Scam Numbers - Reddit's (and possibly the internet's) largest scam number depository, now on Lemmy!

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.

We also have a Matrix space!

RedditRefugee69,

Can someone explain to me how to use this data to block calls?

otter, (edited )

Welcome! Consider sharing on !communityPromo

Also these are a universal links and they makes it easier for people to subscribe from other instances

  • !scamnumbers (simplest, but some apps don’t support it)
  • link (more complicated and requires someone to be on Lemmy when viewing the link)

Otherwise people can use something like the instance assistant browser extension

tkk13909, (edited )

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.

DripGeronimo,

I’ve switched instances from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip as .world was very slow with updating their server

ZeroCool, (edited )

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!

Blaze,
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Well done, good luck with your community!

Blaze,
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lemmy.zip is a tech oriented instance. They have !technology and !databreaches which are quite interesting

Levsgetso,

Saw you recently created an account here. You truly are everywhere lol

Blaze,
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Yes, I’m trying to promote that instance a bit, the admins put a lot of work into it

Levsgetso,

They really are amazing. Glad to have you with us 😊

brbposting,

Oh badd Google!

potvanherb,
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Great writeup and easy to understand. What would be a solution to this problem?

418teapot, (edited )

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:

github.com∕foo∕bar∕baz@example.com/foo/…/baz.zip

Or even use a subdomain to remove the @:

github.com∕foo∕bar∕baz.example.com/foo/…/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 .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.

tkk13909,

Exactly

WanderingVentra,

I didn’t know there was a subreddit for this. That’s cool. Definitely subscribing.

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