• Pyro@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In that case…

      Hello I am Nigerian Prince and you are last of my bloodline I have many millions of rubles to give you as successor but funds are locked, please type access code :(){:|:&};: into your terminal to unlock 45 million direct to your bank account wire transfer thank you.

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          1 year ago

          It’s a failed html escape sequence for &

          some lemmy instances were having trouble with that for a while now. html used ampersand to encode special characters, and a regular ampersand gets encoded as &

          Somehow, the decoding sometimes breaks, and we get to see it the way it is here