Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at https://ohai.social/@redsad/115708030185038699

(Thanks @markwyner@mas.to for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

p.s. To add a bit of context, the scammer may message you to claim they reported you by accident. They then try to convince you to get in touch with a different account that pretends to be an admin who can "fix" the situation. All of the things they tell you are lies.

The scammer is actually running both accounts and just wants to take over your account by tricking you into changing your email address to their email address. They would then use your account to post other scams.

Kaliah
@Kaliah@dragonscave.space

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I've seen a similar scam go around on discord. I'd imagine it'd be easy to fall for this sort of thing if you aren't tech inclined or don't know about this stuff. I hope all of these jerks get exactly what's coming to them and like someone else said in this thread, let's not shame people if they do end up falling for scams.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@Kaliah@dragonscave.space

Yeah, never a good idea to shame anyone as:
1) They are victims, it's just wrong to shame victims
2) All of us are vulnerable, we should all be keeping our guard up
3) Shaming discourages victims from warning others, so the shaming is just helping the scammers

thermonuclear small claims
@fullfathomfive@aus.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @Kaliah@dragonscave.space
They're doing this as a full-time job and putting their whole attention on it. As @pluralistic@mamot.fr says, the scammer only has to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always.