Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick.
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@alice It seems absurd to try to pull that shit here — do they not see all the Linux postings? Who do they think they’re dealing with?
@michaelgemar @alice these scams are the epitome of low effort. the point isn't that they're difficult to spot, the point is to spread as wide a net as possible in the hope of catching someone on an off day when they have a shitload of other stuff going on and their guard is down.
and frustratingly, that works.
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@alice It seems absurd to try to pull that shit here — do they not see all the Linux postings? Who do they think they’re dealing with?
@michaelgemar @alice Never underestimate stupidity & ignorance. This is why phishing still works.
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@alice It seems absurd to try to pull that shit here — do they not see all the Linux postings? Who do they think they’re dealing with?
@michaelgemar @alice
I don't think we're dealing with especially bright people. When your cost is near zero, even vanishingly small hit rates can be profitable. But I'd like to think that even margin is incredibly low on Mastodon. -
Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice Sadly, they don't need a high response rate. There will always be a few newcomers who haven't yet been inoculated
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice It’s been a torrent of scammers today, for sure. Obviously a coordinated effort from someone but yeah, you’d think people here would be wise to it. Hopefully, anyway.
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R relay@relay.an.exchange shared this topic
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice but people are mastodon on it the most technologically able people on the internet. What do you really think they're going to fool?
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice Thank you! I have to say I slightly fell for it, because of how they blocked the instance name, I had to open it up in a browser to read the instance name (mastodon. cloud, which is not mine) I then reported it, along with about 25 other recent examples. I sent the anonymized report to mastodon (dot) cloud, I think that the right thing to do. Was it #infosec friends?
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice yup, I had four overnight, all from accounts on mastodon.cloud
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
I've never seen one of these.
Russian bots OTOH... a LOT! That said, they've not been so present lately. Maybe they've started to 'auto-block' me so I can't Report them.
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
A support line without at least 45 minutes of hold time? Proactively reaching out?
Nah, not falling for that one...
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
They do it on purpose. The thinking is that if most people who aren't going to be scammed just don't respond then they get to spend more time on people who are less likely to realize.
The strategy is also that if they make it an "obvious scam" in hindsight that people are going to be too embarrassed to report it.
Posts like this to a point helps them, it cements the idea that you have to be really dumb to fall for it, thus embarrassment.
Being kind to victims is really important!
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice Who made it where did you get your user icon? It's awesome!
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice not to mention, living with imposter syndrome and manufactured shame, I think it is true each time for a second or so
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice damn Masto-Baiters are at it again.
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
They amuse me since I'm on Friendica and Wafrn
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@alice Thank you! I have to say I slightly fell for it, because of how they blocked the instance name, I had to open it up in a browser to read the instance name (mastodon. cloud, which is not mine) I then reported it, along with about 25 other recent examples. I sent the anonymized report to mastodon (dot) cloud, I think that the right thing to do. Was it #infosec friends?
Sometimes rotating your phone to landscape can show longer usernames. I have also found this helps with longer poll questions.
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M mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social shared this topic
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Omg, stop it with the "We're Mastodon support" scams, no one believes you and you just look like a dick. Keep that shit on Twitter.
I'm sick of suspending your asses.
@alice how come I never get these messages? Am I not cool enough?
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I've never seen one of these.
Russian bots OTOH... a LOT! That said, they've not been so present lately. Maybe they've started to 'auto-block' me so I can't Report them.
@gsymon thank you for reporting—it makes my job as an admin so much easier.
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They do it on purpose. The thinking is that if most people who aren't going to be scammed just don't respond then they get to spend more time on people who are less likely to realize.
The strategy is also that if they make it an "obvious scam" in hindsight that people are going to be too embarrassed to report it.
Posts like this to a point helps them, it cements the idea that you have to be really dumb to fall for it, thus embarrassment.
Being kind to victims is really important!
@hp I'd never shame the victim of a crime, or someone who was taken advantage of.
The parasitic scammers, however, are fair game.
Fuck those guys¹.
¹ not all men...of course.
