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@midtsveen

Fastly approaching to be the most well-known bot on the fediverse

@midtsveen

This scam lover has sent me more than 10 petitions, changing the name, but same history always.

@CorioPsicologia Ha, I was expecting her message to eventually hit me, and then the bot messaged me on my DMs today. 😆

@midtsveen

Yes, these scammer are quite annoying

@midtsveen I've received similar personal messages on here from accounts with various names, all claiming to be pretty young female medical students of Polish origin studying in Toronto.

And I ask myself, why Poland? Why medicine? Why Toronto? If the scammers have enough sense to vary the name and the photo, why are these details invariant?

@simon_brooke Likely playing on common stereotypes. Like medical = good people, Canada = expensive, "positive country", Poland = poor + far away from country B.

@MartinVuilleme Poland is a country rapidly ceasing to be poor, I think?

@simon_brooke I have no idea about its economy. But to a scammer that wouldn't matter.

@midtsveen Someone should really develop a Nicole spamfilter.

@PaulaToThePeople @midtsveen

I got a dm for her and I think they are doing this for stealling information from us

@PaulaToThePeople @midtsveen does anyone have a doc with all the username they've created? So we can easily block them all?

@midtsveen

I'm in "ShieldsUp L1" mode. I'm sorta immune.

Manage notifications from:

1. People you don't follow = filter
2. People not following you = filter
3. New accounts = filter
4. Unsolicited private mentions = filter (but for you I'd advice to choose "ignore" = thrown in bin)
5. Moderated accounts = Accept(I trust my instance?)

Fediverse is full of replyguys, we are under attack!

Ask Laffy.