I like how Nichole’s last message to Lemmy was just a bunch of crypto wallets and some lame, one-sentence excuse for why we should fill them.
I wonder if it was a romance scam.
It sure seemed like one, yeah. One unusual thing is that there was apparently a Discord channel with multiple marks in it at once.
The general consensus was that it was a pig butchering scheme
i wonder if anyone tech savvy enough to use lemmy ever actually fell for that lol
Dumbest AND most genius: Fake captchas that get the user to press windows+R, then control+C, then enter.
Dumbest because if you paid attention to what’s being pasted, it’s usually a call to power shell with an arbitrary script, and it’s being pasted into your OS’s run box which is basically like a console.
But also genius because there are tons of people that fall for it, and it’s a social engineering masterpiece.
John Hammond with more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSa_wHW1pgQ
This really highlights two systemic issues: tons of people don’t know what they’re doing with computers and don’t know basic security concepts like don’t run an arbitrary script from an untrusted website, and we should probably do something about that. Which brings me to the second point that Windows is pretty ass for making it this easy. Why can you run an encoded power shell script from your run box, and why would you make bypassing the execution policy as easy as a flag in the command you’re invoking? I can’t imagine those have a lot of legitimate uses and aren’t just being abused by criminals.
There was a person last year going around to websites posting a whole bunch of hastily-made .onion single-page scam websites that essentially just say “Pay $10 to this bitcoin address for the service”. They’d post a series of links, like:
Facebook hacking:
http://fakew3b5173b14hb14hb14h3kjfu4.onion/
Love potion spell
http://fakew3b5173b14hb14hb14hfspopd.onion/
Mystery box
http://fakew3b5173b14hb14hb14fine9ffewh.onion/
[…]
Not only are many of these scam services played out and pretty obvious, like pretending they will hack facebook accounts for $25, and not only were many others ridiculous like a love potion spell, satanic spells, a “mystery box” that you pay $10 to find out what’s in it, but their shotgun approach of listing them all in a single post makes it obvious how fake and desperate it is. I’d be amazed if anyone fell for it, but they kept hand-posting these for months until site owners manually blocked them.
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Any religion that ever was, is or will be. Dumb for the people that fall for it, smart for the people that run it.
Iraqi dinar
the company i work for
