She messaged me twice.

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

Let Me Solo Her

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.

She likes you!

Isn't that a good thing?

Everybody on Fedi is a bot except you

Joined 1 year ago. 0 posts. >500 comments. Surely a real human! /s

Hey, that hurt my simulated feelings

Beep boo- hey shut up, you stupid bot!

You’ll ruin it for the rest of us!

Dead internet theory strikes again

Smells like... victory

Why haven’t these romantic bots reached out to me 🤖💔 These robots are hurting my self esteem 😢

Got one too, we did it Lemmy! We're in the big leagues now!

Some of the first ever spam messages were also sent on a decentralized, federated forum: Usenet.

And me! There's dozens of us!

That’s how you know we made it :D

Ayyy, I got one too!
A spam message that is.

Congratulations on being irresistible to Polish girls from Toronto.

Same, but different city. Very annoying shit.

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

There zero– I repeat, –ZERO girls on the internet. There wasn't any, and there never will. You saw someone post a pic of themselves, and they were a girl? That's AI. Went on a videocall with a woman? That's heavy makeup (and AI). In fact, the term GIRL aactually means Guy In Real Life. Girls on the internet are actually goverment drones built to mess with MY feelings, and they will probably mess with yours, too. Be careful, they may be watching us right now… ARGH!!

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

Myspace who?

Did you check the livestream at Peertube? They recorded someone on a loop or something. Creepy.

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.

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

Hello!

I wonder if I could get two of these bots to talk to each other.....

I was told horny moms in my neighborhood were available.

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?

Uhm Why censor Minor?

This kind of attack is currently hard to mitigate as it comes from different accounts and different servers. Maybe there's a way to filter incoming messages by keywords?

Otherwise, this is just an automatic bot, you can safely ignore it.

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.

No. Be realistic. Fediverse isn't ready yet.

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.

that's just how they look

who is that and why do I keep seeing their face

Do you promise you won't put a charge on my credit card if I send it down to you?

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

Report the DM. These go to both instance admins involved (sender's and recipient's instances)

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.

Spam is infuriating.

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?

She was in the parking lot earlier!

The girl in the photo may be a victim herself, not the actual spammer.

You might be surprised to learn that people can be from one place, but live in another.