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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing.... and it worked!

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

I got a message from that one too!

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago
[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

I got messages from this one too... Kept trying to get me to switch to zangi to talk to it

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

@shadow@lemmy.ca

potential bot account. Probably best to check?

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

Already taken care of :)

[–] supermurs@kbin.earth 3 points 11 months ago

Awesome, happy to see your trick worked!

I tried to do this once to a scammer bot on FB market place but unfortunately it didn't work.

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