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by imtringued 796 days ago
You go on a dating app, a girl responds with her nudes and you send yours. It turns out it was a guy looking to extort you.
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This happened to my son… they had a couple hundred in Apple gift cards out of him before we found out and stopped it
> You go on a dating app, a girl responds with her nudes

My first assumption would be the "girl" is a bot and the image generated by AI until proven otherwise, i.e. by meeting up at a public location and seeing it's a real person from my country. Am I too paranoid? It sure feels like the dead internet theory is just about to get real and we should act accordingly.

This (and your grandparent comment) seem like such an unhelpful line of commentary. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt but the vibe I get from those two comments is: "I wouldn't fall for it, therefore other people's kids should know better. It's so obvious!".

People who are exposed to this line of thinking will now be doubly ashamed if they fall for this, making them even less likely to ask for help.

There's a real world parallel in Search and Rescue operations that I'm personally familiar with: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2021/01/17/shaming-those-who-n...

> a girl responds with her nudes and you send yours

But... WHY?! You're not The Rock. Unless you're ripped and/or packing, the chances of your "nudes" sent in reply scaring the recipient away are pretty high.