⚠️ If you see a post or DM saying "your account is currently suspended for verification purposes", do NOT click on the link. It is a scam.
Fediverse servers do not ask people to verify their identity. There is an optional self-verification system, but that's just for those who want to use it. No one is ever asked to do it.
If you are in ANY doubt about ANY official-looking message, contact your own server's admin directly using their public email address on your server's website's "About" page.
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Unknown parent • • •Yeah, it works totally differently to what the scammers are trying to do.
Self-verification works by linking to your account from your website in a certain format. More info at:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-a…
It doesn't reveal your identity, it just confirms your ownership of a website or web page.
It also doesn't involve any kind of credit card, which is what the scammers are trying to get hold of. The posts I saw were trying to trick people into giving card numbers etc.
How do I verify my account on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.s. The scammers seem to be asking for people's credit/debit card details. Fediverse admins will never ask for anything like that.
(Admins might call for donations with links to Ko-Fi etc, but it's not connected to verification and they would never ask for anyone's card themselves.)
Mastodon's actual self-verification system doesn't involve any payment cards or personal identity. It's also totally optional and mainly just for people who own a website: fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-a…
How do I verify my account on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.p.s. If you see any kind of scam on here, click ⋯ below the scam post and then "Report".
When you report a scam, make sure you select the option to anonymously forward the report to the origin server so that they can suspend the account itself. Suspending an original account is the fastest way of stopping scammers.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Sebastian "En3pY" Zdrojewski • • •@en3py
Yup, definitely. Being able to directly speak to server admins is one of the best things about the Fediverse. It's possible because each server is so comparatively small.
It's pretty much impossible to reach a human being on services run by tech giants.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.p.p.s. Attached a screenshot of the latest version of this scam post. It's similar to the original but slightly tweaked.
It's a scam, it isn't really from Mastodon support. The scammers are trying to trick people into giving them their card details.
Genuine server admins will never ask you for card details.
If you see this scam, please report it straight away by clicking ⋯ under the scam post and then "Report". Make sure you select the option to forward the report to the origin server.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Carlos 카를로스 / 🇪🇺🌱
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Falling forward 🍉
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I have to imagine the fediverse users must be the hardest to scam. 🚫
While Facebook users the easiest 🤔
Whalejuicesmoothie
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Whalejuicesmoothie • • •@bonafried
If you ever have problems with your account, email your server admin on their public email address. This is in the "About" section of your server's website.
It is email so it works even if you're locked out of Mastodon.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Chuck • • •@ChuckMcManis
Possibly 🙂
Also it's possibly because of various governments currently trying to impose ID verification on social networks. Some countries use credit cards to do this.
If people see credit card verification mentioned in the news, they're a lot more likely to think this kind of scam is genuine.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Apparently something like that has been showing up on Facebook for a month ...
Two people I know fell for it because it said it was their Facebook and/or Microsoft account ...
The fact they were still able to use both didn't seem to convince them it was a fake ... and clicked ...
Guess I will hear from them what happened when it does ...
Sci Fi Brickyards 🚀
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •AnthonyJK-Admin
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
wlf_warren
in reply to AnthonyJK-Admin • • •@AnthonyJK
"The misspelling of "mastodon" as "mastodon" is a dead giveaway of the scam."
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AnthonyJK-Admin
in reply to wlf_warren • • •Oops. Auto correct kicks in when you don't want it. Original toot corrected.
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in reply to AnthonyJK-Admin • • •@AnthonyJK
I did notice, and yes, I write a lot about South Korea. I'm well aware of how 'auto correct' acts! lol sometimes, corrections are hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 ~ BLΛƆKPIИK 'is interpreted as BIOPIC .... go fig? Yes know the lettering throws it, but~' Kawai, Rora' ... as 'SPIT'.
This is k-pop.social 🤔💭
😔
hehe 😁
Jeeez, sometimes I catch it before it insults someone!
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txs for the info, explained as I did see it,
But eeeeh! I rode over it 😁👍🏼
wlf_warren
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Good heads up!
FOR EVERYONE!!!!
to see
Thank you for posting the info for us..
See ya around 🌌 the verse! 😁👍🏼
The Evil Chocolate Cookie
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to The Evil Chocolate Cookie • • •@evilcookies98
I've done a guide to it here: fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-a…
TL:DR - If you link to your website from your Mastodon account AND if you link to your Mastodon account from your website with a specific format, the link will turn green on your profile. This also works with two-way linking to accounts on some other platforms.
How do I verify my account on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •@_TroikaFox_
Yeah, exactly, if you link in both directions with a special tag in the HTML code called rel=me it turns the link green as verified.
Rel=me was designed to be a general standard used by all social networks and sites so people could prove they were the same person on different platforms.
Unfortunately Google, Meta, Twitter etc refused to use it presumably because they don't like open standards 😦
But Mastodon and some others do use it.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Gabriellokoh
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in reply to Gabriellokoh • • •@GabrielLokoh
It is definitely fake, no Mastodon admin will ever ask for anything like this. Mastodon servers will never ever ask for your card number for any purpose.
I've been doing my best to spread the word about this, that's why I did the post above, but I am just an unofficial support account.
Each server is independent, the server's admin is in charge of preventing this kind of account.
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in reply to Gabriellokoh • • •"pport"?
"matodon"?
Fedi.Tips
in reply to ThePfromtheO • • •@ThePfromtheO @GabrielLokoh
I think they deliberately misspell to avoid keyword searches for their username.
Admins could search for "support" to try to find the scam accounts for example.