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Ban of "Nicole" images and potential doxing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello world,

as many of you may already be aware, there is an ongoing spam attack by a person claiming to be Nicole.

It is very likely that these images are part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted in the images shared as part of this spam.

Although the spammer claims to be the person in the picture, we strongly believe that this is not the case and that they're only trying to frame them.

Starting immediately, we will remove any images depicting "Nicole" and information that may lead to identifying the real person depicted in those images to prevent any possible harassment.
This includes older posts and comments once identified.

We also expect moderators to take action if such content is reported.

While we do not intend to punish people posting this once, not being aware of the context, we may take additional actions if they continue to post this content, as we consider this to be supporting the harassment campaign.

Discussion that does not include the images themselves or references that may lead to identifying the real person behind the image will continue to be allowed.

If you receive spam PMs please continue reporting them and we'll continue working on our spam detections to attempt to identify them early before they reach many users.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This would require a lot more than 15 minutes to file a proper report…. All of this would easily add up to 2 hours or more…

Tell you what: log the time it takes, and I will personally pay you $60/hour for your time to make a proper report.

And no, I’m not being sarcastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I truly appreciate the offer, but my concern isn't about money, it's about this taking away even more of my personal time. If this was a regular day job I was doing, rather than my actual day job, which I have in addition to the time I spend on Lemmy.World related activities, then I could file this during my regular working hours. After all, it's time I'd spend being at work anyway.

I've recently been spending countless hours already dealing with other stuff that is not directly tied to Lemmy.World but came up "around" it, including sending abuse reports to various instances about CSAM that federated to them a long time ago. This includes time spent on identifying such material, then finding suitable abuse report mechanisms, providing instructions for how to deal with it. Afterwards it needs reviewing whether the content has been removed or requires further escalation steps, such as one case where I've filed a police report today for a case where neither the instance itself nor the hosting provider deals with abuse reports at all.

As mentioned before, there also seem to have been two different people involved in sending these messages, the original person, where most of the information is/was available publicly and has been collected by various people already, who would be in a much better position to report this content to law enforcement.
The person sending the gore images did in fact use a Lemmy.World account in one case, which we do have more information about than publicly available or available for users on other instances, so this would be the only case for which we'd be in a privileged position for reporting. This however would also most certainly not be a report that would help any sort of harassment investigation, as this copycat probably doesn't have any ties to the original harasser.

If we had a significantly larger amount of donations towards our foundation we'd also be able to pay someone to deal with things like this, but we're currently just over the hosting costs with our monthly donations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No need, this info isn't hard to compile, only took a few hours. If anyone does intend to take this to law enforcement, please PM me as I have compiled what I think to be almost all of the public information available about this case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

you could easily report this to the police yourself then. i don't really have anything more than what is publicly available, with the exception being one of the gore spam accounts.

I'm not saying you have to, but given that various people already collected a lot of information related to that stuff, they would be much better suited in actually reporting this to police somewhere.