this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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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.

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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

What if this poor girl is just really trying to reach out you heartless lot!

/SSSS

[–] guilhermegnzaga@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 6 hours ago

Are some lemmy instances limited to send Private Messagers ? I think mine is

[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 13 hours ago
[–] FatsoJackson@lemmy.ml 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

i got it 3 times already. 2 different pics.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 14 hours ago

Same. And thus the DM spam starts.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

FUCK this is so much better than the joke I was gonna make when I made a post

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

@metaStatic@kbin.earth is just trolling for DMs at this point.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 17 hours ago

Yep, same. And it made me wonder if it is the feds.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

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??

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 14 hours ago

I have a terrible feeling it's a compromised webcam.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

It's of that they keep using different pics of the same person