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Hello world,

as many of you may already be aware, there is an ongoing spam attack by a person claiming to be Nicole.

It is very likely that these images are part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted in the images shared as part of this spam.

Although the spammer claims to be the person in the picture, we strongly believe that this is not the case and that they're only trying to frame them.

Starting immediately, we will remove any images depicting "Nicole" and information that may lead to identifying the real person depicted in those images to prevent any possible harassment.
This includes older posts and comments once identified.

We also expect moderators to take action if such content is reported.

While we do not intend to punish people posting this once, not being aware of the context, we may take additional actions if they continue to post this content, as we consider this to be supporting the harassment campaign.

Discussion that does not include the images themselves or references that may lead to identifying the real person behind the image will continue to be allowed.

If you receive spam PMs please continue reporting them and we'll continue working on our spam detections to attempt to identify them early before they reach many users.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What kind of a loser does this to someone?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My hypothesis is, someone's trying to run a "Hey statistically lonely men on the internet, I'm allegedly a girl. Send me money in hopes of getting attention" scam, and they're using the pictures of "Nicole" because that's what they have at hand. I'm picturing a college classmate capturing college Zoom classes so they have several different pictures of the same girl. What others are attributing to sick malice I'm attributing to callous disregard.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! It was getting bad.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The community should also be burned to the ground. If it still exists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Echoing everyone else in that it seemed kind of funny at first but that it has just turned weirder.

I think it's a good call. I will report if I receive any messages.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Thankfully I haven't received one of the gore ones I've seen people talking about, but yeah I'll stop participating in the meme, it's not as a fun anymore.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I just got a new one this morning from another person calling themself Jessica. I'm also not sure if the report button works for anything but posts in a comm with Jerboa :/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh right I remembering reporting someone for DMβ€˜ing me the Nicole picture last week after learning the account wasnβ€˜t even a day old. Good to know things like this are being taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

The real fediverse chick was that newly hatched chicken someone posted pics of.

Often imitated, never duplicated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I question if it is even harassment since there was no contact info beyond the sender in the messages I got with this pic. There was no identifying info, etc. It seemed like someone just sent me a random photo and it was very bizarre.

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