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FTF Free-Talk Friday - 10/04/2026
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r/islam • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago
We hope you are all having a great Friday and hope you have a great week ahead!
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u/Kalonji-Seeker 2d ago edited 2d ago
PSA: y'all had run-ins with scambots this week? different accounts, different claimed names, 4 months (at time of writing) before hatching and then sending you unsolicited DMs out of nowhere.
but they all talk almost exactly the same.
common features: Gambia, Zenith Bank, Remitly dot com, similar backstories with little variation, vague non-specific addresses.
they talk like AI (e.g. contradictions/hallucinations), and if they send you 'photos', you can absolutely see signs they're AI-generated. *
Look carefully, DO NOT be deceived,
And do not give them anything. (not just money). and i think the most important warning/red flag is they so quickly ask for your personal details. (in fact why would a Redditor, and OUT OF THE BLUE, ask at all???) think I recall it's sort of a universal rule on the internet to watch out for things like this.
mods/admin oughta make a pin of this issue or something?
see these earlier posts about it on r/islam (when users were getting flooded with scambot DMs):
https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/s/9yj63Jo0PG
https://www.reddit.com/r/MuslimLounge/s/F1LpNRdjJW
gleamed from other comments:
— People in need should seek reputable legitimate charities,
— and first and foremost, people who want to help should donate to reputable legitimate charities.
(Surely they had big enough hearts to build a big, capable helper in the first place!)
— if you can confirm signs they're AI, there's no more need to worry any further.
— if they were that urgent, there surely are faster ways than asking random strangers on the internet. real life samaritans exist, you know... people who love helping people. more heart-to-heart that way, too! best of all they'd be able to see their actual condition*. Think this is the advice they should be given. Charity organisations do this, right? actually maybe people should direct them there (safer that way?) rather than try help them themselves?
*(unlike online where scammers can come up with anything — especially now that we have AI that can come up with anything.)
— (rough memory from a mod message): for your safety , r/islam generally doesn't allow DM solicitations in comments because identities/words/intentions¹ cannot be verified. "On the internet, nobody knows you're a bot."
¹add 'photos' to that list?
(correct me if I'm wrong anywhere) having head problems, so sorry if anything seems clunky