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[–] Steve@communick.news 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yah, that really seems out of place with the rest of the list. How does one "fall for" cyberbullying? Where's the scam?

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Maybe being bullied into compliance?

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Well, the quoted section doesn't say falling for. It says reports victimization.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'm also curious about what their threshold for being "victimized" by romance scams is. I've wasted time chatting with romance scammers (both bots and ones with real people responding to messages), but haven't ever given them or their shady sites my CC info, would I count as a "victim"?

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[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Why include cyber bullying?

I believe they mean something like being victim in a case of someone extorting them by threatening to leak photos/videos?

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

That's still not mixable with scams.

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[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago

I think some of these just overlap. For example there can be a scammer pretending to be someone who is not. Then the victim may share content that wouldn't share otherwise. Then the scammer extortions the victim by threatening to leak content in the victim's social circle.