• qarbone@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I hope this is resolved and, if this has stolen and repurposed photos of some person, the perpetrator is penalized.

    This is hyper-fuckin-weird.

  • NotLemming@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    She’s either autistic or the victim of some kind of obsessional person. Imagine a friendship or relationship ending and you use the photos and personal info you have to… Make the person a laughing stock? Ruin their reputation? Make them a cult weirdo? All without this person knowing. Or maybe the plan is for her to find out eventually? I think she looks eastern European.

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      8 hours ago

      This left me thinking. What if the person behind this actually has nudes of her, but is waiting for critical mass or even her identity to come up before extortion? She could be getting blackmailed already for all we know, “look, every day more and more people are getting familiar with your looks… Would be a shame if those nudes got leaked”

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        9 hours ago

        Also how is this possibly ruining their reputation? it’s not sexually suggestive, links don’t work, and it’s plain obvious whoever is in the photo is also not the person sending the messages

    • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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      19 hours ago

      I was inclined to believe it could be a pig-butchering scam, but your theory is just as plausible. One of the reasons I’ll never post photos online.

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        18 hours ago

        If some kind of money based scam was going on, the perpetrator would be a criminal. This way, are they a criminal? Is impersonation with no financial gain or fraud a crime? It’s like revenge porn but there’s no porn. What wrongdoing is being committed under the law?

        • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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          18 hours ago

          It seems to depend on location, but from what I could find, impersonation does go against the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 which is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Unless the account owner is using a VPN, it’s possible the instance administrators could see where the account owner is based via IP. If it is against the law where the account owner is based, the authorities could contact the account owner’s ISP. Under certain conditions the ISP may tell the authorities exactly which address held that IP at a given time.

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    17 hours ago

    Nah I have another theory.

    It’s not a scam but a lousy attempt to create the Fediverse ARG (alternate reality game).

    But the poor creator keeps getting blocked 😞

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    20 hours ago

    I’ve had DMs from Nicole40 and Nicole76 in the past 24 hours, and just plain Nicole about a week ago. What an oddity.

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        22 hours ago

        Yea, this looks like something from a laptop webcam. It could either be from multiple calls or possibly malware taking photos. But it has to happen over an extended period of time, since the clothes change inbetween some pictures.

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      22 hours ago

      Does she actually have a Twitch account? Or is it another fake account?

      I’ve gotten 3 more DMs in the past 2 days