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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
 

This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing.... and it worked!

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[–] rustyfish 76 points 14 hours ago (21 children)

When I got this kind of message I immediately blocked them. Even if it wasn’t a bot, you do not start a conversation with “Hello” and wait for an answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I get at least one a day over text just saying "hello"

Have since started reporing as spam and blocking ever single one

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