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/c/Scams on Lemmy.one is an anti-scam discussion and advice community oriented towards helping educate people about common scams.

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I’ve been looking around on dating sites and similar apps and I’m trying to be careful about sextortion scams. To reduce risk, I’m using a prepaid phone that I bought with cash, and I set up a new Gmail account that isn’t connected to any of my personal information. The phone hasn’t been connected to my home Wi-Fi and there are no contacts, address, or credit card tied to anything. My question is: if I ended up talking to someone who turned out to be a bot or a sextortion scammer and I sent private photos or did a video chat, what could they realistically do with that if they don’t know who I am? If they don’t have my real name, social media, or contacts, is there still a way they could track me down or actually blackmail me? Or would they mostly just try to scare me into paying? Just trying to understand what the real risks are before I do anything stupid.

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What a cult. Trying to make sure the maximum number of people self identify as having ADHD so they can claim it's a "serious issue" LMAO.

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According to the Federal Trade Commission, you shouldn't respond to these texts or click on any links on them—the smart thing to do is to block these numbers and get on with your day. But I wanted to see what happens to people who follow through and actually try to get the job, so I answered a scam text, and it led me down a surprisingly long road that included bogus online piecework, a discussion of the nature of labor itself, and repeated requests for $33.

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Just trying to protect the public from a scam contractor named Nova One Construction, LLC based in Mahwah, NJ. We had a bathroom renovated and the work was so bad that we had to rip it all out and redo it. The owner of this company is named Steve Bonder who is a deceitful crook.