⚠️ Scam - Check your followers
What scam?
You may discover someone following you claiming to be either Israeli or Palestinian, with only 1 or 2 post claiming they need money, along with a heart-filled story.
It is a scam because it is the same story (I noticed 4 versions of the same story) and with the same links (I spotted 7). All this over a span of 15 different accounts.
They end up following 100's of people and they do not post anything other than the same post. The goal is someone will see their profile, believe the story, feel bad, and send them some money. We have the same type of scam on Facebook.
#Scam #Misskey #Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Facebook #ActivityPub
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2025-01-01 14:57:35
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2025-01-01 14:57:35Event JSON
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