Davis: PSA: LABELERS WORK! The @profile-labels.bossett.social labeler just tipped me off to a scam before I wasted any time (or money!). When Lars won the #mayllennial prize money, I asked where to send it, and a scammer quickly imitated them and was outed by the new account / no display name labels 🙂

PSA: LABELERS WORK! The @profile-labels.bossett.social labeler just tipped me off to a scam before I wasted any time (or money!). When Lars won the #mayllennial prize money, I asked where to send it, and a scammer quickly imitated them and was outed by the new account / no display name labels 🙂

Also, I want to plug the @aimod.social labeler. We have a great team that takes the labeling seriously and keeps the ai images away from our timelines 🙂

yes and also no one uses outlook dot com

that was the biggest red flag tbh

...im being attacked

it's ok outlook.com.au doesn't count

with a name like jerry chen, im betting youre a yahoo user

...just realized why that popped into my head, okay

don't worry we get that all the time in the asian jerrys chat

i have had yahoo, hotmail, aol email addresses

my xbox account is tied to my aol address so I can never be free

he's had email addresses you people wouldn't believe...

Lol. I was thinking of Hotmail this morning. Remembered when Microsoft bought them, moved from FreeBSD to NT and it couldn't handle it.

funny how all three of these popped into my head for you, just yahoo the strongest for.. reasons

That's totally more than that :)

Glad to hear you didn't get got by this guy, I've been combatting him for the last few months but since DMs were a thing he's primarily moved his trade to scamming people there so I can't see it 😭

UGH

I love that this labeler will tell me if someone is named Stephanie and I can choose to hide all users named Stephanie

I could be wrong but I think that’s a special label for one person named Stephanie 😂

Thank you Davis, that is correct. There is a Jeremy label for all jeremys though

That’s amazing 😂

Still though 🤣

My actual legal dead name is that :0 I go by Bo. Just wondering but is the name linked to bad stuff? I never liked my name.

The Stephanie label is a silly thing, not a punishment thing. A joke for a friend.

Ah gottcha :)

Holy F all of this. 1. Thanks for labeling indeed 2. Always check thrice who you're getting replies from 😧

Wow. That’s pretty brazen.

Pretty fast too. Snagged the pfp, a username matching Lars’ display name, etc.

They probably have a script to rapid-fire assemble a new account and pounce on stuff like this.

Yeah you’re probably right. Enough people use a labeled like that one and it’ll hamstring their business model.

they do, frequently there are accounts staged to impersonate someone at a moment's notice

*sighs loudly and subscribes to labeler*

thank you for telling me about this I'm using it immediately!!

if only labelers were only being used for things like this instead of also being used to badjacket CSA survivors and anti-genocide advocates

bossetts is how the labelers *should* all work. automated information about the account that allows the user a moment to pause and do more research people need to do this to become more savvy online, the nanny stuff just makes people comfortably ignorant

Hi! I'm working in that scam issue. My bot warned about the impersonation and it did catch the suspicious message but couldn't link the two to warn you. The @ you see in the warning is different because it was before they change it. I need a bit of help here. Just a question. (1/2)

(2/2) Was the scam post isolated or it was in the thread? If that's a single unedited screenshot it looks like a reply but it usually warns "you" in that cases. 🤔

Thanks for the tip! I'll try out that labeler.

Well, besides the tag being wrong and the email address being nonsense... But it is pretty funny how often I see irritated replies to someone labeled "trolling/antisocial behavior" and Indeed It Is

I've gotten caught twice this way in the past few months--I now don't respond to posted pp addressed until I confirm another way with the poster. Thanks for mentioning more things to look for here.

Subbed to it but my lord what does this *mean?!??*

That’s just a silly label that is applied to one person’s account for fun 🙂

Recently hit the limit i can sub to, thought I already have that one. Too many joke labellers, I guess.

Damn… That’s new level of shameless! 😦 really great that labels work though!

Dang, is bsky populated enough for scammers to start fishing here?

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