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My wife and I both received message requests on Signal from the same "person". I assume this is some sort of scam but since it was the exact same name and profile image for me and my wife I wanted to see if anyone else has seen this so I can figure out how targeted this attack was. Thank you.

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[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Certainly appears to be a scam. I always say if you have to ask chances are that it’s a scam.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had a co-worker who was in a pig butchering scam for years. It's devastating for the victims, and also for the scam callers who are often imprisoned and forced to make these calls against their will.

[–] Boinkage@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes. It's a scammer pretending to be attractive Asian woman.

[–] swayevenly@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

There's an asian woman in the picture? I was checking out that animated cloud face about to drive in the background.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yes.

Cute woman tries to connect with me on social? Total scam. Lol

Maybe they're going down the alphabet sending requests? Or maybe it's targeted. But I would think they would send a cute guy pic to a woman if so.