Hey guys, Nicole the fediverse chick is back! She seems lonely

Someday am actual human woman is going to approach me and start talking and I'm going to assume she's a bot
- Hello fellow human, would you like to see my fleshy human vagina?
  
  fleshy human vagina?
  Both accurate and horrifying.

I got my dm from the bot just a bit ago! I feel all loved now :)
- Same, feels like I matter
  
  Got mine as well. Glad to see I'm not alone on the bot list of targets.

So real talk, what exactly is the angle here? Are these rogue instances in the links? Truly just trying to bait in the lonely and gullible to eventually solicit payment down the line?
It just seems ... weird for a romance bait scam. Average looking woman (though could be to lower guards), links to Fediverse service profiles rather than botted DM exchanges, etc.
I could just be being naive, but idk. There's a very particular brand of fishy to this, beyond the obvious. The other probable scammer I dealt with at least came with a sob story that I could see being more effective (end of his rope humanitarian worker in an African country, children dying due to lack of $ for the program).
- I watched the stream, it was just a very long looped video of the girl in the photo, looked the same one day later. It seems like it's been deleted today. The Friendica profile also nothing extraordinary. I guess the scam should be on the chat, it required one more click after opening the site, and I never heard of this stumblechat, so I didn't bother. After some searching I can't find a lot info on this Stumblechat, it definitely has nothing to do with the fediverse.

She just sent me a third DM. This one had a different picture! She's obviously really into me.
- Well it's like they say: Once you go Sergio.... uh... everyone else is incognito.

Yes ok but you don't need to be doing their job for them. Blur that shit.
- Why? Why respect the privacy of a spambot?
  
  It's not about respecting the privacy of a spambot. it's about doing their job for them. The bot wants their links and their advert to be seen by as many eyeballs as possible. Guess what the OP just achieved? Blur all links next time.

This shows that lemmy is a mature social media now! It has its own OF bots!
- there a fediverse equivalent of OF? 👀
  
  The googly eyes make this post.

I didn't get a message this time, I think we broke up :'(
- Same. I thought what we had was special 😭
  
  Nnnnoooooo. Have you tried mailing her gift cards?

Yes, please do. Just make sure to send her the "correct" one, or it might be bad for her if she got the "wrong" one, whoopsie!

I got this today, I looked at it but it hasn't vanished from my messages list. Bloody annoying.

I looked at this thread and then my notifications. It was there but hadn't notified me yet, said 23 seconds ago. Weird timing.

The French of jlailu received it as well today.
We felt without l’amour, but now we have it back hon hon hon.

I got this today, is this like a thing that's been going around for a while?
- A few days ago and then again today.

I can't believe that my own copy of this spam is how I found out that we have lemmy <-> mbin dms working now lmao

TIL there is a Toronto in Poland.
- She is Polish, possibly from Poland, and now lives in Toronto Canada. Is how I understand it.
  
  Probably the case. It would be quite the coincidence if Toronto, Poland also had a Toronto Metropolitan University...

I actually have ~~two~~ three messages from the scammer. Both the exact same text from different accounts. Both reported.
Just got a new one from nicole@feddit.rocks

now im kinda concerned that i haven't got a spambot message on fedi yet, when i have on every other platform.
guess im doing something wrong or not posting enough or something.

Why would you catfish with the fugliest chick?
- Plausibility? If the photo like a model or something, everyone would know something’s up. But if it’s of an average-looking woman, you can imagine it’s some awkward nerd chick who might well share your nerdy interests.
  
  That looks like a dude in a wig lol