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[–] thanksforallthefish 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did anyone ever find out what "Nicole" etc actually wanted ? I just blocked and immediately reported spam, but tbh never actually ask what flavour of scam "she" was up to

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eventually the messages started coming with crypto addresses to help her with her sick dad and college tuition.

[–] thanksforallthefish 36 points 2 days ago

Ahh, yeah ok, not too surprising I guess. Thanks

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. No more Nicole spam after they locked the Nicole community. Because someone thought it would be funny to spam photos of a corpse.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As hard as they shut down discussions of "Nicole" I'm surprised simply saying the name doesn't get your account banned.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm surprised shutting down the community stopped the messages. I never thought that would work

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sh.itjust.works clamped the spam filter down so hard that there was awhile there where I couldn't access the nicoled@feddit.org community from my account, I had to go separately. So somebody might still be trying and it's getting nuked server side.

It was such a weird scam, too.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh that's interesting. But the senders were from a variety of instances

Yeah I think the sh.itjust.works admins blocked it pretty hard from showing up to internal accounts. Other folks from other instances could send, but us sh.itheads couldn't receive. And they did their brain surgery with a backhoe.