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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:53:35 JST Steve's Place

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   • sport of sacred spherical cows

   @beadsland Yeah, I just got one. 0 follower account. I didn't stick around for the pitch.

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     sport of sacred spherical cows (beadsland@hcommons.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 10:53:36 JST sport of sacred spherical cows

     The private mention spam has taken on a new flavor.

     Now they present themselves as an international college student who wants you to find them on friendica, join their discord, and matrix, or "join us" on an open chat room.

     The asking for money will no doubt wait until after they've established something passing for an online acquaintance.

     Interestingly, rather than come from mastodon.social, this one came from a no-name instance with nothing on the explore tabs of the home page (because of course none of the fewer than a hundred accounts on the server actually participate in public fedi).

     Update: Oh wow, two from two different severs all of 50 minutes apart. Same word-for-word boilerplate DM, different avi of what appears to be the same person.