if OOTL: these scam sites have been a thing for ages and shows some bs code on your screen like its doing something and then requires “human verification”, making you enter your personal information. (and surprise, you don’t get the gems or whatever you wanted)

  • not quite01(they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I remember these scams where you had to put in you phone number then reply to a text message and then you would automatically subscirbe to a contract for apps that are free anyways and not even the oddicial repo.

    Also for obvous reasons it woukd not work.