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The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

#31

> The next day she sends me a message: "Hi, how are you? I saw your profile and I liked you." So I looked at her profile and, I mean, she was really hot If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.

Sure, so let's scam him. Idiots exist so we can explore them. The world is a place for the smart guys. We just have to hope there isn't someone smarter than us out there.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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post #31

> The next day she sends me a message: "Hi, how are you? I saw your profile and I liked you." So I looked at her profile and, I mean, she was really hot If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.

Sure, so let's scam him. Idiots exist so we can explore them. The world is a place for the smart guys. We just have to hope there isn't someone smarter than us out there.

Our AI overlords are going to have a laugh scamming us

... creating a 20 year long world of relationships, work and virtual reality is all it took to fool sickbeard. He really deserved it.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

#35

> The next day she sends me a message: "Hi, how are you? I saw your profile and I liked you." So I looked at her profile and, I mean, she was really hot If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.

> If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.

Oh you're so smart you have never been scammed in your life. Scammers pray on weakness, one day you'll be weak one way or another and it can happen to you. Don't be too quick insulting people of being "idiots". Only scammers themselves think that way.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly, any photo or video on digital media is just a tiny little step away from being irreversibly published to the internet. People should never make photos or videos of that kind if they don't want it to be public.

I never understood why people use their own genitalia. Just google for a plausible looking pic and send that. Even choose a nicer one if you like. By the time you are in the throws of passion I would think it unlikely someone would query it.

I would never request such explicit pictures from anyone but I would consider it a huge abuse of trust if I found out someone used wrong pictures claiming they're theirs, and that would be the end of that relationship.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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post #17

>Intelligent, articulate, and technologically adept, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that in a place with more opportunities a young man of Omar's talents could find a legitimate way to earn his $500 a day. Pretty ridiculous statement there. Not many places on earth can a person earn that for simply being smart.

Presumably that's why it says "in a place with more opportunities"....

It could be a fictional place, they have plenty of opportunities.

I mean, this simple scam does not show much of a person. 1. You can use facebook 2. You know a weak spot in men that everyone knows about, and in countries that are more developed laws prevent companies to abuse men. 3. You know how to match when you type with a video recording that you are showing a person/victim.

Edit: on a social engineering level this doesn't score that high.

And I'm not going to list the negatives that this shows right now.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

#38
There are much more sophisticated versions of this where the girls are real and they embroil men in months long relationships and gather much more...ahem...extensive material. They also seek out high value targets, not necessarily millionaires but people in a high middle-income bracket.

The case that I am personally aware of the scammers were based in Ukraine and despite the person being quite cool headed about it, it did cost him severely.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

#39
There is a similar scam in the US, but it collects differently. After tricking the mark into interacting with the "beautiful girl", the scammer contacts the mark claiming to be her father (or sometimes a different role) and saying that the girl is under 18, and to pay a ransom or be reported to the police for sex crimes. This scam is so common that it is a "sticky thread" for Reddit's /r/legaladvice .

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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post #35

> The next day she sends me a message: "Hi, how are you? I saw your profile and I liked you." So I looked at her profile and, I mean, she was really hot If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot.

> If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot. Oh you're so smart you have never been scammed in your life. Scammers pray on weakness, one day you'll be weak one way or another and it can happen to you. Don't be too quick insulting people of being "idiots". Only scammers themselves think that way.

Samir receives a phone call from an unknown woman. The woman sounds really hot and sounds like she likes him. Samir arranges to meet the woman at his home, only to find it's actually a man. Samir is subsequently tied up and robbed of all his money and belongings.

Is Samir an idiot (Y/N)?:

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