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⚠️ 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 for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips

captain acab :antifa: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this

ohai.social

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kaffando Dec 12

@FediTips @markwyner

I'd like to think that @Mastodon users are more intelligent than to fall for that.... 😂

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Dec 12

@kaffando

Well…you’d be surprised how many people get confused about this kind of thing. It’s easy to assume our knowledge/experience is universal, but it’s not. There are a lot of non-tech-savvy folks on Mastodon.

@FediTips @Mastodon

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Kazinator Dec 12

@markwyner @kaffando @FediTips @Mastodon

But, but, ... thanks to this e-mail switch campaign, there are now fewer non-tech-savvy accounts on Mastodon.

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kaffando Dec 13

@Kazinator @markwyner @FediTips @Mastodon

You don't have to be tech-savvy. Just having a brain is enough 🤩

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Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@kaffando @Kazinator @markwyner @FediTips @Mastodon Don't say that, scams win eventually simply by being so prevalent. Just browse r/Scams for a while and you'll see posts from IT experts who, contritely, describe how they fucked up and got hacked by a scammer.

Even worse is what happens through a compromised account. If someone would manage to get into my account an LLM trained on my public posts might extort money from many friendly people faster than I could reach our two admins.