Got scammed by a smart Pleb for $500 bucks on a account swap
Good old uppercase i instead of an L
If you reading this, you totally deserve the Sats ๐คฃ๐๐ช
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Donโt be sorry, totally my fault was late and I wasnโt paying attention. Pleb offered account username, Iโd said sure and got hold of the account pre-payment. Was able to login and change pw, then sent payment ๐๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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there are also many options in the unicode alphabet like say 'cแดldcard'...
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I don't think Twitter allows more than ASCII in usernames, which is a solid approach. They have display names for that and generally always show the username alongside the display name. Matrix clients tend to only show display name which is horrible and helps people scam others.
Yes, the long string username systems with soft display names NGMI
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Matrix display names have been repeatedly used in attacks on GrapheneOS where people impersonate myself and trick members of our community and others.
twitter.com/GrapheneOS/sta
Element only shows the username if there's an ambiguous display name but you could just fake that UI.
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This is a fake account. It's not @strcat:matrix.org. It's incorrectly shown that way in common Matrix clients. It's part of the ongoing raids against our channels.
Most users in both channels are receiving these messages. Screenshots are from one of those users.
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l and I being near identical is a font design flaw. It's quite silly that most sans serif fonts are screwed up that way.
There are properly designed sans serif open fonts like fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-s. It also has a slashed zero option for 0 vs. O too.
otf.show/zero?font=Sour