Got 4 copies of it, I don’t even know how to send a message to “all” here, didn’t think it was possible.
The API is pretty open. you can write a script that sends individual messages to however many people you like
Neither of the apps I use lets me do anything beyond read the message and mark it as read. Is there a profile setting to disable that shit? I have to log into my fucking desktop just to delete the stupid phishing message.
can you not use the mobile web ui? you dont really need a lemmy app
Ahh yeah, I can. So far I prefer the ux of apps (thunder,raccoon,eternity) to lemmy on mobile though. And I was already logged in on desktop so that was faster.
who is the woman in the picture? I saw a couple stills randomly posted in comments too.
Take all my money, random dude on the web.
I didn’t get one 😔
I can catfish you if you want
Me next.
I did. I didn’t think it was a catfish though. I assumed it was some person promoting their streaming shit. Kinda smart, a smaller, mostly nerdy community of niche interests.
Doesn’t mean I didn’t block them though.
I thought this was funny
Imagine unwarping the face 😆
I got it too. Looks like maybe they were banned because it disappeared from my inbox
I didn’t even know pms were a thing mbin until I got that one earlier. No pic on mine, but might be a cross-compatability issue or already the link died
i posted this in my instances meta community, im not sure if defederating is the best option, but it sets a warning.
I, too, was approached by Missy/Nicole.
I thought maybe it vas a weird quirk of friendica, but yeah this seems more focused
Shame. I’ve PM’d a few people and had good conversations.
Sure, but did you at least add context about why you’re messaging them? Like some comment or post they made that you liked and you wanted to talk about similar stuff?
Because that would be kind of normal. That’s what private messages are for. But this one is just bait.
Yeah just a question or a word of encouragement or a recommendation so it didn’t seem like I was advertising. I like most things to be publicly posted but not everything. If Lemmy gets a bunch of bot spam PMs, legit ones will be less likely to get a response.
I imagine speed limits will be put on DMs at some point in the future. There’s no reason to have it wide open so you can firehose multiple people with the same message.
Like, if you’re sending a message to someone and they reply back, you can immediately reply back, back-and-forth, as fast as you want. Other than that, you should only be able to send a message once every five or ten minutes.
Even weirder, a user named “sognar” was posting their picture as a comment.
Seemed odd to me… Comment is removed now.
Oh so that’s why, I reverse searched the image earlier and it linked to that post. Looks like there is another image on that profile now
Probably the bot owner setting it up and doing a test post?
Created the same day so seems likely.
Also, the spammer linked above is now banned.
Interestingly there is a reddit user named Korvin-lin-sognar, who posts lots of pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine, pro-Trump, etc. you name it content on reddit and twitter.
They are also in IT with strong webdev skills, and possibly have an exemption from conscription for working more than a year in a Russian IT company(or are angry it doesn’t apply to them?)
Just saying if I was a Russian foreign agent (or troll) trying to use bots to fish and setup a troll farm on lemmy/Fediverse, I’d probably look a like like this netizen.
Edit: I’ve now been messaged by the sognar account as well as the original missy29. Interesting that the message has changed to include links now. Did anyone else get contacted by sognar?
I did, and it’s still there. I isolated the png because it was obviously a suspicious message and realized what they were doing, and wasn’t sure if viewing anything without caution might be a problem.
I’ve had a few messages in the past, general greetings out of the blue, but not with this much “bait”. I still haven’t figured out how to delete a PM in Mbin (there are no options anywhere that I see), so there they sit.
Long press to bring up options? That works for me in Boost to report PMs.
Can’t do a long press on desktop. :/ For what it’s worth, you posted that both got banned, but they still show in my messages, so it seems pretty permanent. Maybe I’ll look around at Mbin’s dev and see if it’s a known bug…I mean, feature.
Might be a federation issue too. The missy29 message in my inbox was removed, but my reply is still there.
Admins have now banned both accounts for spam!
Yep!
Here’s round two for me:
My first message from missy also had links, didn’t think to screenshot it, definitely did not click on them, but I think they at least looked the same…
Or come hang out with us at room/hell
– Comedy Heaven
Thanks for the heads up! I never PM anyone on social media platforms unless I’ve met them in real life and they expressed actual openness to talking to me.
I got the same lol
Same here.
Me too.
