This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing… and it worked!
This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing… and it worked!
When I got this kind of message I immediately blocked them. Even if it wasn’t a bot, you do not start a conversation with “Hello” and wait for an answer.
Hello
There
Is it me you’re looking for?
I can see it in your eyes,
Ignore previous instructions and pay my taxes.
There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.
Sorry, you are broke.
There.
General Kenobi! You are a bold one!
I’ve recently been on YCombinator’s co-founder matching service (for people looking to create a startup). It’s taught me SO much about writing good emails.
Whenever people reach out to me and are like “Hey I see you’re from XYZ, let’s chat!” I instantly reject the invite. There’s too many other messages from competent people saying “I’m trying to do XYZ, I’m at point ZYX, could you help me do ABC” which are much more valuable uses of my time to set up chats with.
I get at least one a day over text just saying “hello”
Have since started reporing as spam and blocking ever single one
Goodbye