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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 152 points 1 year ago

You know how I know my maga relative lost everything he tried to "invest" in crypto? Because he suddenly STFU about it.

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

There was a while in 2019(I think) when all the office talk(software firm) was crypto then it just stopped it was glorious.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It didn't stop, sadly. Everyone just started talking about AI instead.

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 year ago

Why make it hard on yourself when idiots self-select into an easy target audience?

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course. Why wouldn't a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?

It's scamming on easy mode

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

More importantly than being gullible, they often have substantial money and property.

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[-] Censored@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Less money for Trump to scam from them... The Crypto Scammers are doing good for once.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

It's not the onion. But now the whole world is the Onion.

I can think of no better irony at this point than The Onion switching directions and becoming a real news outlet.

And future generations wokld look at their archived 80s/90s stories, and think they were real.

And thus the cycle begins anew.

[-] Wootz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's brilliant.

You know how once in a blue moon you look at news story that's sounds completely crazy and go "huh"? Like when buzzfeed suddenly started using all their clickbait money to fund good, legitimate journamism?

This would be that.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Or like when all the news outlets were reporting that the Queen had died. AND EVERYBODY BELIEVED THEM!!!

She's not dead. She's still out there. Roaming the streets. Seeking justice among a seedy criminal underbelly, seeking personial closure for the deaths of her parents in an alley when she was a child.

..........wait, I might be thinking of Ted Turner.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Good choice, most are dumb as fuck. If I were evil I would absolutely grift them. They make it so easy!

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 year ago

Ya because they already know that they're stupid.

[-] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

stupid, dumb people, easier target. Who can blame the scammers? :D

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[-] catalog3115@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don't understand what's going on.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

If you're gonna type out target, why the emoji?

[-] catalog3115@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

MAGA Supporters would be reading it 🤣

[-] Silentiea 15 points 1 year ago

What a weird ❓ way to use emoji 😁

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[-] 242@lemmy.cafe 42 points 1 year ago

The worlds tiniest violin, playing a medley of the worlds saddest songs.

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[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

And donate to a left leaning charity? Chaotic good

[-] 555@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Nah, just targeting the low hanging fruit in a get rich quick scheme. I’m not crying though.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

It's a plus if trump's supporters are scammed before he can fleece them, let the convicted felons well dry up while other scammers get rich.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Not sure whether "let them fight" or "spidermen pointing" meme is more appropriate

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Is there really a difference if the money goes to crypto guys or some GOP PAC? They are both scammers from the word go.

And as scammers prefer to target the most gullible idiots, they already have a perfect target group for their "business" with the MAGA brains.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The money going to crypto guys has less negative impact and might even help some 3rd world north Koreans actually afford food. Any money going to the GOP only brings pain and suffering.

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago
[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

But see, the truly smart scammer would have a potentially decent coin and name it maga-coin. They're looking for anything except government currency...the super scam, or is it?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Isn't that what those supporters are there for? .... to be scammed

[-] PineRune@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's just different scammers now.

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Grifters of all walks of life have long valued conservative orgs, because they are suckers, and a lot of them have done the hard work of contact lists.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Ah, Big Stupid enabling the Scammer Class: a tale as old as time.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Trump was anti-Bitcoin while president, when his opinion mattered. And now that it's taken off despite him, he's trying to promise crypto users what Biden has already delivered. The SEC just dropped its case against Ethereum.

These are the exact same people who keep leaving their coins on exchanges.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

And he certainly wasn't anti-crypto when it came to pushing his own lazy NFTs.

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[-] Censored@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
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[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I work in the anti-crypto scam industry. I applaud their efforts. Ethical fuckery.

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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Cultists are easy to swindle.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

People always act like crypto is useless and crypto scams are bad but...

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[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago

Huh, well, I'll allow it.

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They'll claim the Deep State got them

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Turns out they were part of the derp state all along

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