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[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder if it was a romance scam.

The "scam" seemed to be "Look, a woman. Give us money." Like, it was so obviously a scam that I started wondering what was really going on.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It sure seemed like one, yeah. One unusual thing is that there was apparently a Discord channel with multiple marks in it at once.