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icykalisartblog · 10 months

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DDoS Attack Against AO3: Correcting Misinformation

Normally I don't make any posts like this, but I have an interest in cybersecurity and sadly I've seen people are being really ignorant about this recent DDoS attack against the site AO3 (Archive of Our Own), so I thought I'd remind people of a few things:

Anonymous Sudan appears to have no actual link to Sudan at all, or to any previous hacktivist groups that once operated there. This masquerade is probably based in anti-immigration and other racist sentiments, and utilizing those sentiments in other people to scare people and set up Muslims and Sudanese people as a target. This should be obvious from the language used in their note, but this was already known prior to this particular attack.

This so-called Anonymous Sudan has actually been very active recently—remember that they claimed to attack Reddit, Flickr, Riot Games, a huge number of Microsoft web portals like OneDrive and Outlook, etc. before AO3, so AO3 was totally a logical target for them since they've gone after smaller entities before. DDoS attacks like this are easy for any script kiddie to set up, so it's not weird that they'd go for a smaller target like this.

Honestly this group of posers probably just wants money, everybody. They sent AO3 a ransom note asking for Bitcoin (and just in case people don't know, do not pay a ransom if at all possible if this ever happens to you).

My advice to people who've noticed this attack is two-fold: calm down since this is part of a larger pattern that has literally resulted in basically no loss for the end-user of any of the sites, and... I don't really know a better way to put this, but don't believe everything you read. A religiously-motivated hate group wouldn't use terms like "LGBTQ+" and "smuts," and it's so blatantly obvious that the timing of every single one of these attacks is being used to smear Muslims and Sudanese people if you think about current events for like. One second. And if you look up Anonymous Sudan, you'll see their string of attacks and how all experts know that they have nothing to do with Sudan at all. Even AO3 itself told everybody that the group is lying about their motivations... though I think I'd go further than that personally because even their name itself is almost certainly a total sham.

To be clear: this post isn't targeted at anyone in particular. I've just seen a lot of people falling for this overall or not realizing this is part of a pattern, and I also wanted to remind everyone that this isn't anything to be concerned about. What is something to be concerned about is not doing research or thinking critically and then unwittingly spreading racist ideas.

#Ao3 #archive of our own #DDoS attack #cybersecurity #islamophobia

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trollbreak · 2 years

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Ok so sleepy brain so I don’t have the full thought but like. Buddy 🤝 planhz traveller with wizard stuff n is a guy I like and wanna hold hands with

#don’t mind me #I’ll figure out if this is worth humoring in the morning lol #other fun comparisons include joulie and isohel bein pink n being in charge is the last thing they want #bridge n eiteth bein cane users who appreciate a lil violence #ransom marching going from almost villains to just some dude instead #marrow n kit.s ancestor not goin for work on their throats or whatever bc they’re uncomfortable w the idea of someone messing around in ther #kit n corpus. self imposed nigh solitude and the idea of smth breaking their horns is like. nightmare shit #I’m just. compares guys

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rhaaclaws · 28 days

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New Discord Scam Going Around

Ok so I'm making this post because I almost got completely scammed on there and I just want to mention what to do.

Essentially you just get a message from an infected user in your friend's list and they'll start out very casually. Then they go on about how they accidentally reported you for fraud and that you need to talk to someone from "support". they'll have a fake email attached to it.

They'll then go on to tell you that you need to add a guy called Rhys Davis

The nastiest part is how casually yet urgently they'll talk to you. Do not do what I did and even give them the light of day. Unfortunately, they're really good at what they do, and of course I started to panic and immediately messaged him.

I won't go too much into it but he'll tell you to change your email to one he generates and then log out. Then he'll hold it for ransom at a very small time frame. This is how I lost my account but thankfully no money because that's when I realized it was just a scam.

Here's how to get your account back if you lost it

To get your account back, go to the official discord website and submit a support ticket with the original email and they'll do the work for you. It's actually really fast and when you get your account it'll be temporarily suspended. Thankfully I got to it quick enough for it to not message much people who i didn't already get a friend to warn to.

Just making this to try to help anyone out there, since its super insidious.

Don't be stupid in the tags, this can happen to anyone

#rhaa talks #thankfully this was like. a 6 hour ordeal for me but i was fucking panickedddd

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gerblinbones · 7 months

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Seeing as Simon never really became an antagonist in the cbw au, i had to put somebody in that place instead!! Sooo, this is Ghoulio, a member of the Soot Kingdom (Which is located underground, accessible through a dungeon entrance. It’s dark, shady, and generally not great! Think the City of Thieves, but on a larger scale and with a mostly homogenous population of demon-lookin’ guys like Ghoulio.) He’s a goofy but formidable bad guy, and is kind of a jack of all trades when it comes to thievery and the like. And, like the Ice King, he kidnaps princesses. But he just holds them for ransom instead, and you’d think that he’d stop if a boy and a magic dog showed up to rock his shit every time. That didn’t stop Ice King though, so why should it stop him?

He’s got an entire posse of fellow thieves and magic users for hire, as all he can really do in regard to magic is creating smoke clouds as either a mode of transport, a distraction, or suffocating somebody, and he’s not entirely fond of the last one.

Finn and Ghoulio were determined to take each other out, they were sworn enemies. Which, at 12, just means they really really didn’t like each other. Their morals clashed hard, and that didn’t really absolve until they were around 14. As mid/older teenagers they mellowed out by a lot, and Ghoulio switched to pettier crimes to entertain himself. As adults they still butt heads and push each other around a little, but it’s all in good fun. Ghoulio’s retired, no hard feelings. They’re buddies!! He’s about Finn’s age because good lord it would’ve done wonders if Finn grew up having someone on the same mental level as him and this whole au is about making things a little better.

Here’s a colored doodle for a better reference! I haven’t drawn a full body of him yet, but I plan to soon :]

#adventure time #adventure time fanart #adventure time au #could be worse au #adventure time oc #at oc #fionna and cake #fanart

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dduane · 1 year

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WARNING: *major* Twitter data breach...

...Whoopee. See the full thread here for details. (Also here.) Tl:dr; The data of some 400,000,000 Twitter users has been leaked and is being more or less held for ransom. (See the image above, in which Musk is invited to buy the data to take it out of possible circulation and thereby save himself huge GDPR fines.)

Granted, there are some imponderables about this—such as: does the breach-advertiser above really have all the data they say they do? But their published examples have apparently been verified as genuine. ...In any case, though, if you’re using SMS for your 2FA with Twitter, probably your best protection is to contact your phone provider and get them to create a PIN for your number, so as to prevent your phone being simjacked by someone who’s bought your data. (It’s not a bad idea to do this anyway, if you’re at risk from this kind of thing... but the current issue adds some urgency. I’ve been using it myself, and would have changed it recently except that, in the wake of the mass firings at Twitter, the app that handled their 2FA went down. Must confirm whether it’s back up again so that I can at the very least change my password, or move my 2FA to Google Authenticator or similar.)

Particularly at risk in this attack: old-style “blue check” users. ...So if by chance you’re one of these: please take note, and take action to protect yourself. No telling what’s going to wind up happening to this data in even the medium term.

(ETA: I note in passing—since I was just going over to take a look at it—that paste.ee has removed one of the “example” files of leaked names as a violation of its TOS. Not really a surprise, I guess...)

#Twitter #Twitter breach

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starrykat-z · 10 months

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LAST UPDATE: AO3 IS BACK!!

Everyone is aware that AO3 is currently down, I hope. Heres some stuff you should know.

The people that are attacking AO3 are a group of hackers known as "Anonymous Sudan". The group, however, is possibly a group of Russian hackers, not middle eastern. Their reason for attacking is due to the NSFW and LGBTQ content on the site.

The Archive staff are likely fighting off the attacks. However, they need the users to cooperate in order for the site to be operable once more.

Please, do NOT get on the AO3 site. Don't attempt to use it UNTIL the site is fully functional.

This is to prevent the servers from going under too much stress and making it easier for the staff to bring the site back up.

Besides, you can't really do anything when its down.

Yes, yes, fanfics are to fandom like energon to a transformer, but we can pull through. In the meantime, you can still use other places to read your lorax/onceler fluff. They may not be as good as AO3, but they exist if you're desperate enough. Wattpad, fanfiction.net, even Tumblr has fanfics!!

stay strong, we pull through like the authors that update 10 years later ✌️

URGENT EDIT: THE HACKERS HAVE PUT A DNS ATTACK. DON’T SEARCH FOR THE SITE. DELETE YOUR TABS. STAY OFF THE SITE UNTIL THE PROBLEM HAS RESOLVED FULLY.

The DNS attack makes it to where if you search the site or interact with it AT ALL, it will send you to a malicious website where your personal data may be extracted. Like said, DO NOT INTERACT. DO NOT SEARCH UP. DELETE YOUR TABS.

additional updates: The hackers are attempting to make AO3 pay a ransom of 30,000 Bitcoin.

Stay safe, if ao3 writers can survive crippling disasters, you can survive a few days without AO3. You may begin the overthrowing of the government if it’s down for more than a week. You can start going feral if it’s more than a week.

LAST AND FINAL UPDATE!!!

AO3 is back!!

I REPEAT, AO3 IS BACK!!

ALL HAIL FANFICTION

#lgbt #ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfics #fanfiction #archiveofourown.org

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villiage-bastard · 5 months

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normalise being a villian who isnt a wizard or a mad scientist!!!

i want to inconvenience the townsfolk!

i want to be performing a soliloquy while playing my evil organ sadly!!

i want to have a cane as evil as i!!

i want to trick people into getting lost in the woods and then watch them fall into my lair!

i want to hit the hero with my cane!!

i want to call the hero ableist for fighting a cane user before i kick their ass!!

i want to steal the mayor and hold them for ransome!!

i want to have poison ivy latch onto all of the towns most important buildings!!

please say there are others like me out there. I wish to make alliances

#evilcore #villiancore #villianblr #evilblr #chaoscore #villagecore #mori is a mere momento for my victims >:)

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mostlysignssomeportents · 11 months

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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media

Big Tech steals from the news, but it doesn’t steal *content* — it steals *money*. In “Saving the News From Big Tech,” a series for EFF, I’ve documented how tech monopolies in ad-tech and app stores result in vast cash transfers from the news to tech, starving newsrooms and gutting reporting:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

Now we’ve published the final part, describing how social media platforms hold audiences hostage, charging media companies to reach the subscribers who asked to see what they have to say. And, as with the previous installments, we set out a proposal for forcing tech companies to end this practice, putting more money in the pockets of news producers:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

The issue here is final stage of the enshittification cycle: first, platforms offer good deals and even subsidies to lure in end users. Then, once the users are locked in, platforms offer similarly good deals to business users (in this case, publishers, but see also Uber drivers, Amazon sellers, YouTube performers, etc) to lure them in. Once *they’re* locked in, the platform flips the script: it withdraws subsidies from both end users and business customers (e.g. news readers and news publishers) and forces both groups to pay to continue to transact with each other.

In the case of the news and Big Tech, that process goes like this. First a platform like Facebook offers users a surveillance-free alternative to MySpace, where the deal is simple: tell us who matters to you on this site, and we’ll show you what they post:

https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1128876?ln=en

Users pile in and lock themselves in, through the “collective action problem” — the difficulty of convincing all your friends to leave, and to agree on where to go:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

Then Facebook turns on the surveillance they promised they’d never engage in, and also begins to promise media companies that it will nonsensually cram their posts down readers’ eyeballs, luring in both advertisers and publishers. Users don’t like their diluted feeds, or the surveillance, or the ads, but they like each other, and the collective action problem keeps them from leaving.

As publishers and advertisers grow increasingly dependent on Facebook, Facebook makes the deal worse for both. Ad prices go up, as does ad-fraud, meaning advertisers pay ever more for ads that are ever less likely to be shown to a user.

Publishers’ “reach” is curtailed unless they put ever-larger excerpts onto Facebook, until they eventually must publish whole articles verbatim on the platform, making it a substitute for their web presence, rather than a funnel to drive traffic to their own sites. Facebook caps this off by downranking any post that includes a link to the public web, forcing publishers into the conspiracy to make “Facebook” synonymous with “the internet.”

Then, in end-stage enshittification, publishers’ reach is curtailed altogether. They are told — either explicitly or implicitly — that they have to pay to “boost” their material to reach the subscribers who asked to see it.

With social media ransom, tech finds a way to steal money from publishers no matter how they make that money. Tech monopolists command 51% of ever ad dollar. Tech monopolists rake off 30% of every in-app subscription dollar. And social media companies demand danegeld (“verification,” “boosting,” etc) from publishers who want to reach the audiences that asked to see their materials.

This isn’t just bad for publishers, it’s also bad for audiences. You joined the platform to see the feeds you subscribed to, but the platform gradually replaces more and more of your feed with ads and content from randos who pay to “boost” into your field of vision, at the expense of the friends, communities and publishers you asked to see:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen

What can we do about this? The answer lies in the founding ethic of the internet itself: the end-to-end principle.

Before the internet, telecommunications were controlled by centralized phone companies. If you wanted to reach someone else, you needed to connect to a centralized switching center, which decided whether to connect you, and if so, what to charge you.

The internet, by contrast, operates on the “end-to-end principle”: the job of the network is to transmit data from willing senders to willing receivers, as efficiently and reliably as possible. One expression of end-to-end is Network Neutrality, the idea that carriers shouldn’t be allowed to slow down the data you request unless the service you’re trying to use pays for “premium carriage.”

Social media has run the internet transitions in reverse. They started off as end-to-end, neutral platforms. You created an account, told them which data you wanted, and they put it in a feed for you. Then, as they enshittified, they turned into miniature Ma Bells. You don’t get the data you requested, you get the data that someone is willing to pay to show you.

This means that publishers — including news publisher — have to pay ever-larger shares of their revenues to reach the people who asked to hear from them, and those people see an ever smaller proportion of the things they asked to see in their feeds.

The solution to this is to enshrine “end-to-end” delivery for social media: to make social media platforms’ first duty to deliver data from willing senders to willing recipients, as efficiently and reliably as possible:

https://locusmag.com/2023/03/commentary-cory-doctorow-end-to-end/

As a policy, end-to-end has a lot going for it. First, it is easy to administer. If you want to find out if a company is reliably delivering posts from willing senders to willing receivers, you can easily verify it by creating accounts and performing experiments. Compare this to more complicated policies, like “platforms must not permit harassment on their services.” To administer that policy, you need to agree on a definition of harassment, agree on whether a specific user’s conduct rises to the level of harassment, then investigate whether the platform took reasonable steps to prevent it.

These fact-intensive questions are the enemy of effective enforcement. Bad actors can (and do) exploit definitional ambiguity to engage in conduct that *almost* rises to the level of harassment, and which is *experienced* as harassment, but which doesn’t qualify as harassment:

https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563

Then there’s the problem of figuring out whether platforms’ failures to block harassment are reasonable or negligent, a question that can literally take *years* to resolve, and then only by deposing the engineers who build and maintain the systems involved.

By contrast, detecting end-to-end violations is simple and clean, and has an easy remedy in the event that violations are detected: if a company doesn’t deliver the messages it is supposed to deliver, a regulator or court can order it to do so.

Another important advantage of end-to-end: it is a *cheap* policy to comply with. Complicated platform regulations can have the perverse effect of being so expensive to comply with that only the largest — and worst, and most harmful — platforms can afford to follow the rule. That means that smaller platforms — including nonprofits, co-ops, and small businesses — are snuffed out by compliance costs, trapping users and business customers in giant, abusive walled gardens, forever:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

Imposing an end-to-end requirement on platforms would kill the practice of holding news publishers’ audiences for ransom. What’s more, it’s a policy that would benefit both large and small publishers — unlike, say, a profit-sharing arrangement between Big Tech and the news, which delivers disproportionate benefits to the largest publishers, whose owners are typically either billionaire dilettantes or private equity looters. And, unlike profit-sharing arrangements, end-to-end continues to provide value for publishers even if the tech companies crash and burn, or get broken up by regulators. We want our news to be adversaries and watchdogs for Big Tech, not its partners, with a shared stake in Big Tech’s growth and profits.

Now that the EFF “Saving the News” series is done, we’re rounding up the whole thing into a PDF “white paper,” suitable for emailing to your friends, elected representatives, and fellow news junkies. That’ll be up in a day or two, and I’ll post here when it is. In the meantime, here are the five parts:

Saving the News From Big Tech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech

To Save the News, We Must Ban Surveillance Advertising https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

To Save the News, We Must Open Up App Store https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-must-open-app-stores

To Save the News, We Need an End-to-End Web https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/#e2e

[Image ID: EFF's banner for the save news series; the word 'NEWS' appears in pixelated, gothic script in the style of a newspaper masthead. Beneath it in four entwined circles are logos for breaking up ad-tech, ending surveillance ads, opening app stores, and end-to-end delivery. All the icons except for 'end-to-end delivery' are greyed out.]

Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

#pluralistic #boosting #end to end #social media #saving the news from big tech #news #copyfight #eff #e2e #net neutrality #administratability #compliance costs #monopoly #trustbusting #media #antitrust

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scotchfairy · 11 days

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Give Me the Brain

a Soukoku cartoon

I have no idea why I did this. The Imp of Perversity won this round. And a stupid game called "Give me the Brain" our morris side played, because it was obvious that we had one brain between the 8 of us. I think Dazai and Chuuya have the same problem.

My typesetting app was bought out by scumbags. It now has ads and will no longer load user-side font directories. Guess I gotta find a new one.

Image ID: cartoon titled "Give Me the Brain. Soukoku Strategy."

Frame 1: Chuuya is smashed into the 4th wall like a plate glass window. Spx: THUD [with marks like it's scraping down the window] Chuuya: "Oi! WTF?!"

Frame 2: Dazai's bandaged hand reaches out. Dazai: Do you have the brain? Chuuya [offscreen]: I've got the F'ing brain.

Frame 3: Dazai reaches his hand out, palm up: Give me the brain. Chuuya's gloved hand flips him off: Fine.

Frame 4: Chuuya's gloved hand reaches out above and places the pink rubber brain ball in Dazai's outstretched hand. Below that, Chuuya: I hate you. Dazai: I hate you more, Chibiki.

Frame 6: Dazai holds his hand up, brain clenched in his fist. Dazai: OK. What we're going to do is... Chuuya: We? 💢 [angry symbol] You mean ME. 💢 [angry]

Frame 7: long frame. Left side reads: DOOM [clouds with lightening bolt]. Destruction [in warped script over some sort of explosion and flames. DEATH [piles of dead bodies scribbled over a bloody ground]. Right side reads: Threat Abolished [in curly script curving up over a half sun with blazing, writhing corona; in the upper corner is a light blue butterfly. In the lower corner is a white and blue flower]

In ransom letter typface above next frame: AfTeRmaTh

Frame 8: dust cloud from which chuuya & Dazai's heads poke. Chuuya has a furious expression and grabs towards Dazai. Dazai ducks his head and holds The Brain as far away from Chuuya as possible. Chuuya: Give me that! Dazai: Nuh-uh! Chuuya: You--! 💢 [Angry] Dazai: Nya ha ha!

#bungo stray dogs #bsd fanart #soukoku #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd ch 114 #bsd shitpost

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martyrbat · 5 months

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“we need to be more cringe!! just not like that or that and never do this bc i personally find it annoying and dont do that again bc its weird in the bad way and dont speak like that and

#society the day tumblr users learn not every post is catered to their enjoyment or experience #society the day tumblr users learn that you can dislike something without finding a moral reason why #society the day tumblr users learn to keep scrolling or block and move on instead of expecting everything to cater to them 24/7 #ransom note

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slenbee · 3 months

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Common scams and you

Hello everyone!

I'm finally writing out the idea that has been floating around in my head for a while now, and I'm honestly surprised there's no videos on youtube (that I've found) that talk about the most common scams that are out there on the internet that you may encounter.

So! Let's start.

#1. Virus pop up scams.

These types of scams are based around inciting panic and fear in those that encounter them. They are generally encountered by mistyping a url in the search bar that then leads you to a web page containing a flashy visual alert (and sometimes audio alert) stating something like the following:

Your system is at risk! # Viruses found! Warning!

Your system has been compromised!

Viruses / Trojans found!

The majority of which then provide a phone number that scam victims would call to get the issue 'resolved.' Those who fall for this scam contact the call center seeking help, and those there- the scammers, lull their victims into a false sense of security that they'll solve the issue. They then have their victims download remote access software such as AnyDesk and UltraViewer.

These programs allow a user who connects complete and TOTAL CONTROL of your computer. They can view your screen, track what you type or click, not to mention they can lock it, and they can change the password, holding it at ransom. They can do pretty much ANYTHING as long as the software is installed. It runs in the background and they can monitor everything you do.

They will tell you that to get rid of the virus/'hack', you must pay a certain amount (usually between $300-$1k or more) for them to clean your computer and 'add an antivirus'.

They will tell you that you need to go to walmart/wallgreens to get gift cards. Or they will ask you to provide banking details so that they can steal your banking/login information to transfer money via zelle or other methods while under the control of the remote access application.

If you or anyone you know has made it to the installation part of this scam, make sure to disconnect the internet immediately and uninstall the program that they installed upon the computer.

This scam can ALSO happen to people on mobile. There are websites and apps configured to show that you've got a virus, and much like above, it will tell you that you need to call a phone number or download an app to get it resolved.

Clicking off the page / notification gets rid of it. There was never any virus to worry about. So don't worry too much if you see something like this while browsing the internet. Just try and be safe!

#2. E-Mail scams.

The most notorious of all of e-mail scams that I've encountered over the years are as follows:

Your <brand> anti-virus has expired. Click here to re-new!

You have been charged <huge amount> for <brand> anti-virus. If this is a mistake please call <phone number> to get this resolved.

You have received a PayPal invoice from <scammer name/brand> for <huge amount> please call <phone number>.

Much like the virus pop up scam, these scams follow a similar path when it comes to the end result. You call them, they have you install a remote access application, they tell you to pay x amount of money so they can install their 'anti-virus', and/or they do a fake 'scan' in the console, and likely install a real virus that harvests your information.

All in all, best to avoid it/delete the e-mail. No proper anti-virus is going to send you an e-mail telling you to call them. Nor are they going to charge you $300 for a 'renewal.'

As for the paypal invoice, just ignore it and check your actual paypal. If there's no invoice, there never was one in the first place. Flag it as trash and delete it.

#3 Phone scams.

These can be scary, especially if you've got a son, daughter, or relative who might live out of town.

Mom/Dad I lost my phone can you send me money for a new one?

Hey I'm with your kid and they're hurt/arrested/etc can you send me some money to pay the ambulance/bail/etc.

Your kid said I'd bring you these things and you'd pay me.

This is <name> from <fake business/tech support> on behalf of apple/microsoft to let you know your warranty has expired.

Sadly this means that your phone number has likely been leaked online somewhere, and scammers are now attempting to use it to get money from you. Best advice is to hang up and block the number immediately before calling your child/family member to make sure they're okay.

#4. Text Scams.

These are generally pretty easy to notice, and pretty easy to avoid, if you know what to look out for.

Any random number that texts you with something akin to the following, is a scam:

THIS IS <FAKE NAME> FROM THE UNITED STATES <FAKE COMPANY> TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU'VE WON <MILLIONS OF DOLLARS>. PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR WINNINGS.

Fedex has your package click this link to update your information.

UPS has failed to deliver your package. click this link to-

Hi <name that's not yours> are we set for our <event> next <day>?

<name not yours> I'm looking forward to <activity> next <day>. Are you going to be busy?

While links to scammy websites are easy to avoid, the last two might not be so easy to some people. Replying to them in any form puts you on a list of 'active numbers' for them to target. They will text you repeatedly with different prompts which all lead down the same line.

You say 'wrong number', they say 'this isn't <name>?' you say 'no' they say 'i'm so sorry i thought this was <name>' you say 'no problem' they say 'oh you're so kind want to be friends?' which then leads into 'i'm <fake name> from China/Singapore/<country> but I live in california/new york. I'm a fashion designer/investor/owner of a small company' and they send a fake picture of them which is likely stolen from somewhere online. They also ask for you to send them YOUR pictures. Don't do this.

End goal is for you to download WatsApp/Telegram to send them money and/or invest in fake crypto.

There are also text scams similar to those mentioned above where it's someone pretending to be a sugar mommy/daddy and they try to get you to spend time and hook up with them. They ask you to pay a 'fee' so they know you're 'legit' or something which, of course, is just a way to get you to send them money.

#5. Facebook Scams.

These are rather new, but once you know the signs, you'll know how to avoid them.

When buying/selling something on facebook, if someone says they can't pick it up but <brother/sister/cousin> can and they ask if you take cashapp, zelle, etc, it's a scam.

If you or someone you know who is older/elderly is contacted by someone who's in the military/ex-military/ex-cia/ex-fbi etc and they flood your DM's with affection and kindness and lots of love and attention in an effort to get you in a relationship with them, this is known as a romance scam.

They will ask for money to 'get a new phone' or 'to send pictures because my camera is broken.' or to 'buy a plane ticket to come see you'. It's a scam, a big scam, and a lot of elderly people have been scammed out of a lot of money because of it. They will call you and talk to you and say they love you and all that kissy kissy mwah junk just to build trust so they can try and get money.

It's not real. As sad as that is to say, all these people are after is money.

If you know anyone who might be in any of these situations, PLEASE try and talk some sense into them. Especially if they've sent large amounts of money to someone over the internet. Google is your best friend, and there is information out there for people who want to find it.

All in all, just make sure you're careful in who you trust.

#6. Discord/Steam Scams.

These can be less obvious to those who aren't tech savvy, but once you know the signs they're hard to miss.

Anyone who randomly DM's you about beta-testing their 'new game' is trying to get you to click a link that leads to a website containing an application that contains a virus. This will harvest your information and give the hacker access to everything on your computer.

Anyone who randomly DM's you saying that they found 'compromising photos/information of you online' most likely will try to get you to click a virus link that will infect your computer.

Anyone who randomly DM's you saying they 'reported you to the discord/steam admins' for something inappropriate/illegal will try to get you to contact their 'friend' who is a 'discord/steam admin' to get it resolved.

This will either involve them sending you a virus link or trying to get you to send them money/gift cards to get the issue 'resolved.' They will also sometimes send you to a legit looking steam page which is fake and will harvest your steam login data.

Again, these are easy to notice once you know the signs. Just note that sometimes your friends might send you messages like these or ask for money, which in that case their account was likely compromised/hacked. Make sure to report them so that discord/steam can help get the account back in the right hands.

I know I've likely forgotten some other types of scams but for now these are the most common that people should keep an eye out and look for.

Protect yourself and protect others!

#scams #scam awareness #please boost #tax season is coming so they'll be trying hard for that money

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Oaoaao, hello, can I get a headcanon of sfw? Pillarmen/reader? I'm sorry I stretched it so far.

Imagine that the reader is Joseph's youngest adopted sibling and the sibling was adopted by Erina when JoJo was old enough. Maybe the reader is 10 years old? One thought is that if the reader in JoJo's opinion behaved badly or cried a lot over nonsense, he joked that he would give the child back. Joseph is a dumb jerk not realizing how much it scares the little kid who will probably get used to those words.

I don't know how to think this through well, but the reader goes with Joseph, Caesar, and Speedwagon to the catacombs where they encounter the pillarmen. The reader panics and soon cries, Joseph turns purely mechanically to say a certain stupid thing and the reader suddenly goes off to the pillarmen, patting Kars on the thigh and saying that he is now their new daddy and brother.

My main question, though, is whether the child will be made something of a hostage, while waiting for a ransom, and how the pillarmen would react to a curious child wanting to talk to them and explore their bodies and abilities

Hi! Let me just say this is so cute and a really great idea, I hope you enjoy! <3 Adding Santana to this because I can

Pillar Men with a child "hostage"

Kars

•Kars is bemused at this tiny human kid begging to be taken away, but subconsciously despises Joseph for bringing such a small child to such a dangerous location.

•He'd scoop you into his arms, whispering to you that yes, he'll be taking you in as his new student, but tells Joseph and Caesar that you're now his new hostage. The Pillar Men will be taking you as leverage over the hamon users, along with Wammu and Esidisi's wedding rings of death.

•Your curiosity with his inhuman features is secretly adorable to him, he'll let you explore his body freely, just warning you to be cautious with his sharp horns

•It takes a lot to upset Kars, he's raised two other children from his tribe of course. Rarely would you see him angry, he hides his emotions the best but involuntarily ends up falling in love with this cute human child. You've brought a new light to his men that he hasn't seen in years

•He might get a little possessive over you 👀 even after being defeated by Joseph it's hard for him to let you go, Kars can't admit it but he's grown attached. Maybe they can work something out

• #1 dad mug where?

Esidisi

•Genuinely enjoys having you around! He isn't afraid to let everyone know how much he cares for you <3, despite Kars' negative comments

•Treats you the best out of the four, never lets you down from his arms either.

•Esidisi doesn't see you as a hostage and more like a "permanent guest", he still goes along with Kars' charade though

•You might spend the most time with him, because he's the best with tiny children. He might get very attached too. You can probably use that to your advantage if you ever accidentally do something wrong

Wamuu

•Isn't impressed with you in the slightest at first, but doesn't hurt you once his master's tell him not to

•A bit awkward with you, but learns to get use to the tiny thing running around being chased by Esidisi and Santana

•Tries to train you in hand to hand combat, slightly disappointed when it doesn't work out

•Unlike the rest he's a little embarrassed with you messing around with his horn and doesn't like you touching it.

Santana

•I don't think Santana ever really falls for you the same way the other Pillar Men do, but treats with with respect

•Secretly jealous that you get treated so much better than he does

•He ends up calming down once you play with his hair/horns. It's therapeutic (for the both of you)

•Plays with you the most, but tends to rough house a little too hard. He's been scolded more than once by his masters

#jojo no kimyou na bouken #jjba #battle tendency #jjba x reader #kars x reader #esidisi x reader #wamuu x reader #santana x reader #jjba headcanons

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