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How Pig Butchering scams work (2022)
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#23I've been recruiting pig butchers and trying to press gang them into assistive technology coding for open source, recruiting them into my own pre-released projects, where I am the only community member they can threaten. The goal is to help them learn to love Open source and helping others, like I do. Then I would help them adopt revolutionary open source projects - developing free services that can replace the need…
I don't see why something like this would work even in theory. They're scamming to make money, it doesn't sound like recruiting them to help with open-source projects aligns with that at all, there's no hook.
I think it's an interesting take around the scheme I've seen IRL: we have various religious missionaries around and some people figured out that they can be coaxed into performing free manual labour (i. e. gardening work) because they can write it off as a 'good deed' and with the hopes you'll listen to their spiel afterwards.
I could see it as a burnable source of labour, not as a means of pushing a values system though.
Re: How Pig Butchering scams work (2022)
#24You are perfectly safe to assume that no one will ever approach you with a proposal that is beneficial to you.