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My bet is she was a front for some Eastern EU or EEU mafia group and now rests in a concrete-filled barrel at the bottom of Black Sea, with all the money taking multiple round trips through off-shore banks, never to be found by their MLM "investors" again.
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Clicking around a bit, I ended up reading https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08570 . It's describing an apparently faster way to identify prime numbers. Looks pretty legit to me, but still, reading the website, there's something... not quite off , but still... quirky, in a way I can't put my finger on. :/ TL;DR, what do others think of this paper?
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/74614/what-is-the...
Followed that to attendee recordings of the talk, and was not disappointed.
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'…
Journalist Nikolai Stroyanov from Sofia's Kapitol (newspaper) took the following photos a few days ago, on Nov. 21, indicating what seemed to be a clearing out of the Onecoin offices: https://twitter.com/Svrakata/status/1197494888457293824
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> This just seems like speculation based on watching mafia movies. People get killed for far less. > The article speculates she's alive. And I'm speculating she isn't. > The Ignatov family seems involved in various frauds, so I wouldn't view her as an innocent woman who got in too deep. She knew what she as doing and has family connections. I never said she did not know what she was doing. > Also I am not sure what "…
> People get killed for far less. Sincerely though, if not pop culture, what is this prediction based on? What base rate information do you have about criminals who are extrajudicially executed? What information about who in the criminal underworld knows how much are you conditioning on in order to get a distribution that integrates out to >0.5 here, as opposed to >0.9, or Just based on what’s publicly accessible, it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=638_Jpp2Rq8 :D ... cringe-inducing to the point it could gag a maggot ...
If you are ready for some more cringe, take a look how the ghu-neh-ses block for blockchain v2 was "mined" live, instantly doubling the coin balance for several million members and raising the circulating supply of OneCoin from 2 billion to 120 billions, because that's how cryptos run in the Ponzi land: https://youtu.be/1x7gur0JgkY?t=378
I guess greed makes some people really stupid?
I can remember OneCoin back in the day. And I also remember that when visiting their website, my first though was "this must be a gigantic scam!" It was kinda obvious. Unbelievable that people fell for this. But like with all pyramid schemes or similar scams, they target a very specific sort of people.
What kind of people? Just gullible or something more specific?
This is the same issue for all other "scams", i. e. like some insurance-salespersons, which obviously sell overpriced or needless contracts, just to earn more money with their victims. Or car mechanics who tell the car owner the suspension arm needs to be replaced even if it's in perfect condition. It's always the same: some greedy, immoral people exploiting the inexperience or missing knowledge or other people.
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stupid + immoral. You need both to get scammed.
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
And if I can't understand how the other person benefits? I'm immediately suspicious.
Just out of curiosity: say you've recently stolen more than $1B from various people, some of whom might have a somewhat shady background - how would you disappear in this time where everything is electronically tracked, you have instagram, facebook, forums etc.?
If social media use is required, create new accounts.