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Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers (www.therage.co)

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It's financial fraud with a romance hook. It's like nigerian prince scams, except instead of some rich prince who will pay you back many times over, the motivation is helping your long distance lover with some big financial problem that came up.

It's not just referring to people getting catfished (it's possible the other person is even real, because it's a lot more effective when they can do video chats and video chat sex... And it might even involve human trafficking and/or slavery and that woman's whole "job" is to have video chat sex with targets).

That said, I think those are all just excuses, valid threats or not.