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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[–] 27 points 18 hours ago (4 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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  • [–] 16 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    I like that your hunch barely secured a majority

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