewish.

Ah she's on mastodon too?! Hahaha. Nicole will go down in fediverse history and I love it.

Does anyone know who this person actually is? Shouldn't we try to tell them this is happening?

I think she is the Fediverse chick

I texted back "Just send me the virus link", but did not get a response 🙁

Did anybody ever go as far as to click a link and see what kind of virus it was?

I wonder where the image used originates from. Makes me think of someone's webcam getting hacked and they're just doing normal things unknowingly while getting pictures taken of them.