Scammers on Mastodon (in near real time)

I follow a friend from back in my Joomla days, Jen Kramer. So far I’ve had two fake Jen Kramer accounts follow me from mastodon.social. So I thought I’d have a little fun with the second one (I figure I’d make use of the lag time after reporting the account.) So here’s the “transcript” (images have alt text).

Sure, like Jen would randomly ask me this question after 15 years or so.

Good old Department of Health and Human Services program “going on yet.” I guess that Canadian flag in my name wasn’t enough of a clue, so we have a real winner here: we don’t have a DHHS.

Nothing like helping the “disables.”

Ooh cash. I like cash.

I am really trying to give this idiot a clue here.

Really. You would think this would do it. But the key here is the link to the second account, which appears to be someone who hasn’t posted since 2024. Probably a compromised by a brute force password attack. FFS people, pick hard to guess passwords!!!

I’m assuming this idiot only gets paid when I message the second level scammer…

Yes, I only need four trillion dollars. This idiot didn’t clue in even then.

Big figures like four trillion? LOL

There it is “clearance fees.” Well I guess I can cough up a few thousand for a trillion bucks from a foreign agency…

At this point I have stopped responding so this turkey is trying hard to keep me on the hook, even though he’s already given away the scam. But then it gets better:

There’s probably going to be more of this, but I want to get this posted.

Oh. And in the middle of this I pinged the second hacked account:

But for some utterly inexplicable reason I haven’t gotten a response!

Addendum: I just got tired of this. 😉

Addendum 2: Just after posting this, I reported the second account. Some 15 minutes later, both accounts have been suspended, and this is why I love the fediverse. Real human moderation, and timely!

Addendum 3: Another ten minutes later, I get followed by a brand new fake Jen account. What does the account do? Well, it boosts real Jen’s most recent posts to make it look like it’s real, and the first one is her mentioning this post. So we can conclude that it’s a bot that’s creating these accounts.