Like has anyone talked to her or is it a scam?

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      10 hours ago

      I still stand by Nicole being one of those two Russian steam accounts I linked to when the scam first popped up.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s not the only account. Sorry for the picture but I can’t copy/paste from my blocklist.

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    The pictures look like screen grabs of a zoom call, not really profile pics.

    Most romance scammers steal random photos from online. “Nicole” could be a yahoo boy in Lagos, or multiple guys working for a quasi-state approved Russian operation.

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      I don’t think this is a romance scam. The linked matrix basically doxes her workplace and all of her images, like you said, appear to be from a webcam. It looks more like harassment to me.

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    I’ve said before and I’ll repeat here again that we really ought to be denying recognition to the person behind those messages, whoever they are.

    That said, I remember not long ago reading a comment that somebody had actually seen the person in those images livestream, which wouldn’t be possible if these were just photos of a person who had nothing to do with it.