"Listen. And understand. Nicole is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are phished!"

There is always that vanishingly small chance this is a real person confused as to why nobody responds and their accounts keep getting banned. :-)

I still don't see any settings to block PMs on the mbin side. I would at least like to filter to people I follow or something with the option to fully disable PMs.

FFS got another one after posting this.

Its started hitting the microblogging side of the fediverse.

You can add me on Friendica

Well that's a huge red flag right there. Nobody uses Friendica.

You'd doubt the Fediverse Chick‽

I've blocked like five of their accounts. I wish there was a setting that would block PMs/chats. Anyone who wants to talk to me can do it in public.

Who thought "you can call me fediverse chick" would work? Please tell me no one has fallen for this fucking thing.

I wonder what this bot is trying to do. The friendica being just a weird profile, the discord just had a bunch of confused basement dwellers and I haven't seen any creepy links trying to rob us..

I got only one, but I didn't block it so we'll see.

It's a shame people can't just seek out friends at random for real, but in this day and age it's obviously a scam.

Granted, Lemmy people... idk, I guess a Lemmy friend is the kind you dm when you accidentally break your Linux. Or idk, discuss Marxism? Lol

After hearing about this for months, I have finally also been the recipient of them xD

I just find it most amusing that their room for chatting is "hell"

I reported this bot twice.

I've gotten 4 or 5 messages from this bot, also since about january.

Got a few myself! Looks like whoever is behind it keep registering on different instances.

Would be interesting to know why they do it

I got it, too, banned the sender, and deleted it as it was obviously a scam. But now that it seems to come back, what was it about, actually? Do they just want to harvest data, or what did they want?

I've only ever received one from them. One of the fediverse's flaws is no central blacklist so if your instance isn't moderated well and actively you're gonna have a bad time.

I think I remember them talking about tools and lists to share between instances but idk what the progress is on that or who was in charge of it.

What's the purpose of such a message?

I could swear the photos were different for me, but yes I also got the "friend request"

Ugh I know. Do I look like I'm after something like that? Stupid bots.

Wow so many people got it.

Not Nigerian enough.

I "finally" got one as well.