You have been visited by the catfish of good fortune. Many upvotes and new users will be bestowed upon you, but only if you reply "happy fedding" to her message.
What if this poor girl is just really trying to reach out you heartless lot!
/SSSS
Are some lemmy instances limited to send Private Messagers ? I think mine is
Finally!
i got it 3 times already. 2 different pics.
Same. And thus the DM spam starts.
FUCK this is so much better than the joke I was gonna make when I made a post
I never wanted DM functionality and can't turn it off.
Got a few empty DMs that are functionally unremovable from notifications so I've blocked the notification element, I wouldn't know if I got a DM any more.
Yep, same. And it made me wonder if it is the feds.
I think the funniest part about that spam message is they didnt even try to do a good picture. Like it looks like a screenshot of someone in a early morning zoom meeting about to fall asleep. If your gonna try and catfish why wouldnt you choose a better photo??
I have a terrible feeling it's a compromised webcam.
I'm thinking, it's an attempt to be more succesful with nerds like us? I gotta admit I thought it was possibly a real person the first time I saw it, I'm more than desensitized to supermodel looking asian pictures from when I was on dating apps and occasionally reddit. I'm guessing just a non horny, non model, claiming to be studying in STEM is trying to avoid the obvious red flags for people that know supermodels probably aren't into them.
I mean, scammers aren't exactly the smartest tools in the shed (but usually the toolest), but this one seems especially weird. Like, wouldn't they at least notice this whole campaign became a huge meme at this point?
I suspect that's kind of the point, or at least works in their favour. If you don't know about it, you're probably pretty new here and therefore a better candidate for a victim.
It's of that they keep using different pics of the same person