61–70 of 84 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, the specific social media network you work at would skew your perspective. I would bet money that romance scam victims are overwhelmingly men on TikTok but overwhelmingly women on Facebook.
Probably not, ticktock isn't male dominated. Twitter and Reddit however, I could see that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep my mom got caught on one of these - paying to "save a vulnerable puppy" only for the dog to "have a medical crises during transport", etc. If you have a loved one who is vulnerable: + Make it clear there is no shame in falling victim or seeking help + Teach them to "hang up and call back" anytime someone calls them and asks for money or passwords, personal data, etc. (This just saved her from a bank card scam) Cu…
or vote for a bloody tytant who promises to lay the torch to a world order that seems unwilling and unable to do anything against this lawlessness? At some point in the decline still being libertarian is like handing out fliers for dictators.
Long story short: After some time the woman suggested to try out some shady crypto trading website with a small amount which indeed made me about 50$ profit and everything could be successfully cashed out. In the next phase she asked me to repeat the same with at least 5k to make 100% profit.
Luckily all my alarm bells rang and I called it quits. However I can see how somebody less critical could fall for this. We need systems in place to prevent these schemes from succeeding.
Recently I joined Tinder and Bumble and got more matches with scammers than with real people. I was not aware of pig butchering scams until I got curious about a young crypto-loving woman who helpfully taught me how buying and trading crypto works. Being inexperienced with crypto I just wanted to learn about the basics how to get started. Long story short: After some time the woman suggested to try out some shady cry…
Your alarm bells didn’t ring here?
This was the topic of an amazing podcast Scam Inc from the Economist https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc that I finished last week. It's subscriber only but absolutely worth it. Key points are: "Pig butchering" scams were developed and mastered by Chinese organized crime targeting chinese citizens first, before going worldwide. The crime is industrialized with call centers with thousands of people worki…
Yep my mom got caught on one of these - paying to "save a vulnerable puppy" only for the dog to "have a medical crises during transport", etc. If you have a loved one who is vulnerable: + Make it clear there is no shame in falling victim or seeking help + Teach them to "hang up and call back" anytime someone calls them and asks for money or passwords, personal data, etc. (This just saved her from a bank card scam) Cu…
Recently I joined Tinder and Bumble and got more matches with scammers than with real people. I was not aware of pig butchering scams until I got curious about a young crypto-loving woman who helpfully taught me how buying and trading crypto works. Being inexperienced with crypto I just wanted to learn about the basics how to get started. Long story short: After some time the woman suggested to try out some shady cry…
> young crypto-loving woman Your alarm bells didn’t ring here?
Recently I joined Tinder and Bumble and got more matches with scammers than with real people. I was not aware of pig butchering scams until I got curious about a young crypto-loving woman who helpfully taught me how buying and trading crypto works. Being inexperienced with crypto I just wanted to learn about the basics how to get started. Long story short: After some time the woman suggested to try out some shady cry…
This was the topic of an amazing podcast Scam Inc from the Economist https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc that I finished last week. It's subscriber only but absolutely worth it. Key points are: "Pig butchering" scams were developed and mastered by Chinese organized crime targeting chinese citizens first, before going worldwide. The crime is industrialized with call centers with thousands of people worki…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Source? A lot of the investigative reporting I've seen covers women targets. Maybe they just think women make better stories, but women do spend more time on dating apps than men. Women participate differently, but they definitely participate, and women are extremely vulnerable to emotional exploitation.
Women absolutely make better stories. I saw a crypto scam article with a fairly attractive girl who *could* of probably meet someone in real life. Instead she let a crypto scammer take her for like 300k. Her dad was scammed too and invested another 200k. The entire story was shaped to make her look like a victim who could have never just said, wait you want me to put $50,000 into a random account and I've never met y…
Not just the money part, but the whole online-only "long distance relationship" thing. Why would you spend hours investing your time in someone if there's no immediate plan for it to turn physical (doesn't even have to be sexual)?
It's a thing I see redditors talking about like it's normal or something