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The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other..

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[โ€“] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do these scamers know who our friends are? Also how are they able to get pictures or video from said friend to create the fake?

[โ€“] kn33@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In my case, the friend's facebook account was compromised. So they were able to get his pictures and call me from his account.