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 Iโ€™d politely disagree my fren, one easy way of verifying nostr:npub12z8jsett3k6rv9fa2guau5p540qr2xuvjzkr8e432mglafjt99sqkw9zmx is real is by reaching out to her on social media accounts where her digital footprint extends years, IG & twitter.. I did this myself before I interacted with her, and I tend to do this with many other profiles asking for them to their reply on those socials to a dm or to add their nostr profile to their linktree links they have on those legacy social media profiles. 

One way of finding those profiles is if theyโ€™re using the same name on here as they were in their legacy social medias (good sign) then a google search of their username is all you need to find those accounts (IG,Twitter,etc), if not you can use google image search to drop in a picture they have here on nostr to see if you find a trace of it on the internet, most likely youโ€™ll get a hit on 3/10 pictures, sometimes you wonโ€™t get any hits if theyโ€™re ai generated, then in that case you need a trained eye which not many posses. But they are so obvious if you spend more than an hour on the internet every single day of your life.