All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.

  • BrickfrogEnglish
    530·
    3 months ago3 months ago

    That’s some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit’s default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.

    The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod’s PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncryptedEnglish
      80·
      3 months ago3 months ago

      Is… Is there some reason not to send that much money via PayPal?

      Asking for a friend.

      • lazynoobletEnglish
        170·
        3 months ago

        PayPal allow easy reversal if transactions. Their dispute team favour protecting the buyer by far.

        • my_hat_stinksEnglish
          120·
          3 months ago3 months ago

          That’s an understatement, PayPal will pretty much always side with the buyer no matter how ridiculous and outlandish their claim. I even had one “dispute” where the scammer changed the dispute reason which caused PayPal to ignore what I’d already submitted and close it in their favour by default as “no response”. PayPal is very much pro-scammer, avoid if possible.

          It’s been a few years since I’ve had to deal with clients directly, I don’t think I’ll ever miss it.

          • TheGalacticVoidEnglish
            20·
            3 months ago

            As a buyer, I’ve had to fight hard to get items returned to scammy sellers.

        • EveryMuffinIsNowEncryptedEnglish
          50·
          3 months ago

          I only ask because I have some members of my family transfer money between them, and it’s usually a high amount like that.