I spent some time creating this mind map to sum up everything you'd want to know about the scam messages, as well as the common theories. I will try to keep it updated. If you have anything to add to this or critique, please let me know.
Might take a while to load, it's a very high res image. Here's a link alternative: https://files.catbox.moe/csls12.jpg
This should be obvious, but due to the recent developments I want to have this here as a warning:
Don't send the scammer any money, even as a joke.
Ok, i've been thinking about this since the first time i received a nicole spam message because of the timing and what i was i doing and saying at that moment on another lemmy account and maybe i'm just paranoid, but you don't go and pull a pig butchering scam on a platform like this or any scam that is so obvious.
What i think is this is a mass surveilance attempt and in this thread https://lemmy.today/post/25826615 someone try to explain what might be happening. The bitcoin scam and everything else are probably a decoys in my opinion.
I could be wrong but this is all too fishy.