At this point, it’s become a bit meme on Reddit to share the creepy or disgusting DMs you receive. However, nothing like that has happened to me here yet, even though I’ve been active for the equivalent of three or four of those pervy chat invitations on Reddit. I’m no less active here.

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[–] 175 points 14 hours ago (23 children)

Oh man you missed out on Nicole the fediverse chick

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  • [–] 23 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

    i don't think we never knew if it was her or someone else using her pictures pretending to be her

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  • [–] 19 points 13 hours ago

    I actually dug into her (I was bored) and ended up finding her. The photo was really old but she seems to be doing well. Idk what the point of the message spam was though or why they'd use her picture

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  • [–] 25 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    I'm 51% sure it was spam/malware. I feel like I recall reading something that said something along the lines of they were sending messages out so that when the picture loaded they'd get location/ip data of the users who opened the message

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  • [–] 18 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

    I still hold the fact that she contacted me as a badge of honor

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    Someone was DMing people pictures of a woman with a typical "Hi I'm Nicole, lets chat" type of message. At first people were sharing the dm's to laugh at the obvious scam, and it was an achievement if you a) got a message at all and b) got a new photo. However we soon realized there were many too many different similar "webcam" style pictures to be some random lady a scammer/troll pulled of facebook or something.

    Supposeldy, people started digging and found a live stream, and that led to other issues with a flood of random people asking her about Lemmy (not sure if that part is true).

    Anyway, we started to suspect it was some disgruntled ex or crazy viewer sending the messages who was either screenshoting a live stream or a hacked webcam.

    Admins decided clear out all posts about her to stop the attention so people would leave the actual lady alone and discourge anything similar.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    I got DMs from "her" also. A while back there was someone who would send pictures of herself (not graphic in any way) and try to initiate conversations... Lots of them. I forgot what the pretext was and also the intent, but "she" had to go. You don't want to be like "her."

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  • [–] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    I got messages from that account, but none of them were creepy, disgusting, or pervy. They seemed like a social experiment or some such.

    I didn't reply though. Maybe people who interacted with the account got something more explicit.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    That was some fucked up snuff ending. I often think about that time in lemmy history, really try not to bring her up and refer to her as "she who must not be named".

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    I remember "her" but I don't recall the ending. To me it just kinda went away with a blip.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Not gonna say much besides it was grim. Then lemmy instances joined together and banned the user, whoever it was and started blocking the image. Soon after there seemed to be a general consensus across the board to stop talking about her/them. To stop feeding whatever they were doing. And the fediverse moved on.

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