<![CDATA[#Mastodon has gone mainstream: love scams involving ‘US officers’ 🤮 , credit fraud, and phishing attempts by supposed moderators.]]> has gone mainstream: love scams involving ‘US officers’ 🤮 , credit fraud, and phishing attempts by supposed moderators.

The good news: our moderators are real people and are actively on the ball. Accounts like these don’t last long.

If you have such follow requests: them *before* blocking. So you help that others get protected.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/1afc1bb2-6ab8-4969-a6e3-a1c9e7b369cd/mastodon-has-gone-mainstream-love-scams-involving-us-officers-credit-fraud-and-phishing-attempts-by-supposed-moderators.RSS for NodeWed, 29 Apr 2026 13:12:32 GMTWed, 15 Apr 2026 12:07:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to #Mastodon has gone mainstream: love scams involving ‘US officers’ 🤮 , credit fraud, and phishing attempts by supposed moderators. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:55:50 GMT]]>@Nazani I was included in one of these Mastodon "starter pack" lists, and since then see more junk and spam requests. I have to watch the phenomenon for more time but I suspect that these scammers send mass requests to these lists by bots.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/NatureMC/statuses/116409535724965385https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/NatureMC/statuses/116409535724965385Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:55:50 GMT