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Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by rasz » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 12:20 AM UTC

MiroF wrote: post #89

wool_gather wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not being stupid is no defense against being conned. On the contrary, a truly stupid mark isn't going to understand the scheme; an intelligent person will immediately see the way they stand to benefit. It's the willingness to cheat that gets you in trouble. Check out The Big Con by David Maurer

You need to be not stupid stupid, but reading these articles it is pretty clear that the marks are not "smart" if they're investing in something they don't understand.

Tell that to all the College professors getting 419ed, including at least two Harvard ones.

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by elliekelly » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 12:40 AM UTC

bitcurious wrote: post #65

>Even the most obscure entry or innocuous comment on a forum is usually saved somewhere, and with enough digging can be found. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this. That's a very interesting throwaway line; anyone know what those products are?

For reddit there’s the Pushshift API[1] that archives posts & comments at or around the time of submission.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/bcxguf/new_to_pu...

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by arcticbull » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 1:06 AM UTC

TomMarius wrote: post #125

floren wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much all cryptocurrencies depend on the promise that early adopters will get in cheap and make a ton of money once it takes off. Get in quick, don't be a sucker! FooCoin is going up uP UP! Now that you're in, convince your friends to buy FooCoin too, and talk it up online--that way demand will increase!

I don't think this is the premise of Bitcoin. This is what some people want it to be or want to make it seem like it is, though, but not really.

As I learned here recently the premise may well have been to fund international arms trafficking.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-inte...

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by sokoloff » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 1:35 AM UTC

orf wrote: post #117

> "I did the calculation how many coins we needed to become the richest person on the planet," Igor says. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to €100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' It's mathematic. It's easy as that." There is an argument to be made here that someone who is that irresponsible, or frankly stupid, has only themselves to…

My favorite part of that is, even if that happened, Bill Gates would still be ~10x richer...

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by sokoloff » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 1:37 AM UTC

hatmatrix wrote: post #139

Why can't they subpoena the lawyer husband? Presumably he knows her whereabouts because of their baby.

In the US spouses cannot be compelled to testify about/against the other. I assume this would include a location question. Not sure of laws elsewhere.

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 1:43 AM UTC

LegitShady wrote: post #38

Lucadg wrote: post #32

a week ago I passed in front the One Coin shop in Sofia. It was open. I was surprised as It had been closed for a long time. I had listened to the BBC podcast and was curious so I tried to enter. It was locked and a lady came to open. There were a couple of people, maybe customers. There were books, CDs and other material. I stayed two minutes and head to the exit. The door was locked and the lady came to open. That'…

this is how people die in fires, fyi.

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Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by retrac » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 1:46 AM UTC

osrec wrote: post #33

anm89 wrote: post #4

Everything else aside, this article has an unbelievable amount of typos for a mainstream publication

Seems to be common with BBC articles lately. I read their tennis pages often, and it amazes me how often they get the winner of a match wrong! It's almost as if the reviewer has no context when checking through the article.

All journalism seems to be suffering from this more. With the financial crunch the sector is facing, who can afford a copy editor?

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by wil421 » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 3:34 AM UTC

orf wrote: post #124

johnpowell wrote: post #107

I torrent a lot of TV shows. And American Greed popped up a lot. I always dismissed the show until they they recently did a ep on the Fyre festival. I consume every bit of media about the Fyre festival. I Watched the ep about it. Then I saw that American greed is actually one of the best shows on TV. So I set Sonarr to grab every episode. It grabbed 114 of them. And I have now watched them all all. But 80% of the epi…

Is Sonarr good? I use plex and some manual steps, but it looks interesting from their website alone.

Absolutely. Automate TV downloads, pick the quality, pick the language if you want, and let it do its thing. If it’s not in your Usenet/Plex pipeline you need to add it.

There’s one for movies called Radarr and one for music called Lidarr. I’ve found them less useful and don’t use them but it’s worth a try.

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by wil421 » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 3:37 AM UTC

johnpowell wrote: post #107

I torrent a lot of TV shows. And American Greed popped up a lot. I always dismissed the show until they they recently did a ep on the Fyre festival. I consume every bit of media about the Fyre festival. I Watched the ep about it. Then I saw that American greed is actually one of the best shows on TV. So I set Sonarr to grab every episode. It grabbed 114 of them. And I have now watched them all all. But 80% of the epi…

American Greed is a good show. Most people just look rich and get other rich people to invest. A nice suit, car, and house can’t get you pretty far I guess...even if it’s just a house of cards.

Re: Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

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Post by blockchainbelvr » Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 3:59 AM UTC

The comments here are disgusting.

Lots of innocent people got scammed, and deserve sympathy, not ridicule.

And scams aside, I still believe cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is the future, and we are in a post-dotcom like lull in the space. 10 years from now, you'll all be kicking yourselves for not loading up on crypto at the bottom.