If you know that's an invalid IP address, you're probably less likely to fall for the scam after the scammer has put the setup work in. So if they filter you out before a scammer has to spend any actual effort on you, that means more time they can spend scamming people who might be more likely to fall for it

That's why these things often have egregious spelling errors and other seemingly obvious red flags

[–] zo0@programming.dev 74 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Just because I know what a valid IP is doesn't mean I'm not an idiot 😎

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Let's see you write a regex for one, then we'll decide.

[–] zitrone@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

lemme try

(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|[1-9]?[0-9])(\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|[1-9]?[0-9])){3}

tbh i have seen the stackoverflow solutions so i kinda know what i needed to do

this is entirely typed out from brain tho

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I'm currently on my phone and I'm not going to try to figure out how to test regex on Graphene. Therefore I can only say: well done!

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