🚨New coordinated Mastodon attack targeting Palestinians from Gaza

Folks, please look out for newly-created accounts on mastodon.social targeting Palestinians from Gaza with what appear to be automated/similar messages aimed at either scamming them or otherwise causing them harm in some way.

Accounts I’ve already reported to @staff:

- @Danitimi@mastodon.social
- @bradoliver2050@mastodon.social
- @elizabethangel12@mastodon.social
- @mary1e1@mastodon.social

To the #GazaVerified families: if someone reaches out with similar posts, please do not engage and come to me instead. I will handle it.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #scam #spam #hasbara #israel #genocide #mastodon #fediverse

🚨New coordinated Mastodon attack targeting Palestinians from Gaza

Folks, please look out for newly-created accounts on mastodon.social targeting Palestinians from Gaza with what appear to be automated/similar messages aimed at either scamming them or otherwise causing them harm in some way.

Accounts I’ve already reported to @staff:

- @Danitimi@mastodon.social
- @bradoliver2050@mastodon.social
- @elizabethangel12@mastodon.social
- @mary1e1@mastodon.social

To the #GazaVerified families: if someone reaches out with similar posts, please do not engage and come to me instead. I will handle it.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #scam #spam #hasbara #israel #genocide #mastodon #fediverse

Are credit scores a scam?

#isitascamyep #scam #creditscore

Are credit scores a scam?

#isitascamyep #scam #creditscore

I never got a scam e-Mail like that before! So how did they know!

My employer filed for insolvency in 2023 and all employees got their last salaries from the #IEF. In such cases everybody has to pay extra tax on that next year.

The scammer probably got the insolvency data from public records and employee names from the homepage. Guessed one of my e-Mail Addresses. Bet on people forgetting this #tax debt, waited two years and then sent targeted #scam e-Mails!

That's a new level of insidious!

un-be-fucking-lievable

I got a targeted #scam email from the Austrian tax service. Notifying me about ~1500€ outstanding tax from 2023.
They would execute my flat tomorrow!
+link, where I could easily pay the scammer.

It looked really believable at first!

Despite the obvious fake Address and ads that the scammer forgot to remove.

Because last year I really had an outstanding tax payment for 2023!

So my 1st thought was: Did they not book my payment correctly?

#finanzonline #digitalaustria

why this #carboncapture stuff everywhere all of a sudden.

err. look, the reason why i don't want to hear it is very simple: IT. DOES. NOT. WORK.

industry has been trying to find a way to collect individual molecules of CO2 out of the air for 20 years now with 0 results. nothing. a rounding error.

there is a very well proven way to store carbon though, it is called sedimentary rock. of which the same companies are still extracting it at insane rates.

see the #SCAM?

why this #carboncapture stuff everywhere all of a sudden.

err. look, the reason why i don't want to hear it is very simple: IT. DOES. NOT. WORK.

industry has been trying to find a way to collect individual molecules of CO2 out of the air for 20 years now with 0 results. nothing. a rounding error.

there is a very well proven way to store carbon though, it is called sedimentary rock. of which the same companies are still extracting it at insane rates.

see the #SCAM?

The account at https://troet.cafe/@m7moodfamily (@m7moodfamily@troet.cafe) is a scam. It’s got hundreds of posts even though it joined yesterday and it links to gaza-verified.org even though we have not verified it.

I’m also seeing copies of the account on troet.cafe and elsewhere. Be careful with any accounts that contain “moodfamily” in the name.

I reported it to troet.cafe yesterday but no action has yet been taken.

If there is a real Mahmoud family account please contact me and we’ll verify you.

If you’re the person running the scam accounts: stop! You are stealing from starving people in Gaza. Shame on you. Have you not an ounce of humanity?

@palestine

#GazaVerified #warning #scam #fediverse#Gaza #fundraising#FreePalestine

Here's a feel-good story from New Zealand. A ‘‘little old lady from Southland’’ was ripped off by scammers in Croatia with a highly inflated 'taxi' fare. They ran her card for €1506 ($NZ2992) after a 10-minute cab ride.

Her perseverance let to an appearance on Croatian prime-time news, an official apology from the Ministry of Tourism and their Ministry of Transport has introduced new regulations for taxis, with fare caps and specialised licence plates.

And she got her money back.

Go Carol!

https://archive.ph/Esz2F

#Scam#Croatia

Here's a feel-good story from New Zealand. A ‘‘little old lady from Southland’’ was ripped off by scammers in Croatia with a highly inflated 'taxi' fare. They ran her card for €1506 ($NZ2992) after a 10-minute cab ride.

Her perseverance let to an appearance on Croatian prime-time news, an official apology from the Ministry of Tourism and their Ministry of Transport has introduced new regulations for taxis, with fare caps and specialised licence plates.

And she got her money back.

Go Carol!

https://archive.ph/Esz2F

#Scam#Croatia

I saw something disturbing this morning.
One of my clients showed me an email. They use Gmail for their emails (on their own domain) and download them locally.
The email officially came from their company president, giving the purchasing department orders to immediately pay an invoice of around €20,000 to a new supplier in the UK. It included all the details and had the invoice attached as a PDF.

The worrying part is that the style and tone of the writing were exactly like their president's. However, the sender's address, while using the correct name, was a generic Gmail account. This immediately raised a red flag for the purchasing department, and they didn't fall for it. It was also easy for them to check because the president was in their office at that very moment.

Looking at the sender's address, it would have been simple for anyone to figure out what was happening, but many people don't.
The accuracy with which they (likely using an LLM) recreated the president's writing style is truly concerning.

#Scam#Spam#FakeSender

A first on Mastodon 🚨
I receive this alert message suspending my account if I don't immediately follow the attached link, which is a payment form.

A first on Mastodon 🚨
I receive this alert message suspending my account if I don't immediately follow the attached link, which is a payment form.

🆕 blog! “Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?”

In which I attempt to be pragmatic.

Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess.

Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/
⸻
#android #google #rant #scam

🆕 blog! “Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?”

In which I attempt to be pragmatic.

Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess.

Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/
⸻
#android #google #rant #scam

🚨 Mastodon Support Scam 🚨

It looks like there's another wave of fake Mastodon support accounts asking you to verify your account.

Do NOT click on any links in these posts. Please report them to your server admin as soon as possible.

Please boost so that as many people can be aware of this as possible. Thank you! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin#MastoAdmin#MastodonSupport#Scam#Moderation#Report#Mastodon

🚨 Mastodon Support Scam 🚨

It looks like there's another wave of fake Mastodon support accounts asking you to verify your account.

Do NOT click on any links in these posts. Please report them to your server admin as soon as possible.

Please boost so that as many people can be aware of this as possible. Thank you! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin#MastoAdmin#MastodonSupport#Scam#Moderation#Report#Mastodon