So there is our girl, now she goes straight ahead asking for money lol

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    52·
    2 days ago

    I feel bad for the real “nicole” who is probably some innocent woman who got her pics stolen

        • Psythik@lemm.ee
          2·
          7 hours ago

          This seems likely cause she never seems to actually pose for any of the pics. In every photo it just looks like someone staring at their laptop screen.

          Probably some malware on her machine that takes a snapshot every few minutes when she’s using her PC and sends it to the attacker. It’s possible she has no idea.

      • SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
        15·
        16 hours ago

        "Hi,

        I’m the real Nicole. I got all my pictures stolen, my identity has been tainted and life is very hard for me now, because of these scammers.

        Please send help! Here’s my bitcoin wallet. "

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days ago

    I like that it is “nicole101” like a tutorial showing you the scam early, so that when you see the og nicole you can already know it’s a scam even though there is no btc there.

  • Porto881@lemmy.worldEnglish
    657·
    2 days ago

    Start an onlyfans and show us your shitter Nicole and I’ll decide if youre worth subscribing to once it leaks to Bunkr

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
    25·
    2 days ago

    A new picture again, isn’t it? I wonder who the person is. Maybe it’s really the “hacker” or they downloaded their insta? Are the photos even insta material? Where would you upload the variety of images of her? Or are they screenshots from conversations? I kind of want to know but I want it to not be creepy

    • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
      33·
      2 days ago

      The current most likely theory of the people that dove headfirst into this seems to be, that she was a small streamer on peertube and other platforms (hence the many different webcam images, too). Looking into the chat of the stream on her peertube account reveals at least one person, that had all their messages removed by her. The linked accounts on the most common spam messages feel more like doxxing attempts, too - with ones like this asking for money most likely being copycats, as in the original messages and linked communities, there was a suspicious lack of asking for money or trying to start contact for a romance/catfishing scam.

      This would all point to some kind of crazy stalker trying to doxx this woman for whatever reason, in a pretty weird way. Maybe they hoped it would get us all riled up and hating on her? Maybe they thought by just seeing her, we’d react in some way? Maybe they just wanted the feeling of power to doxx and intimidate her, and no real plan beyond that?

      Whatever it is, it really looks more like creepy shit than scam shit at this point, from what I have gathered in the community research that has been happening.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      33·
      2 days ago

      Every photo I’ve seen of “Nicole” looks like it was grabbed from a video call, including the fake social media pages someone linked to.

        • Allero@lemmy.todayOP
          3·
          13 hours ago

          Yes. Bitcoin, as most cryptocurrencies, has an open ledger, meaning all transactions (and, by extension, wallet amounts) in the network are public. Everyone can see any transactions associated with any wallet.

          Thereby, if someone knows a certain person is an owner of a given wallet (and the effort is to associate those two things by introducing identity verification on all major exchanges), they can know every transaction you have ever made. In fact, there are several analytical companies (for example, Chainalysis) that process this very information in bulk to help authorities combat criminal activity.

          There are cryptocurrencies in which this data is encrypted, like Monero. There, you cannot view transactions associated with the wallet address unless you got a special key only the wallet owner can give to you.

          There are also cryptocurrencies like Zcash, in which you can choose whether to encrypt your transactions or not.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
            2·
            13 hours ago

            Imagine if actual wallets worked like that, and everyone knew what your bank balance was.

            That’s wild.

            • Allero@lemmy.todayOP
              2·
              7 hours ago

              Might actually be good in some ways - less options to hide ill-gotten gains, or to award people wildly different salaries based on what they’re ready to settle for.

              I believe in Sweden, for example, the information on income should legally be public for everyone.