She wants to become the MySpace Tom of the Fediverse.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Oh what's the name of this scam...? John Oliver did a thing on them. It's basically a long game confidence trick.
Compare it to the 419 scam, aka the Nigerian Prince. They blast out a message to every living thing in the virgo supercluster that "You could be rich if you act on this RIGHT NOW." The message has intentionally bad grammar and such to immediately ward smart people away and only catch the dumb ones. "Wire us a few thousand dollars to cover some paperwork costs and fees and the 2.6 million will be yours." They interact with you for maybe an hour.
People caught onto this and have been specifically trained to look out for and avoid it. Strangers asking for money is now a red flag. So what they do now is they pretend to be a friend. You find them in personals, interest groups, whatever. They start talking to you, you make a friend. They spend weeks or months chatting with you, maybe budding a romance. They do their homework, things check out. Eventually they mention in conversation that they just bought an expensive thing with the money they made in some investment. "Really, what investment?" you're obviously going to ask. "Oh I trade penny stocks with this app." They never ask you for money, they just show you how to download an app from the Play store, which is there, it's legit, there's supposed to be some kind of vetting process on the Android Play Store or the Apple App Store...right? You "invest" some money, then it and your friend suddenly vanish.
And you get people on TV saying "I thought we had a real connection. I'm out several hundred thousand dollars."
Even this one has an element of filtering for the dumb. We’re all here laughing because “who would fall for this?” That’s a feature, not a bug. They want the ones that would bite on this. And then the long con starts.
Its called Pig Butchering
That's the one.
Great explanation, thank you
It's a spam testing method.
The instances that do not react at all will be targeted for stuff. I don't know what stuff but there will be stuff.
I'm in Toronto area, I'm sure someone at that college can confirm if this student exists. I'm in my 30s so not me.
I’m in my 30s so not me.
Doubts. You are Nicole. Prove me wrong.
We are all nicole on this blessed day
Maybe there's a 2nd person who doesn't likes her and they're spamming her face everywhere so she gets a bad reputation?
Which is odd, because anyone with two brain cells to rub together would realise her photos are likely being used without her permission.
As far as I understand it, this is pretty much the scenario. Or a psycho stalker out for revenge or some shit.
Yeah, we're making fun of this but it must be terrifying.
In most cases of such messages the end goal is for you to invest in some crypto investment scam. There are scam centers in south east asia full of slaves who are chatting with you, flirt with you and then are giving you investment advice or try to get money from you
Damn. I wonder how the next waves in a few months will look. Thanks for answering
She’ll be leaning up against a Bentley, fanning herself with hundred dollar bills (fake, of course, but we won’t be able to tell that from the photo).
Each DM she sends is a dollar to her bank account.
A year later she'll send a video from her 7 yachts, and spam it across the fediverse for old times sake.
I think we should unravel the mystery of Nicole. I'm thinking of something like that:
I've gotten 25%. We need to form a coalition, an alliance between lemmy admins to figure out this mystery.
I'll get the marijuana and coffee.
25% of what?
25% of the mystery. I'm almost down to the bottom of this huffs paint thinner
I discovered this community a few hours ago and I absolutely love the theories.
Only serious nicole theorizing here. I'm thinking she's a CIA plant
This might be the background story: https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/b71fb661-29b3-4015-9645-0f2823604ae3.png
Oh no, I got nicolerolled.
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(Damn I fell right into that one)
Oh yeah, if someone has higher resolution pics, or a banner image, contact me :3
That's a rare Nicole right there.
Hahahahaha! Got me.
A matrix room [full of racists :/]
What is "nicole's" long game?
this IS the long game
Oh my god, i can't believe nicole would do this. I should've known she's building an army of racists, to revive exploding heads D:
Yup. Channeling all that sexual frustration and turning it into anger towards brown people. Bad Nicole! Bad!
Very un-PC, someone should ban her D:<
I think when I googled her she has a YouTube channel where she makes videos about doing it.
There was a video stream on peertube on 4d2's servers, so I contacted their team (as I happened to have made a matrix on their instance recently) and they shut it down😅
I think it was a loop playing again and again with her just existing(??)
Interesting. Do you have a link? I couldn't find it