90 threats in 90 days
Steve Benen:
Late January: Trump threatens Putin with sanctions, fails to follow through
Early March: Same thing happens again
Late March: Same thing happens again
Early May: Same thing happens again
Today: Trump again threatens Putin with sanctions, gives Putin another 50 days
⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.
Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.
If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.
p.s. The scammers seem to be asking for people's credit/debit card details. Fediverse admins will never ask for anything like that.
(Admins might call for donations with links to Ko-Fi etc, but it's not connected to verification and they would never ask for anyone's card themselves.)
Mastodon's actual self-verification system doesn't involve any payment cards or personal identity. It's also totally optional and mainly just for people who own a website: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account
p.p.s. If you see any kind of scam on here, click ⋯ below the scam post and then "Report".
When you report a scam, make sure you select the option to anonymously forward the report to the origin server so that they can suspend the account itself. Suspending an original account is the fastest way of stopping scammers.
@FediTips
I have to imagine the fediverse users must be the hardest to scam. 🚫
While Facebook users the easiest 🤔
Yeah, it works totally differently to what the scammers are trying to do.
Self-verification works by linking to your account from your website in a certain format. More info at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/
It doesn't reveal your identity, it just confirms your ownership of a website or web page.
It also doesn't involve any kind of credit card, which is what the scammers are trying to get hold of. The posts I saw were trying to trick people into giving card numbers etc.
Oh I understand now I connected to my gravatar and that is why it shows up in green on my profile ...correct??
Yeah, exactly, if you link in both directions with a special tag in the HTML code called rel=me it turns the link green as verified.
Rel=me was designed to be a general standard used by all social networks and sites so people could prove they were the same person on different platforms.
Unfortunately Google, Meta, Twitter etc refused to use it presumably because they don't like open standards 😦
But Mastodon and some others do use it.
If you ever have problems with your account, email your server admin on their public email address. This is in the "About" section of your server's website.
It is email so it works even if you're locked out of Mastodon.
Possibly 🙂
Also it's possibly because of various governments currently trying to impose ID verification on social networks. Some countries use credit cards to do this.
If people see credit card verification mentioned in the news, they're a lot more likely to think this kind of scam is genuine.
Mast A Don 🤭
Apparently something like that has been showing up on Facebook for a month ...
Two people I know fell for it because it said it was their Facebook and/or Microsoft account ...
The fact they were still able to use both didn't seem to convince them it was a fake ... and clicked ...
Guess I will hear from them what happened when it does ...
The misspelling of "mastodon" as "mastadon" is a dead giveaway of the scam.
Oops. Auto correct kicks in when you don't want it. Original toot corrected.
I did notice, and yes, I write a lot about South Korea. I'm well aware of how 'auto correct' acts! lol sometimes, corrections are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 ~ BLΛƆKPIИK 'is interpreted as BIOPIC .... go fig? Yes know the lettering throws it, but~' Kawai, Rora' ... as 'SPIT'.
This is k-pop.social 🤔💭
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hehe 😁
Jeeez, sometimes I catch it before it insults someone!
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txs for the info, explained as I did see it,
But eeeeh! I rode over it 😁👍🏼
Good heads up!
FOR EVERYONE!!!!
to see
Thank you for posting the info for us..
See ya around 🌌 the verse! 😁👍🏼
@_TroikaFox_@mindly.social Yeah, it works totally differently to what the scammers are trying to do. Self-verification works by linking to your account from your website in a certain format. More info at: ➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/ It doesn't reveal your identity, it just confirms your ownership of a website or web page. It also doesn't involve any kind of credit card, which is what the scammers are trying to get hold of. The posts I saw were trying to trick people into giving card numbers etc.
p.s. The scammers seem to be asking for people's credit/debit card details. Fediverse admins will never ask for anything like that. (Admins might call for donations with links to Ko-Fi etc, but it's not connected to verification and they would never ask for anyone's card themselves.) Mastodon's actual self-verification system doesn't involve any payment cards or personal identity. It's also totally optional and mainly just for people who own a website: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account
I've done a guide to it here: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account/
TL:DR - If you link to your website from your Mastodon account AND if you link to your Mastodon account from your website with a specific format, the link will turn green on your profile. This also works with two-way linking to accounts on some other platforms.
@FediTips auha! Nun werden auch schon im #Fediverse #Phishing Mitteilungen verbreitet.
Danke für diesen Hinweis!
@FediTips Also block & report such #Scammers as #Spam & Impersonation.
In case anyone found some that don't get taken down by admins within a few days, let me know and I'll add them to a public blocklist that can be queried and imported from here:
Thank you!
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