The place to dump all kinds of scam numbers to prank call them and also to
spread awareness against such scammers. Find active scam numbers daily! NOTE:
POSTING ANY KIND OF PERSONAL NUMBER (INCLUDING SPOOFS) IS STRICTLY AGAINST THE
RULES. If you see a personal number, REPORT the post and/or DM a moderator.
Matrix Space [https://matrix.to/#/#ScamNumbers:matrix.org] Subreddit
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ScamNumbers/] 1. Do not post personal phone numbers.
You are NOT allowed to post personal phone numbers of any kind, including the
scammer’s personal phone number. 2. No harassment. This community strictly
forbids harassing other people, for example by posting other’s personal phone
numbers to prank call them. If prank calling scammers, please to not overly
harass them. There is a line between a small joke prank call and completely
harassing someone. 3. No “Any numbers?” posts No “Anyone have any numbers?”-type
posts are allowed. That’s what the whole point of the sub is. Sort the subreddit
by “New” to see (possibly) active numbers. Other questions are fine though. 4.
No scambait videos/pictures without contact info Videos and pictures of
scambaits must include the scammer’s contact information somewhere that is
easily visible (title, thumbnail, top bar of texting apps, etc.).
With almost 40k subscribers on Reddit, r/ScamNumbers is one of the most useful online databases for tracking down scam phone numbers. Some use the information for awareness, while others take advantage by prank calling scammers to waste their time.
Whatever the case may be, we have a zero-tolerance policy towards personal phone numbers. We have enforced this rule severely on Reddit and will do the same here.
But why is it hosted on a .zip domain?
Edit: for clarification, I don’t have anything against having different instances. I’m just wary of anything using the .zip tld.
It’s for the best anyway. It’s better for the health of the fediverse when communities are spread out across a wide array of instances. The consolidation of communities on lemmy.world is not ideal. Good luck with the community!
I hate that Google is exerting even more control on the internet with their TLD, but I don’t really think this attack is made all that much worse with .zip TLD. I can already bury a .com in a long URL and end it in .zip just fine like so:
The truth is most people don’t look much at URLs outside of a domain to verify its authenticity, at which point the .zip TLD does not do much more harm than existing domains do.
For mitigation, Firefox already doesn’t display the username portion of the URL on hover of a link and URL-encodes it if copy-pasted into the url bar. It also displays the punycode representation when hovering or navigating to the second example.
Edit: looks like lemmy now replaces 0x2215 which is a character that looks like forward slash with an actual forward slash, so my comment is a bit more confusing. For clarity, the slashes beforeexample.com in the above urls were 0x2215 and not “/”.
Another problem is if you’re trying to sub to a community on lemmy.zip, it can be impossible if the server hosting your instance has blocked all .zip domains through their hosts file or even their Lemmy instance. You would be able to see it, but your instance won’t.
People and admins not trusting that TLD can be just as detrimental to people interacting with legit sites on that TLD, as its potential for abuse is at making it untrustworthy to begin with
But why is it hosted on a .zip domain? Edit: for clarification, I don’t have anything against having different instances. I’m just wary of anything using the .zip tld.
I’ve switched instances from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip as .world was very slow with updating their server
It’s for the best anyway. It’s better for the health of the fediverse when communities are spread out across a wide array of instances. The consolidation of communities on lemmy.world is not ideal. Good luck with the community!
Well done, good luck with your community!
lemmy.zip is a tech oriented instance. They have !technology@lemmy.zip and !databreaches@lemmy.zip which are quite interesting
Saw you recently created an account here. You truly are everywhere lol
Yes, I’m trying to promote that instance a bit, the admins put a lot of work into it
They really are amazing. Glad to have you with us 😊
Oh badd Google!
Exactly
Great writeup and easy to understand. What would be a solution to this problem?
I hate that Google is exerting even more control on the internet with their TLD, but I don’t really think this attack is made all that much worse with .zip TLD. I can already bury a
.comin a long URL and end it in .zip just fine like so:https://github.com∕foo∕bar∕baz@example.com/foo/bar/baz.zip
Or even use a subdomain to remove the @:
https://github.com∕foo∕bar∕baz.example.com/foo/bar/baz.zip
The truth is most people don’t look much at URLs outside of a domain to verify its authenticity, at which point the
.zipTLD does not do much more harm than existing domains do.For mitigation, Firefox already doesn’t display the username portion of the URL on hover of a link and URL-encodes it if copy-pasted into the url bar. It also displays the punycode representation when hovering or navigating to the second example.
Edit: looks like lemmy now replaces
0x2215which is a character that looks like forward slash with an actual forward slash, so my comment is a bit more confusing. For clarity, the slashes beforeexample.comin the above urls were0x2215and not “/”.Another problem is if you’re trying to sub to a community on lemmy.zip, it can be impossible if the server hosting your instance has blocked all .zip domains through their hosts file or even their Lemmy instance. You would be able to see it, but your instance won’t.
People and admins not trusting that TLD can be just as detrimental to people interacting with legit sites on that TLD, as its potential for abuse is at making it untrustworthy to begin with