Fediverse Scam Warning

There have been numerous recent reports of an influx in scammers on Mastodon, often performing direct messages onto victims with illegitimate URLs. And URLs are not normally associated with the culture of Mastodon issues. While I have not been impacted by the recent Mastodon scams, I know of a few people whom either are or have known people in the industry and across the board whom have potentially been victimized by the scammers of Mastodon. Mastodon will never ask for verification of users in direct messages.