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Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't dealt with them personally before, but I did ask a poster before if they could hide the spam comments, and they said no since they couldn't see it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhh, OK. So they can't see the comment to even hide it. That is crazy.