Jacob

@jacobl89 Are you free an evening this week to get on discord with Dagger?

Is it just me, or does it feel like real people are becoming a lot less common lately? I've been getting messaged by a lot of bots, and I've been seeing a lot of scammer accounts made by people using AI to create profiles and send messages. Recently I even had these scammer accounts try to lead me on for days or even weeks with broken English and messages that sound like something from a wiki entry. Only to then try and get me to buy an art commission off them. For those who don't know what to look out for, maybe I can offer some helpful tips on how to avoid bots/ai/scammers - If you look around you might find some "about me" pages that seem a little 'too' well written. If a person's writing style has a certain flow to it, lacking any errors, and sounding like the description of a product rather than a person. It might be written by AI. AI will also tend to avoid using slang. - If they're using a lot of broken English and poor grammar, but also claiming to live in the US, that's probably a scammer. - If the photo or photos on their profile look like they're professionally taken, that too should be a red flag. Average people just take grainy poorly lit photos with their phone. - usernames that sound like a person's actual name. Most real people don't share their name so easily and prefer to use nicknames. - They claim their phone is broken or stolen or missing. They say this so they have an excuse for not taking more photos of themselves to prove they're really who they say they are, also to avoid talking over phone calls. - Trying to get you to buy them things. This is usually what the scam is leading up to. If they're trying to get money or gifts or whatever from you and you don't know them very well, it might be a scam. I hope some of this helps.