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Tangentially, I haven't received a Pig Butchering opening text ("hey") in quite a while. A quick scan through my Spam & Blocked doesn't show much either, just a lot of political spam. Did something happen to improve the situation, or am I just lucky?
“We were being spammed relentlessly by these scam posts from compromised or purchased [Discord] accounts,” Thereallo said. “I got frustrated with just banning and deleting, so I started to investigate the infrastructure behind the scam messages. This is not a one-off site, it’s a scalable criminal enterprise with a clear playbook, technical fingerprints, and financial infrastructure.” This quote does not read like so…
17 year olds come in many flavors.
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If you thought you had won thousands of dollars you would likely be tempted to pay a hundred to get that out.
Well there's the problem, who honestly thinks they won thousands of dollars from an ad?
A random website asks me to give them my cryptocurrency, and then they refuse to return it? Why, I thought I had seen the most shocking thing on earth, but this takes the cake!
I don't understand who keeps falling for this stuff. The victims are not all 90 year old grannies suffering from cognitive decline.
Not online gaming. Online gambling.
This (i.e., gambling specifically) is a very common definition of the word "gaming". Certainly that predates online video games, obviously.
Tangentially, I haven't received a Pig Butchering opening text ("hey") in quite a while. A quick scan through my Spam & Blocked doesn't show much either, just a lot of political spam. Did something happen to improve the situation, or am I just lucky?
I get between 5-10 per day, so I’d say you’re just lucky.
> the gaming site will reject the request and prompt the user to make a “verification deposit” of cryptocurrency — typically around $100 — before any money can be distributed This is called "advance fee" scam. It is hundreds of years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam
A random website asks me to give them my cryptocurrency, and then they refuse to return it? Why, I thought I had seen the most shocking thing on earth, but this takes the cake!
I don't understand who keeps falling for this stuff. The victims are not all 90 year old grannies suffering from cognitive decline.
I assume that the "people who fall for this stuff" are "people like me". Even the best among us are only statistically less likely to get snookered, not immune.
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Well there's the problem, who honestly thinks they won thousands of dollars from an ad?
Sadly, I have a family member who is susceptible to these types of scams. They’ve been duped too many times to count. They’re overly eager to believe they’re exceptional and that good fortune is due them. No amount of explaining has had any impact on their beliefs for the past fifteen years. It’s heart-wrenching.
But how does one get scammed over and over, having seen it before and knowing what the playbook looks like?
A random website asks me to give them my cryptocurrency, and then they refuse to return it? Why, I thought I had seen the most shocking thing on earth, but this takes the cake!
I don't understand who keeps falling for this stuff. The victims are not all 90 year old grannies suffering from cognitive decline.