To be fair, this is all social media these days. Especially the ads. I use an adblock (ofc), but some of my friends and family who don’t are constantly getting baited.
Apart from lemmy, so far.
Damn good point. Sometimes forget this is a form of social media too.
“you get what you fucking deserve.”
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I mean, it is a goldmine of gullible people after all…
Can you blame the scammers? Like teasing a dog with a steak
I’m just surprised they have large amounts of money to be swindled out of.
I mean that’s why the owner set it up in the first place
Well, wouldn’t you target those fucktards if you were looking to make a quick buck?
It’s not just his platform. Watch the dime-store networks that cover him. OANN, Real America, or whatever the fuck they’re called. They’ll show footage of Trump rallies right next to ads for Ivermectin, clearly obvious crypto scams, and ads you’d expect to see on some shady porn or torrent site.
Which isn’t a surprise. Trump has corralled the dumb and gullible and made it nice and easy for scammers to target en masse.
And the biggest scammer on that platform…the orange turn himself
Wasn’t that the whole point of it in the first place?
Plot twist: it’s just one user and he’s ripping them off by asking for donations to his campaign
Not much of a twist though. Those of us with more than 2 brain cells saw it coming a mile off
Some of us did from approx. 9000mi away.
No, there is that, but this is not all that organized. It’s easy to say ha ha, boomers dumb, but it’s wild to think of how crypto schemes have shifted potentially billions of imaginary wealth into the real pockets of randos
Oh. I know it’s not just that, I was just trying to make a joke
Self selecting suckers…
Am pretty sure Trump is taking a cut from the scams as well… Trumps grift has no limits
Yeah I imagine it’s like an MLM / pyramid scheme. It all trickles up. And the actual “reportable” fraud occurs at a very low level that the Trump campaign cannot easily be connected to.
A fool and his money.
I’m not surprised.
Have you seen the scammers on other social media platforms? MLM schemes, love scams, charging a fuck-to of money to teach people how to write entry letters to casino sweepstakes for “free” online casino coins.
I can only imagine what a place that starts with gathering together people that view life as a zero-sum game develops for scamming and ripping people off.
