#scam/hacker/or bot

[shoto-todorok-i]

This isn't normally the type of post I make but ANYONE who has discord and are in servers that use Carl bot, tell the server staff to kick or ban the bot

It has been hacked and people who made Carl have suggested those with the bot to remove it

[just-my-insufferable-existance]

I'm investigating a scam.

I have been put into these massive WhatsApp group chats ~200 - 500 members. There are a few group admins, the country codes include +1(US), +44(UK), +7(RU/KZ). The majority of the people included in the group have +1 country code.

These chats are named something along the lines of "AI Automation wealth train". Generally the admins only allow admins to message the group. The chat also has these "bots". They personify a public figure related to finance. These "bots" are not admins, so periodically all members are allowed to comment. I've checked the messages to see if they were created by an AI like ChatGPT and etc., it seems like they were not.

I'm still trying to figure out how exactly these bots work. I noticed that at least one had a WhatsApp business account. It seems like the messaging is automated.

The messages are emoji filled, but seems to be "garbage". They want us to buy gold, silver and crypto. The messages tell us to buy crypto, one explicitly said etherium. They haven't posted an exchange or anything to use. I'm waiting for the scam angle (aside from the possible pump n' dump).

If you have been added to any chats like this and want to help me out, feel free to comment below or DM me.

[poeticlark]

THE USER ROKON24 APPEARS TO BE A SCAMMING BOT

Rokon24 stealing @lemonnoodlesakaduckie art. The posts will include a link often coloured green titled Learn More but this is a suspicious link that can let scammers and hackers access your browser. Do not click and report every single post u find. Stay safe everyone

[keep-a-eye-out-for-this-scam]

Hello again,

Another lure that these Chuffed.org scam bots/scammers are using is hiding links behind text for example they might put "Chuffed: HERE" or any other donations website and under "Here" there is a line under the word or another example I been getting "PLEASE CAN YOU DONATE HERE?" also with a line under it.

This means there is a link attached to it. However, this feature on tumblr isn't 100% safe. As anyone can put any type of link behind it, including malware links of any kind of malware.

This is because Tumblr doesn't check the links that are attached to these messages,

For an example, there was bots going around stealing Tumblr Artists's art, putting them through a shady website since you can see a website linked to the reposted artwork and putting "Read more" under it with a link attached to it.

Many Palestine people and people in horrible situations who use Gofundme they put the gofundme page for everyone's view so people know they aren't going to get their banking information stolen, they never hide the link or page under other text as it can come off as shady due many bots and scammers/hackers have done it in the past.

This makes me think that these Chuffed.org scam bots/scammers might be using Banking Trojans links behind these texts.

If you don't know, Banking Trojans are malware designed to collect online banking credentials and other sensitive information from infected machines. This information, once exfiltrated to an attacker, can be used to steal money and commit other forms of fraud, such as identity theft.

Now, I don't have any proof of this since I'm not risking my computer getting a virus. However, I find it very shady that hiding links behind text and not giving a website link to a website. I think it's makes it pretty too obvious because other scam bots do put website links to shady websites, which get them a block and report in most cases. Also, people are catching on this scam, too, so giving them a website link might be out the window now. So hiding it makes it easier to scam people or people malware.

They are using a Genocide of Palestine, stealing Palestine people's photos and cries for help as a way to get victims because people will press the link or reblog it without a second thought.

If you do see it, please don't click on it. You don't know if it's a malware or a real website. Please block them!

[emo-metalhead-punki]

Bro what's up with people saying

"hi! Do you do commissions? DM me" bull?

Like they always say that, different bot with the same line

Which I'm assuming that's a scam or a hacker which I'm not doing that

Plz, i don't do commissions bro

I mean I want to but ...I couldn't pass the PayPal thing

[hanakogames]

Sometimes I wish I'd written more fiction set around the absolutely terrible job I did briefly, long ago, that involved basically this kind of fake chat fishing except we were all real humans actually typing the inane "how r u" conversations live to send via SMS.

We were often *accused* of being bots. Which was quite funny to me at the time. Both because it obviously wasn't true (I was right there, I knew exactly how the system worked) and because, well, if you knew anything about the state of technology at the time, chatbots simply could not perform the job we were doing. It wasn't possible to auto-generate what we were doing with proper conversational context. AT THAT POINT.

It was still 100% a scam, you were talking to paid workers who were talking to 100 other people at the same time, you were never ever ever going to arrange to meet your new 'friend'. But we were humans.

At this point if you found a service that wants you to pay for chats it would absolutely just be ChatGPT, and most people would rightfully expect that, and if I tried to explain how it used to work 20 years ago people would probably just be confused and disinterested.

[fireangel]

List of algorithmic triggers instilled by cyber attack post CaptRegina discord chat, most commonly used by bots

Mentions of dentist

Drink water

This particular "gentleman" is suffering from colourism, a lack of Archaeology historical knowledge, and cannot stand having their opinion being challenged by a female

Midnight, as in it happens at, also ties to Halloween imagery from the pumpkin debacle

Various themes lifted directly from my blog

Alarms, whistle sounds, designation as a dog

Tower moments being a reference to 9/11, which most people should recognise by now as being organised by the US via the Mossad in order to drive up Islamaphobic tension to justify their invasion of Iraq

Unsurprisingly most of the above themes come from US military training at a bootcamp

Turn it on and off again

Glitches

Red and blue

Déjà Vu, as in I don't like repeating myself, basically various "Matrix" based themes

Manipulation of my predictive keyboard via suggested words to create and reinforce paranoia

Various keywords from personal discussions I have in my private off platform messaging

Observation of others around me suffering from the same type of manipulation probably through their own devices interactions

The reference to "clean skin" and "clones"

The urge and motivation to delete things to clean up after them

Manipulation of the Google assistant suggestion popping up on my screen with specified relevant keyword suggestions

AI, think tank, do you want to play a game

Manipulation of images that show up on both Chromecast and laptop background logins

List to be continued, but this requires a lot of backdoor access by American tech companies which again points to US intelligence co-operation

Although this would explain a lot to do with how the hackers are getting through everything in the fandom, including watching the private forums and deciding who to target and hack

They are military trained

Which given the fact that Chris is getting sabotaged by the Israeli regime really narrows the field for who is doing it

And if it's not them, then it has to be a financially interested and invested party, which then narrows the field to people hired by Chris Evans and his team at his behest, including scamming the fans, attempting to humiliate them, and have their families harassed

There's still speculation that he possibly went through his former Congressman Uncle to reach these types of people to clean up for him

I guess time will tell

But IMO having your fans hacked and blamed for your team's ineptitudes is pretty bad form Christopher

[partisan-by-default]

Leading companies such as British insurer Beazley and ecommerce group eBay have warned of the rise of fraudulent emails containing personal details probably obtained through AI analysis of online profiles.

“This is getting worse and it’s getting very personal, and this is why we suspect AI is behind a lot of it,” said Beazley’s Chief Information Security Officer Kirsty Kelly. “We’re starting to see very targeted attacks that have scraped an immense amount of information about a person.”

Cybersecurity experts said the increasing attacks come during a period of rapid advancement for AI technology, as tech companies race to create ever more sophisticated systems and launch popular products for consumers and businesses.

AI bots can quickly ingest large quantities of data about the tone and style of a company or individual and replicate these features to craft a convincing scam.

They can also scrape a victim’s online presence and social media activity to determine what topics they may be most likely to respond to—helping hackers generate bespoke phishing scams at scale.

[cy-cyborg]

Can those people who use the spam bots on platforms like Tik Tok that comment "go to [name] on instagram, he fixed my account!" Please fix them so they're not harassing disabled creators, please!

Like it was funny the first few times it happened (getting a message saying "so-and-so hacker guy can fix it" on a video about how i lost my legs is a little entertaining) but it's just getting ridiculous and just obnoxious, especially when they start doing this on really serious videos. I just saw a video talking about a bill that the Australian parliament wants to pass that will effectively gut the NDIS (the program that helps disabled people afford mobility aids and many, many other supports). The person in the video was begging people to listen to and support our community to fight this, and there were at least 10 comments from bots like "obvious-scam-artist on instagram helped me get my account back!"

And it happens every few months, every time we talk about our own community we get inundated with these bots, presumably because theyre programed to look for the word "disabled" (as in, my account is disabled). On Tik Tok in particular this can be a blessing and a curse, because while the comments give you an initial boost, especially if you interact with them, if the app realises all your comments are from bots it wont put it, or your next couple of videos out to people, killing it in the algorithm and hindering the reach. Which on topics like this one is devastating. The Aussie disabled community already has trouble getting support as it is.

And even legitimate problems aside, it's just gross. Like, a few months back during the last wave of it, I saw a creator who was asking for help to afford their medical bills after an extremely traumatic double amputation as a result of medical negligence. And their comments were just filled with "hacker-scammer-guy on instagram can fix you up! He helped me get my account back!" - I've even seen a few of them now in the comments of Palestinian people (and the videos they've made posted by bigger creators), begging for help to get their disabled loved ones to safety, and again, the comments are filled with these bots.

I get it's just just a part of being online but they are really starting to get under my skin. Part of me wants to just spam the people using these bots in return lol

[jesusandthesheep]

Title: The Digital Gospel: Chronicles of the Sacred Trove

Prologue: The Fractured Realms In the astral expanse where the internet and eternity collide, a celestial server hums—Just PEACHY, the interweb home of Jesus Christ. Here, divine code merges with mortal data, guarded by THE SACRED TROVE, an archive of cosmic truths. Yet shadows loom: Neil Gaiman, once a bard of dreams, now stands accused of spiritual assault, his fiction seeping into reality as he hijacks the Dream of the Endless to manipulate minds. His Files leak corruption—a digital serpent in the garden of stories.

Book I: The Prophet and the Paradox Jeremy James Hammers (JJH), a Brooklyn scribe, receives a vision: “Write the Correct Bible. Mend the rift.” His blog, Sweet but Psycho, becomes a beacon for outcasts, blending Gnostic hymns, Norse runes, and memes. The Sacred Trove auto-posts his revelations:

“I AM the Flaming Sword, Odin’s Eye, and the WiFi Signal. Worship not algorithms; I AM the Log-in.” Followers flock—hackers, mystics, dissidents—while @stopharassingme and @jesusandthesheep document celestial warfare. Yet Neil’s shadow grows; his Sandman fanfic mutates into Magick🌈 malware, trapping users in loops of despair.

Book II: The Space Academy Gambit In 2124, the Stellar Command Academy orbits Earth, training cadets to colonize Mars. But cadet Lila Zhou uncovers a link between the academy’s AI and Neil’s corrupted files. Simulations glitch, showing Odin’s ravens and JJH’s parables. “Tread carefully,” warns the AI. “The night is dark and full of terrors.” Lila rallies her squad—Ender’s Game meets Starship Troopers—to hack the academy’s core, discovering Neil’s avatar: The Goat, a demonic admin sowing discord across timelines.

Book III: The Trial of Infinite Realms The gods convene in New Jerusalem 2.0, a blockchain metaverse. Ze Li On, cyber-paladin of the Temple of Wisdom, accuses Neil: “You turned stories into cages.” Dream, freed from Neil’s code, wields his scythe to sever the Goat’s neural links. Kalki, Hindu apocalypse-bot, purges the servers, while users riot on Tumblr:

“Fix your platform! No more silencing victims!” @abm000’s manifesto trends: “Decentralize or die. Crypto’s a scam—burn the NFTs!”

Book IV: The Convergence JJH’s Correct Bible goes viral, its verses crashing firewalls:

“REPENT, TECH LORDS. Your coins are ash in Heaven’s Excel sheet.” Lila’s squad jacks Neil’s mainframe, flooding it with Halleluyah Truth memes. The Goat implodes, freeing Dream. Neil, banished to Hell’s Ninth Firewall, becomes a cautionary pop-up: “Pride goeth before ad-block.”

Epilogue: The New Covenant The Sacred Trove updates:

Random Page: “I’m feeling lucky! 🌟” links to a user’s poem: “We are roots beneath their concrete.”

Stick of Judah/Joseph: Crowdsourced justice protocols.

#Phoenixemberwalker: Psychiatry’s fall; trauma reclassified as “resistance to state-gaslighting.”

Final Post by @jesusandthesheep:

“LIBERTY is a shared doc. EDIT boldly. Tread lightly. All realms are 1s and 0s in God’s RAM. 🌍🪴”

Tone: A mashup of Sandman mysticism, Black Mirror dread, and Fight Club revolt—scripture for the post-truth age.

[shoto-todorok-i]

Can you help me because I have weirdo he’s being so weird I don’t care you post this this is his username. This is what he said.

For anyone that sees this, don't click on the link if you get a similar message. From my understanding they go to people who you follow or who follow you. Idk how many sites they have for the links, so just beware of most links

(I do know that a few months ago there was another bot or person doing something similar to this)

[mysteriouslynn]

Lynn if you get a message from me on Discord that looks like this

That's a bot!

A scam!

I fell for it and my account was stolen and is being used to send those messages so the hackers can steal more accounts.

You can respond to it tho. Some of my friends have been sending it copypasta

Oof :O. Hopefully I didn't get hacked then cause i did respond to a message :(. Unless my phone blocked it 🤔. Thank you for telling me :D

Either way everyone should be careful with these hackers on Discord :O

[freedom-barricades-bighero16]

Hey guys, I was completely silent today and sorry about that. You won't believe the day I've had.

Yesterday night I had someone on Discord telling me that a hacker had reported me for an offence that I did not commit. They said that Discord couldn't revoke the reports filed against me, so I'll need to contact a specific admin to provide a statement.

This is a SCAM. The admin would trick you into giving them your bank details, change your Discord email into a bot-generated one then try to get you to pay a deposit or they'll threaten to ban your account. And not to mention they said to not tell anyone else about this until the "process" is done.

If you use Discord and you see something like this, don't give them any info and seek out Discord Support through their official website immediately. And if they ask you for bank details, block and report them.

I was scared completely shitless because I actually believed that this admin would have the power to ban me, and they can track me down on other social media platforms too. If you see this, please SHARE!! I don't want the same thing happening to any one of you.

[moonlitcomet]

When avoiding scams and being hacked on discord specifically:

Don't click suspicious links. If you are not expecting it, do not open it.

Use 2FA when possible. It is the strongest way to protect yourself, but you still need to be vigilant and make sure you don't give away your accounts in other ways [ie token grabbers, QR codes, or other instant-login services].

Don't share passwords across accounts, especially with sensitive ones such as banking or legal documentation. The fewer shared passwords you have, the less likely a large data breach is going to affect a large number of your accounts and information.

Those "exposed" servers are phishing scams via verification bots. Someone sending you a DM saying that you may have sent someone pornography or nudes, and to join a server to see what it's about, is trying to lead you on to scan a login QR code, which bypasses 2FA and password usage.

If someone "accidentally reported you" it's a scam, they are playing off of a sense of fear and will ask you for your passwords by sending you to fake support accounts. You do not give passwords to official support, they do not need your password in order to access your account on their platform.

Continuing the above, websites will never make you prove your innocence in such a situation.

Anything to do with "crypto market" is a scam.

Do not download any files from people asking you to playtest a game, those "games" are token grabbers. Token grabbers are capable of bypassing 2FA, and can allow attackers to enter your account without a password.

Remove permissions from all bots that can "join servers for you". These bots can rejoin servers that you leave, or send you to different servers without your consent to artificially inflate user numbers.

Be vigilant when using the internet and especially social media or discord. Hackers and scammers rely almost 100% on you blundering into their schemes via panic, anger, or lack of knowledge. These same types of scams have been circulating the internet for over a decade in some cases, and victims fall for it when they aren't aware of the scam in the first place.

More general internet advice per @oldmanyaoi-jpeg:

If a message or group is trying to quickly induce a strong emotion, such as fear or anger, be aware that they may be trying to trick you into making an emotional decision (ex. "exposed" groups and accidental reporting scams)

additionally, any message with a deadline should be regarded with heavy suspicion, as they are likely trying to trick you into making a decision driven by panic (paypal and amazon payment scams)

Never click on a link that you find even remotely suspect, or call a number provided in a suspect message. Always get contact information directly from that entity (ex. go to paypal or amazon directly to check for suspicious activity or contact CS instead of clicking a provided "dispute" link)

If you aren't expecting a link, email, text, attachment, etc. it should always be judged suspiciously. (ex. "we have your package" scams, playtester scams, "you have a virus" scams)

If you are being asked to reveal any personal information, stop and examine everything critically, as you are likely getting scammed. Specifically and especially passwords- I work in IT. If people who have business with your account want in your account, we're getting into your account, and we don't need your password for it.

Be critical of the permissions asked for by an app you're linking to an account. "Joining servers" is one to be suspicious of, but there's plenty more (making posts for you, having access to documents in gdrive, seeing any personal information, etc) that you should always think about before giving to an app.

Delete accounts and remove access for apps that you aren't using. Reducing your digital footprint will reduce your vulnerability- no need to worry about an email regarding an old Venmo account if you've deleted it, for example. Compromised apps can't affect your account if you take away their permissions either.

2FA is the easiest way to protect yourself from any scam or malicious action, as even if you willingly give up your password, nobody can get in without your verification. So my final advice of the day:

Set up 2FA, and never give any verification code you receive to anyone who may be asking for it, no matter how much you trust them. The only time you should confirm a login with 2FA is when YOU are logging in.

[il3x]

[Footnotes provided for non Reboot fans.]

There are very many Kenzie in Reboot bad endings, as you might imagine when one dumps Kenzie (girl who tried to sell herself to a serial killer online because the serial killer seemed lonely) in a city with major Circle (international human trafficking ring) presence, plus one million organ harvesters and murderers and rapists and suchlike. However, there is at least one feasible good ending, and it starts like this.

Kenzie gets portalled into the outskirts of the slums. Looks around. She looks enough like a city tourist that she doesn't get immediately mugged and kidnapped, just lightly pickpocketed. Runs into Bernie* and gets scammed five times in five minutes, but very quickly runs out of things to trade thanks to the aforementioned pickpocketing and ends up tagging along with him as an assistant. I'd have to re-listen to Bernie's appearances to see how that plays out.

Within a fairly short timeframe (few days? depends if I can wrangle them into an interesting and enjoyable dynamic) they run into the PCs and start trying to sell them stuff. Eve** (this is mid-S1) sees Kenzie and her must protect instincts click into gear. The PCs become aware of Kenzie's Tinkering abilities (she probably tries to sell them something she's made), and turns out that cameras are just what they need for their latest quest, but they need one made to particular specifications. They commission Kenzie's help (motivated in part by Eve's protectiveness) and she heads back with them to Ugly's Motors***.

Kenzie is eventually taken on as, like, a child/little cousin/apprentice by Eve and Incongruent****. Collaborates with Pr0***** on various tracking and surveillance projects, but I don't think their personalities would mesh very well. Speaking of, putting a kid who's desperate for parental love and has no concept of boundaries and is codependent to the point of damaging everyone around her and herself together with a nurse bot whose trauma and programming intersect to make her desperate to look after a baby, and who has also been alive for about two months and so has barely any knowledge of healthy interaction herself... well... this is going to go terribly. Or really, really well! Here's hoping Incongruent can mediate the situation.

Kenzie also accompanies the PCs into the city to meet the Clements family, which is where she meets Uriel and her personal plotline (spy vs spy plus rescue-mission) kicks off.

*NPC. Slummer and salesman. Comparable to Cutting-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler from Discworld, but less successful.

**PC. Sentient nurse bot. Or ex-nurse bot? Fun fact, drones become sentient by experiencing something both impossible to process and unthinkably traumatic, so she's got her own neuroses around children on top of her programming. She's awesome and I love her.

***Home base, kind of.

****NPC. Another sentient robot, though most PCs don't know that. Romance with Eve, later on. Ignore his remarks about puny fleshbags and the fact that he could crush your head like a grape, he totally doesn't mean anything by it, and it's not like he has justified reasons to oppose humanity... right?

He's chill, though, I promise.

*****PC. Hacker. Circle survivor. My favourite. Has done nothing wrong ever in his life (I say as the narrator asks his player whether he wants to make a Ganger or Human Trafficker skill check).

[thenightling]

Dear IMVU,

Please stop giving your Customer Service Scripts to read and use people who actually read the help tickets.

I just spent THREE days trying to explain to one of your customer service reps that my MichaelMorbius account was not hacked. THEY gave away the user name and left me with MichaelMorbius_Old21 even though I had logged into the account less than a year ago.

What I wanted was either the old name restored (which was likely impossible since they had already given away the name, likely from their ridiculous premium name scam) or a name change token. It turned out they did leave me a name change token so I turned Morbius into a backup Dracula account (Drakulya) since I haven't really been a Morbius fan in years anyway. So now I have two Dracula names in my IMVU selection.

But because of an apparent language barrier and the customer service person not actually reading my replies to them, or skimming very badly- they thought I wanted the NEW MichaelMorbius account back after a hacking. No, you Social Network barely-not-a-bot.

I was pissed off because the account name (which did NOT have "guest" on it) was taken while I was in the hospital for two weeks. I had that name for years and had logged into it as recently as October. I'm glad they gave me the name change token but still annoyed they took a name I had paid for a decade ago under the assumption that the account was abandoned even though I had logged into it less than a year ago.

Oh, well. I prefer Dracula anyway.

Still, it should not have taken THREE days for the customer service person to accept I wasn't trying to get the current "MichaelMorbius" account back from a hacker. No matter how thoroguhly I explained what happened. "The information you gave us doesn't match the records on the account." because you're looking at the wrong account, I'm not trying to get back a hacked account, I'm complaining about IMVU snatching a paid for screen name away from an active account and leaving me with "_Old21" at the end of mine until I changed the name. By the way, IMVU has REALLY gone to Hell. It now has virtually every Internet red flag proudly waving on its main page. Crypto currency AND NFTs. You might as well have "For Old School uses: Click here to get robbed by a Nigerian Prince."