Die #Auswertung des Monats #September fehlt noch. Insgesamt 11mal schrillte der Melder zum Alarm. Etwas weniger als letztes Jahr. Auch in diesem Monat bleibt der Mittwoch der heißeste Tag. Ungewöhnliche Häufung am Sonntag. Ist sonst der Wochentag mit den wenigsten Einsätzen (ca. 2/3 weniger als werktags). Und fünf Tage am Stück ohne Einsatz ist auch schon fast normal. Häufigstes Stichwort TH (ca. 2/3, nicht im Bild).
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Apple's AirTags are pretty great, but only if you're an iPhone user. For Android users, I recommend the Chipolo One Point, which is down to an all-time low price right now.
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⚠️ Apparently there's a scammer sending out messages "offering a partnership" if people "verify" their account at a special link. They may use a profile icon that looks like the Mastodon logo with a headset.
The account is fake, the link is a scam, do not click on it. There is no "partnership" scheme on here, you cannot earn money for posting.
If you get one of these messages, click the ... icon on the scam post and then click "report".
you can get money for posting, it's just not official, not paid by Mastodon gGmbH, not much like 5 ct per post and in many countries it's not legal. payment is in bitcoin or by some shady "culture club" with or without a line over several nodes to some government.
So if someone with technical expertise gets such a message on a throwaway account and feels brave... would be interesting if it's just some ordinary scam or if there are more interesting actors behind.
It is 100% a scam, it is using the same format and same profile picture as previous scams that tried to con people into "verifying" so their account could be "activated".
Verification doesn't work like that on Mastodon, they are just trying to con people into giving their card details.
didn't mean to say you could verify an account that way. At least not to anything related to mastodon specifically.
if I'd be a government and want to buy some agitprop props for cheap I'd be very interested in plausible deniability. And what's a better cover than "it's just ordinary scam by some criminals" to disguise gov involvement? 🤣
🤔 Guess I'd let accounts falling for the "job offer" get checked by human beings if there is a chance to hire them, in most cases accounts will simply be hijacked or card details will be used to raise the shadow budget of 3-4 letter agencies, also helps to strengthen the it's-ordinary-scammers-story and the others will get a serious job offer 🤔 actually that would be quite genius 🤯
Also seeing ID verification link scam being sent to hackaday.io users claiming that some new US law means your projects will be hidden from everyone until you click some off-site verification link.
Sorry to hear 😞 Please do report these and if you can see the option to forward the report select that option too, so that it goes to the server where the spammer's account is. (The scam accounts get shut down more quickly if reports are forwarded.)
Swift and Moore are from the Mount Airy neighborhood in Philadelphia, while Zaccheaus grew up nearby in New Jersey and played with Swift in high school. All three find it surreal to be playing together in the NFL more than a decade later.
h.c. Qrawallschachtel
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •you can get money for posting, it's just not official, not paid by Mastodon gGmbH, not much like 5 ct per post and in many countries it's not legal. payment is in bitcoin or by some shady "culture club" with or without a line over several nodes to some government.
So if someone with technical expertise gets such a message on a throwaway account and feels brave... would be interesting if it's just some ordinary scam or if there are more interesting actors behind.
Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to h.c. Qrawallschachtel • • •It is 100% a scam, it is using the same format and same profile picture as previous scams that tried to con people into "verifying" so their account could be "activated".
Verification doesn't work like that on Mastodon, they are just trying to con people into giving their card details.
h.c. Qrawallschachtel
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •didn't mean to say you could verify an account that way. At least not to anything related to mastodon specifically.
if I'd be a government and want to buy some agitprop props for cheap I'd be very interested in plausible deniability. And what's a better cover than "it's just ordinary scam by some criminals" to disguise gov involvement? 🤣
🤔 Guess I'd let accounts falling for the "job offer" get checked by human beings if there is a chance to hire them, in most cases accounts will simply be hijacked or card details will be used to raise the shadow budget of 3-4 letter agencies, also helps to strengthen the it's-ordinary-scammers-story and the others will get a serious job offer 🤔 actually that would be quite genius 🤯
Simon Zerafa (Status: 🙂🖥️🪛💾)
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •I've seen this over the past few days in small numbers.
Using the Unicode formatting makes it slightly less easy for admins to find and block accounts but not impossible, if they look! 👀🙂🖖
Echoing Frog
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •Bornach
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Bornach • • •@bornach
Yeah, the same people did a similar scam when ID verification laws were popping up in Europe.
They seem to bank on people vaguely seeing stuff about ID on news bulletins, and using that as a cover.
Ivey Janette McClelland
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •I've been targeted multiple times recently.
And I've been here 3 years.
Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Ivey Janette McClelland • • •@IveyJanette
Sorry to hear 😞 Please do report these and if you can see the option to forward the report select that option too, so that it goes to the server where the spammer's account is. (The scam accounts get shut down more quickly if reports are forwarded.)
Ivey Janette McClelland
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •HumToTable
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •