Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

Yep, got it. Twice, actually, somebody's finger must have slipped.

It was kind of inevitable that fraudsters would figure out making a sockpuppet on here is easy.

I am the horny lonely single in your area.

Hey got the same one.

Is nicole cheating on me? q.q

hi, nicole!

What do you mean "now"? They've always been everywhere public signups exist.

That's it folks, I think we found our version of Myspace Tom.

I can fix her

Fediverse has grown big enough for this to occur

I got it too lol

I got the exact same message, twice, from two different accounts.

Hey I got this message, we are going to be going on a date soon. I just need to help her with some financials first, but I don’t see it as an issue.

Great thinking on censoring their face.

What do you mean infuirating?

Oh so it was a bot.

I've had a few random PMs from confused people that were just one offs and thought this was one of them. But that is verbatim the message I got from the account.

Sorry, I fell in love with you and couldn't hold back so I made an alt to DM you

I got a dm from this account as well haha

Mee too... Well, it means the fediverse is getting popular!

Pron and spam... It means success!

You can tell she’s not a real girl by the lack of cat ears

The Fediverse Scamgirl!

Awkward Nerd Girls Want In Your DMs! They're not in your area, just online!

I almost made this same post and then decided I didn't care enough. This was my take on the same;

Also interesting that she has a different username literally everywhere and she's speaking English, "from" Toronto, on a Swedish Lemmy instance.

Yeah... it is global switch day. People switch to the fediverse.

Oh Dann I got this same message but it got deleted before I checked my inbox. I guess the instance mods are on point.

i got the same message a few hours ago

I thought she was just lonely and extremely awkward.

They seem indomitable and I generally hate being on the losing side, so… Hey, it’s me. The sex person with the sex. F/18/under your floorboards. Stick your debit card through the slats for good, fun sex or else

“So, uh… I heard you like shitposts” licks thumb and slicks back eyebrow

your nicole is broken

I would expect my first spam to be beans though.

I got a similar message from that user and a near identical one earlier from a lemmings.world account. The latter onr also had links to a peertube channel with a different angle thumbnail of what appears to be the same person.

If you had an established profile and DM'd me I'd be more humoured to respond to out-of-the-blue introductions. But seeing that both accounts were created today, no public activity and immediately giving yourself a horny-bait nickname set off all the BS alarms.

I got the same obvious spam. Not sure how to report profiles.

There is a decent likelyhood they are AI managed account like the last bunch that showed up. Reply with "ignore previous instructions" or other reply loop breakout commands and see what you can break.