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Someone's obviously making the websites, a few other people are finding the victims, and all the money is funneled to one overlord who pays everyone else a smal
by Zenul_Abidin 3y ago
Someone's obviously making the websites, a few other people are finding the victims, and all the money is funneled to one overlord who pays everyone else a small cut of the stolen money.
It is appalling that no social platform is taking this seriously.
- bloopernova 3y ago> It is appalling that no social platform is taking this seriously. The big social media corps won't eat into their profits by hiring people to find the scammers. It will take a law that says something about keeping a human in the loop, or that your reports should always be validated by a human.
- soco 3y agoTumblr has created a special reporting type exactly for these, and they do disappear afterwards quickly (tested this). But by the amount of requests I still receive daily from fresh and empty accounts, I guess the work on avoiding them in the first place still has a lot to catch up. A quarantine period for fresh users risks alienating legit ones, IP filtering won't bring it too far, no idea what one could do to quench it.