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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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[-] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

to be honest, this should have been done way earlier.

[-] 5too@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Still glad you're doing it now!

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I saw a theory a while back that the IPs which receive the various images get logged allowing the recipients accounts to be tied to an IP and possibly even a physical address based on the timeframe it was sent. Is that a real concern or just conspiracy, do you think?

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I find it difficult to believe there are enough fediverse users not using a VPN at all times to make that effort worthwhile.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

most people don't. the only device I have that runs a VPN 24/7 is a laptop that seeds
I use a VPN on everything else if I'm doing something sketchy though

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

everyone should be more like me :3

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

yeah that's fair, I probably should use it more but it's just kinda annoying

[-] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That appears to be a baseless conspiracy theory.

Except for the gore pms, I believe all the images have been uploaded to Lemmy instances or Imgur, which means that the uploader has no way to track IPs accessing those images. The gore images were uploaded to another service that at least on the surface appears to be another regular image hoster that wouldn't expose IP access logs to uploaders.

[-] Aphelion@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

I don't think its baseless given that anyone can set up their own Lemmy instance to host the PM'd images.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Gore wait wtf where does gore come in, is that if you play along with the ctfish?

this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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