Of course. Why wouldn’t a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?
More importantly than being gullible, they often have substantial money and property.
It’s hard to see how thwy still manage to have much money after all the grifters have been picking their pockets.
A lot of these folks have passive income streams that make falling for a four or five digit scam incidental to their way of life.
stupid, dumb people, easier target. Who can blame the scammers? :D
For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.
What your telling me the EYE R S (they actually spelled it like that) doesn’t want me to give them $10,000 in Apple gift cards? Also I’m not American but who’s counting?
I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.
Non paywall linky:
Ya because they already know that they’re stupid.
Good choice, most are dumb as fuck. If I were evil I would absolutely grift them. They make it so easy!
They’re already being grifted, they have already passed the first filter.
People sometimes wonder why scam emails and phone calls are so obvious, with mis-spellings, bad grammar and poor English. The thing is that they do this on purpose. Running a scam takes time and energy, you want to work marks that you know can be manipulated easily, and if someone can’t determine that an email from “micosaft.pAypal-Customre-Sercicve.com” isn’t legit, they’re VERY likely to buy the story that they have to send money via Western Union to some random address in Kazakhstan to get their share of the king’s inheritance.
Being in maga is basically that. If you’re wearing a red hat and waving flags and spouting off FOX news lines to anyone who will listen, you’re a mark.
Makes sense. Thieves filtering for easy marks is probably older than writing.
Havent thought about the spelling mistakes being a filter, but now that you say it, it does makes sense.
Less money for Trump to scam from them… The Crypto Scammers are doing good for once.
People always act like crypto is useless and crypto scams are bad but…
Thoughts and prayers to the crypto scammers who have to interact with Trump supporters
You know how I know my maga relative lost everything he tried to “invest” in crypto? Because he suddenly STFU about it.
There was a while in 2019(I think) when all the office talk(software firm) was crypto then it just stopped it was glorious.
Anybody who is seriously in the software industry should have realized the crypto was a giant pyramid scheme that they would definitely at the bottom of.
And if one person tells me that it’s not fiat one more time they’re going to get a slap. Absolutely 100% is fiat shut up.
It’s not fiat.
Now give me a slap daddy
The masochist told the sadist, “Hurt me.”
The sadist said, “No.”
I actually get crypto as a concept but I really think their can only be one coin of any true value, and right now it’s Bitcoin. I think at some point something will come and knock it off the pedistool.
I’m not a get rich quick kinda guy so I never bothered with crypto and have only played around with a little bit of money trading stocks and treated it just like I do gambling (money I will lose, although I did make a bit of money back on GameStop lol).
knock it off the pedistool.
Pedi + stool…like a footstool?
No, pedi as in pediatrics. They’re talking about knocking it off of child poop.
The worst thing that ever happened to Crypto was the price rising so high. It made idiots billionaires overnight, and then these idiots thought that made them smart. Now they spend all their time going to Blockchain conferences and patting themselves on the back for being so revolutionary when in reality they just got lucky.
crypto was a giant pyramid scheme
Was? I don’t agree but I understand when people keep saying it’s a pyramid scheme. I don’t understand the past tense though.
Absolutely 100% is fiat
I think a key difference is that it’s maintained by an open network of computers rather than a state.
It’s sold as a money making scheme not as an alternative form of currency. If you just use it as an alternative form of currency to get around some kind of restriction then it’s fine but the crypto bros don’t use it like that. They think it’s going to manifest some kind of will for them. Of course they’re being tricked by other people who’ve already invested. Who themselves were tricked by other people who already invested. It’s literally a pyramid scheme. The only way anybody makes money is to get other saps involved.
It didn’t stop, sadly. Everyone just started talking about AI instead.
Yeah, times like 2019 are the best times to buy actually.
When crypto is up, the hype gets out of control and fools rush in to buy. The best time to buy is when crypto is “dead” once again.
(On the other hand bitcoin and proof-of-work is already any obsolete technology… And almost all NFTs are trash… So stick with ETH or whatever instead.)
Why make it hard on yourself when idiots self-select into an easy target audience?
I work in the anti-crypto scam industry. I applaud their efforts. Ethical fuckery.
That’s… an industry?
That’s an industry now? What do you guys do?
Quite a lot, actually. This is really a summation and not comprehensive.
- Evaluate an environment after incident:
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- looking for IOCs, determine spread
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- Determine backup status and restore if possible
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- Return environment to healthy state (AD restore, replication, networking, etc.,)
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- Lockdown of security holes
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- Advise on best practices going forward
- Decrypt environment if client pays ransom
etc., etc.
Depending on the complexity of the environment, this can take a lot of time and effort: much bigger than most internal teams are capable of doing. A client I had in Feb-Mar lasted a total of 3200 hours of work between 12 people on my team across 34 locations to unfuck the situation.
And donate to a left leaning charity? Chaotic good
Nah, just targeting the low hanging fruit in a get rich quick scheme. I’m not crying though.
I can’t even blame them.
I mean, how do you not fish that pool?
It’s all going to scammers anyway
*phish
*ghoti
no i hate them
Morals unfortunately.
Trump supports aren’t real people. Their sentience has been classified as below that of plants. Morals don’t apply.
I’m not going to say they’re not real or not sentient. But I will absolutely say that they are selfish. They lack the empathy required to understand how things will affect others. They lack the willingness to sacrifice for the greater good. They lack the humility required to understand that they could be wrong, and the critical reasoning required to change their views in the face of new evidence.
Almost every conservative I’ve ever met is either extremely rich or lives in microcosm. Hell, I’ve got extended family that have never travelled outside of their hometown and anything foreign or different to them is either ridiculed or shunned.
They want a social hierarchy, and they want their place in it preserved. God forbid people get equitable standing.
That goes for both…
The moral thing to do is disarm them of their money to stop it going towards Trump/etc.
It’s not immoral to truthfully tell someone they are donating to stop election fraud.
I ask myself this every day. Why not just sell some MAGA Jesus trinkets?
When I am feeling more altruistic than greedy, why not toss up a bunch of “PATRIOTS THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR HELP TO FIGHT ELECTION FRAUD” and then just donate all the proceeds to campaigns for people against insurrection and fake electors. There’s no lie or fraud on that, just exploiting the bias of delusional clowns. I guess “patriots” is a lie, that’s about it.
This is brilliant. Someone absolutely needs to do this.
Yup.
How tragic.
Fuckem.
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