Hey y'all, I know this theory might be a stretch, but remember that this could be someone using someone's name/face without their permission to harass them or frame them or something. Please just keep that in mind as you dig.
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It probably is, it looks like a frame grab from a webcam video.
With what appears to be a bong in shot. I can't imagine someone using such an unflattering photo if they were using their own face.
Eh, it's more than likely a pig-butchering scam.
The groups that do these are rather unsophisticated and mostly don't speak english. It would make sense that their poor internet connections only have low quality photos and this is likely just one of many scams with equally-bad photos.
A decent quality photo isn't that big, even over dialup you can send a better one.
Yeah, but when they're dealing with possibly hundreds of these fake profiles they probably just go for the lowest quality they can get away with.
Even something like storage costs can add up pretty quickly in a 3rd world country.
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I felt I need to contribute something to the "massive" quest to uncover more about Nicole.
I went through all my messages (from my main account, this one is a burner) and found an interesting name that kept coming up, from a couple of messages that were about 2 months old, "beyorkisan". This was a PeerTube username she included, which does not exist anymore. But I scoured the internet and found another interesting PeerTube instance which is still running and on which she has uploaded a video.
Federated link on hitchtube.fr, if the site is not loading. Also there is no audio
Also, there was another live-stream.
Going through the video and live-stream comments, seems like she had quite a following and from there I deduced a couple of things,
- She was doing some sort of engagement on a chatting website called stumblechat.com.
- She liked Krashboyz Bordel Krew Live Show 24/7
- @lnxtx@feddit.nl comments in this thread might be correct, she might indeed be living in Canada.
- If she is really the one who was doing all that, then she was active on PeerTube, federating on Fediverse and thus making herself a Fediverse Chick (pun intended).
Also there seems to be a twitch account named beyorkisan with her picture. Might be hers.
Now this is the kind of detective work we all come here for!
So seems like the image is from livestreams instead of a hack
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https://www.fortinos.ca/en/store-locator/details/0055 this seems to be the page for the store listed in the Matrix server description. The Matrix description really makes this seem like someone is doxxing her tbh.
I think is a funny meme and everything but I feel uncomfortable with people sharing her pictures. I doubt the real person on the pictures gave concent to this.
There is some variation in a college/university name:
- George Brown College
- Toronto Metropolitan University
Extra photos:
Maybe we can get rainbolt involved?
Those all look like screenshots from a video call.
I've had three, all identical messages, all from different usernames and accounts. I haven't followed any of the links.
Topic from the Matrix room:
I work at ***, *** ** **, Woodbridge, ON L4L 1A7, Canada. Come say hi sometime!
I work in the *** section, so just ask for Nicole!
Does somebody live nearby?
This is textbook internet harassment if this is a real place someone works, this is not good.
Seems like the "scam" may be a harassment campaign?
She is most likely the victim of a stalker who’s trying to get her harassed and possibly fired
This is creepy as hell.
So update, topic was removed.
Everyone who got a Nicole message: Please get in touch here, you all might have something in common.
Nice try Zuckerberg
Received it after leaving a comment in gonewild. Prime hunting grounds for lonely guys I guess. Was my second comment ever and my first was way earlier therefore I'm sure that it was the gonewild comment that triggered the bot to send me the message.
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I only got one after I mentioned somewhere that I hadn't gotten one yet. It wasn't immediately after, but close enough to make me suspicious.
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Which both don't exist anymore.
Got Nicole'd twice, last time ~a hour ago.
My guess is that the scammer is simply hitting random Fediverse people, with no meaningful pattern besides "some post/comment activity".
Has anybody contacted George Brown University, particularly the Dean of the health sciences department? If "Nicole" actually exists, and someone is using her images without her knowledge, this seems like the quickest way to let someone know it's happening.
I did but I don't think they trust anyone telling them about some Fediverse with a Lemmy and some bots which post stuff about students attending the College.
Did you show them her photo?
I linked this community.
I'm Nicole.
We all are Nicole on this blessed day.
Speak for yourself.
I am all Nicole on this blessed day.
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First time for me happened last night. Posted it here already, but for the sake of compiling information I'll repeat it here. I run a DNS whitelist firewall and logged a blocked address https://cdn-discuss-online.s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/ upon opening Lemmy with the message notification. LW cached and served the image for me when the connection to this link was unavailable. I cannot say anything further about what is happening in this connection. I can only confirm that it exists. The moment I saw the message I checked my logs and am certain that this is correlated.
We get one "Suspicious" by Trustwave on Virustotal for that.
What does this mean for people who have received these messages? Should I be worried just about having loaded the image by opening my lemmy messages?
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Has anyone received any kind of response from Nicole? Or unsolicited contact from anyone, anywhere else after being Nicole'd?
Just posting here as well to make sure it's documented.
I just got Nicole Classic™ without crypto links. I'm beginning to suspect there are Niclones out there as well
I got nicoled twice.
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