Nicole [LOCKED]

Can't directly reply to https://feddit.org/post/9414518/5879894 because my instance doesn't want to pull that comment, so please excuse me posting it top level

Are we sure if all Nicole messages are from the same person? The ones with crypto addresses may be a copycat, trying to make money from a scam that was originally designed for something else. The abundance of accounts makes that hard to track.

The most recent photo includes a carton of Del Monte Orange Morning Sunshine juice which is available at Costco Canada. In Europe, they use a different design. So if this is a case of someone stealing someone else's photos, they at least seem to get the location right.

i love everything about this.. huge diagram fan..

my only criticism is the lack of mbin... ive been nicoled ~5 times directly on an mbin instance.

only really pertinent because im on a small instance with ~ 180 user accounts. how does she knooooow

I can add a few data points.... https://lemmy.ca/u/fujinamilo was the nicole spammer on lemmy.ca, they used this account to test getting through filters. They logged into it from a VPN, and logged out (destroyed their session) when they were done.

They seem to message in batches of users, notice how both batches went to the same users in the same order at the top here: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b40f9e02-a162-4e56-8b5e-79b563a786c9.png

They like to spam the same users repeatedly: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ffd36fbd-2452-4806-960a-6d291b9c6d1a.png

Seeing as they actively joined lemmy.ca and tried to get through my filters after I made a post about them, it's reasonable to say they're watching us and probably having a lot of fun playing with everyone. Have we tried just asking for an AMA?

What Mindmap software is that? It looks really cool

The first one I received here was about a month ago from "missy29" at lemmings.world. Body of the message still said "Nicole" though, with some very early boilerplate text.

For completeness sake, I've also gotten from a nicole101 and a nicole40.

If we could get the IP and email addresses from instance admins it could help figure this out.

Is it perhaps someone rolling out a relatively harmless spam across Lemmy to get Lemmy to improve its moderation tools?

Excellent, despite not using ISO 8601 date formats!

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.

What tool did you use btw. Looks amazing.

Edit: oh ok, figma.

It would be really cool if Lemmy, or some similar ActivityPub platform, could host brainstorming apps like that.

I remember being part of r/celebritynumbersix and it was basically impossible to maintain any kind of database.

in friendica, her profile shows a work address

How can I see the language or my account? My instance is PT-BR

The crypto scam may be a copycat. If you sort by new in this community, the latest messages don't have a crypto address in it.

@FQQD

i got a message from a Nicole47...
what is ARG?

I got one with crypto addresses for "donations" for the first time today. That seems to be a new addition, messages from 2, 3, and 5 weeks ago didn't have them.

I have also received some "alternate" versions from pseudo-random usernames (ones not on your chart) from the sh.itjust.works instance. Mostly the same copy as always, but delivered entirely in an image rather than image+text. Thought that was interesting.