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Hello world,

as many of you may already be aware, there is an ongoing spam attack by a person claiming to be Nicole.

It is very likely that these images are part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted in the images shared as part of this spam.

Although the spammer claims to be the person in the picture, we strongly believe that this is not the case and that they're only trying to frame them.

Starting immediately, we will remove any images depicting "Nicole" and information that may lead to identifying the real person depicted in those images to prevent any possible harassment.
This includes older posts and comments once identified.

We also expect moderators to take action if such content is reported.

While we do not intend to punish people posting this once, not being aware of the context, we may take additional actions if they continue to post this content, as we consider this to be supporting the harassment campaign.

Discussion that does not include the images themselves or references that may lead to identifying the real person behind the image will continue to be allowed.

If you receive spam PMs please continue reporting them and we'll continue working on our spam detections to attempt to identify them early before they reach many users.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Weird, I’d assumed it was just AI generated? What makes people think it’s harassment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone floated the idea, others liked the idea, started sharing the idea and once it made full circle, everyone was sure it's harassment.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone that is monolithic in a space without broad scope comments and presence is fake or potentially dangerous. No one would be posting in Lemmy, in this context of supposed community building without having a presence here. There are several people that come to mind that could legitimately post that they are "the fediverse Squid Legend" but all of these have a major footprint on Lemmy.

There is also a sketchy tracker link attached to the images, but I don't think any of us are really able to say what exactly is happening with this. Like I finally got one of the messages a few days ago and my whitelist firewall logged the sketchy link. Someone else scanned that link in a security context which flagged it as suspicious. As far as I know, that is all that is known about what is underpinning the messages from the network side. Admins likely know more.

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[–] Squirrelanna 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To clarify for others, as I have no interest in doing this myself, but if people feel like sharing, are they allowed to do so provided they censor the pictire/remove it entirely from a screenshot? Not sure why someone would, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

potentially identifying information, such as addresses, must be removed. images of the person must either be heavily pixelated or entirely cut out.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I figured it was a phishing scheme, but harassment campaign also makes sense. Good to know

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Was just about to delete the comment that had screenshots in it but I see that was already removed (I've also deleted it off of my profile too, and deleted comments that contain links to threads which include the photos). I'm not entirely well versed on the Lemmy software, but is there any way for the Fediverse to block or potentially identify the person behind the "Nicole" accounts via IP/browser/automated systems or something?

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