Nicole [LOCKED]

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Due to recent developments, we've had to lock down this community until further notice. For more information, please take a look at this post: https://feddit.org/post/10515288

Thank you for your understanding.

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This community will be locked down until further notice (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FQQD@feddit.org to c/nicole@feddit.org

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What happened?

Due to the recent developments, I have decided to make this community moderator-only. There has been a mass spam attack involving gore and nudity. This is now a very serious situation and it is clear that something has to be done to stop this from happening. The new messages might be from a different, psychopathic spammer.

What we decided to do about it

To have better control of this situation, we decided to lock down the community, except for the comment section on this very post. (Please let me know if I've missed a post)

Rules

Please refrain to further spread the newest spam image, especially uncensored versions of it.
The "It's my girlfriend!"-joke is long gone. Be respectful, stop using it.

Going forward

Our main goal now is to stop the spread of spam on Lemmy. This seems like a major problem in Lemmy's concept, so we need to work together to create a working solution to the spam and potential defacing of users.

Update: The source of the gore images has been identified, so it's safe to say it's not actually the same person as "Nicole". Still fucked up, though.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Just wanted to report that the latest Nicole spam I received 10 min ago is asking for crypto "donations".
So this may be finally the reason for the phishing, getting crypto donations from gullible people.

Looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/....png (the usual stolen webcam shot and description)

Please donate to help me pay for next semester!

BTC: ...

LTC: ...

XMR: ...

By the way, has anyone contacted Imgur about this? I think they would take it pretty seriously.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I got one just now as well. I suspect it might even be a different person using the Nicole spam as a cover?

Edit: does anyone know, are there any plans to allow users to disable DMs? It feels like it should be a basic privacy feature and would have stopped all this. Mastodon has the same issue (apparently there's an option to stop non followers DMing you, but I can't find it).

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

...i received the same message yesterday with a new image, so i suspect it's the original spammer finally firing his payload...

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 24 minutes ago

more Nicole spam

This was the username (already reported). The Nicole text was part of the image (green text on black) and the message body was the bitcoin IDs. I find targeting the Fediverse for this type of scam to be a bit pointless. I doubt there are many people on here who would fall for this sort of scam. The only advantage I can see to targeting the Fediverse is the inability to restrict private messages.

I got the message a few mins after logging on. Both times on Lemmy, I got the Nicole spam when online (I can't remember if that was the case on Mastodon). I don't know if that's coincidence.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

It's clearly not the same as the gore spammer if real nicole spam is still happening