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  4. 🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.

🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.

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  • stux⚡S stux⚡

    🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

    Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

    Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

    WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

    Travis JeansT This user is from outside of this forum
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    #20

    @stux Reported!

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    • draeathD draeath

      @poisonpunk @stux that's a separate and (I believe) legitimate thing people are trying to manage.

      I see a lot of #gazaverified people acting kinda spammy, though, but I am never sure it's not just a misunderstanding of how to use the platform or sheer desperation.

      Gif's ArtidoteP This user is from outside of this forum
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      #21

      @draeath @stux 💯🖤free 🇵🇸

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      • stux⚡S stux⚡

        🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

        Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

        Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

        WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

        Lauri Kuparinen 🇪🇺L This user is from outside of this forum
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        Lauri Kuparinen 🇪🇺
        wrote last edited by
        #22

        @stux But, but... how do I know if someone's a celebrity if there's no verification badge? 😮

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        • Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:S Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

          @sortius @stux Or, as someone else put it, my voice is my passport.

          Steen Eiler JørgensenO This user is from outside of this forum
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          Steen Eiler Jørgensen
          wrote last edited by
          #23

          @Steve @sortius @stux Wasn't it Werner Brandes?

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          • stux⚡S stux⚡

            🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

            Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

            Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

            WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

            Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國T This user is from outside of this forum
            Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國T This user is from outside of this forum
            Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國
            wrote last edited by
            #24

            @stux
            Lots of fake-looking accounts claiming to be from #Gaza 🇵🇸 and asking for #money recently. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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            • Gif's ArtidoteP Gif's Artidote

              @stux
              what about #GazaVerified ?

              Aral BalkanA This user is from outside of this forum
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              #25

              @poisonpunk @stux That’s very specific. And we never reach out to anyone to ask them to get verified.

              (And I wish we didn’t need it.)

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              • stux⚡S stux⚡

                🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

                Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

                Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

                WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

                Stop ThatS This user is from outside of this forum
                Stop ThatS This user is from outside of this forum
                Stop That
                wrote last edited by
                #26

                @stux @aral I literally just got one from an account claiming to be mastodon staff, where they said they had noticed my posts are getting attention and offering me an opportunity for monetization, with a link to click on. I laughed and laughed and hit “report user,” because lol.

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                • stux⚡S stux⚡

                  🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

                  Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

                  Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

                  WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

                  InformactionsMCM This user is from outside of this forum
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                  InformactionsMC
                  wrote last edited by
                  #27

                  @stux
                  Signalement de verifinotifff@mastodon.world

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                  • stux⚡S stux⚡

                    🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

                    Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

                    Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

                    WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

                    MartaM This user is from outside of this forum
                    MartaM This user is from outside of this forum
                    Marta
                    wrote last edited by
                    #28

                    @stux I wonder how is Mastodon doing in countries that ban social media for kids?

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                    • stux⚡S stux⚡

                      🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

                      Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

                      Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

                      WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

                      Earthlingz FREE PAL HOSTAGESL This user is from outside of this forum
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                      Earthlingz FREE PAL HOSTAGES
                      wrote last edited by
                      #29

                      @stux sample

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                      • Steen Eiler JørgensenO Steen Eiler Jørgensen

                        @Steve @sortius @stux Wasn't it Werner Brandes?

                        Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:S This user is from outside of this forum
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                        #30

                        @oz1sej @sortius @stux That's the one!

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                        • stux⚡S stux⚡

                          🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

                          Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

                          Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

                          WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

                          ArazilA This user is from outside of this forum
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                          wrote last edited by
                          #31

                          @stux Another attack vector enabled by the current "ID verification" craze. 🙄

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                          • stux⚡S stux⚡

                            🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

                            Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

                            Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

                            WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON

                            נחום Philoxenon וו.N This user is from outside of this forum
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                            נחום Philoxenon וו.
                            wrote last edited by
                            #32

                            @stux You can verify your account if you wish but that process is totally up to you. Nobody will ask you to do it and you control all aspects of the process yourself.

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