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CTDummy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The same reason a lot scam emails are riddled with typos, follow recognisable formats (eg nigerian prince) and can be easily determined as scams. If you can spot it you aren’t the mark. It’s a form of selection bias. If your recognise Nicole you probably aren’t new to Lemmy or the Fediverse and are a bad mark. I’d guess, I never followed the links, don’t generally follow links dm’d from random, days old accounts in general. Maybe Nicole truly is just thirsty for Lemmy friends and keeps getting banned lmao.

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lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Honestly people that do recognize it for what it is should respond. Keep them talking to waste their time so they can’t hurt someone else.

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- Tower@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And if you can get them to do stupid things, you can post about it here!
  
  aff.419eater.com
  
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- CTDummy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That easier done with more involved scams like phone calls you see YouTubers do. Especially since they likely paid for that info. Places like here there no buy in so it’s a volume game i imagine. If I can’t get you to another platform to buy me stuff I’d move on to the next one quickly as possible.
  
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  - SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I had one Indian scammer use my name so I was interested. Then he asked if my email was still current and gave an email that I used like 20 years ago in middle school. I laughed and told him he paid for shitty info. It was a goddamn Hotmail account to give you an idea.
    
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- Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But then you’re also wasting your own time.
  
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  - nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    yeah but it’s fun
    
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  - surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If we all wasted 5 minutes we could shut down the system.
    
    People really underestimate the power of collective action. It’s just meat based ddos.
    
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    Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “They” will be an LLM.
    
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    Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    It’s just meat based ddos.
    
    What a fascinating sentence.
    
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  - SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. I always love talking to Indian scammers when they call about my student loans that don’t exist.
    
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    hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I already asked 2 scammers on discord for bathwater and they never took me up on it :( it’s a cruel world
    
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