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The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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> If that's all it took, Samir is an idiot. Oh you're so smart you have never been scammed in your life. Scammers pray on weakness, one day you'll be weak one way or another and it can happen to you. Don't be too quick insulting people of being "idiots". Only scammers themselves think that way.

I've never been successfully scammed.

Cool. Maybe you can pivot some of that success towards helping other people who aren't so fortunate as you.

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I spent six weeks in Marrakech over the summer. The attitude among the locals is basically this: it you're a Muslim, you're "one of them" so you don't get scammed. If you're not a Muslim, you're fair game for everyone from small boys on the street to shop owners to obvious thugs to sex scams. This is especially the case if you're a non-Muslim woman. I can't count the number of times men made crude comments to my gf.…

When you say "sexually assault" are you referring to them grabbing her behind or something else? The term is very broadly used.

They're very touchy to start with. To take one example, I was looking at a leather bag (tip: never buy leather in Marrakech unless you like the smell of bird shit). The shopkeeper maneuvered us so we were facing each other, and then shoved his hand down the back of her jeans (I don't want to be more graphic) where I couldn't see what was happening, chatting away to me all the time.

She looked extremely uncomfortable and asked to leave the store, so we did. It's an awkward situation because when you're in the Medina you're surrounded by dozens of young guys who are related to the shopkeeper and you can't really kick up a stink about it.

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Samir is your grandpa who is showing signs of Alzheimer's. You are tied up in a legal battle to take custody of him. He's been roughed up and now fears for his life. Did your grandpa deserve that (Y/N)?

Samir is 21 years old and does not have Alzheimer's. People need to take some personal responsibility for their own ineptitude. The only way we learn as humans is from our experiences (good and bad).

Perhaps murder victims should take more responsibility for themselves and not get murdered. I'm being 100% sarcastic.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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If a random girl asks you to show her your penis, first make sure you are doing it in person and she does not have any devices on her. How can people in this century not know that your stream (no pun intended) can be recorded.

Many older people are horny but truly clueless about technology....The body is willing but the mind is weak.

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Samir is 21 years old and does not have Alzheimer's. People need to take some personal responsibility for their own ineptitude. The only way we learn as humans is from our experiences (good and bad).

Perhaps murder victims should take more responsibility for themselves and not get murdered. I'm being 100% sarcastic.

Perhaps murder victims that bought knives and pointed them at themselves and invited strangers to push, should take more responsibility. Also sarcastic.

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Frankly, any photo or video on digital media is just a tiny little step away from being irreversibly published to the internet. People should never make photos or videos of that kind if they don't want it to be public.

I'm sort of surprised Google and Apple don't have a "private mode" camera option. Some way to mark a photo or the next X minutes, and those photos won't show up in the default camera roll. Maybe they trigger a second dialog before sharing. Just to try to minimise accidents.

Jpegs and most video formats aren't executable

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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Samir is 21 years old and does not have Alzheimer's. People need to take some personal responsibility for their own ineptitude. The only way we learn as humans is from our experiences (good and bad).

Perhaps murder victims should take more responsibility for themselves and not get murdered. I'm being 100% sarcastic.

There's nothing wrong with pointing out behaviors that would to a result like that.. like being a drug dealer.

Re: The Skype sex scam – a fortune built on shame

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Is this illegal? I guess it's a form of blackmail (thus illegal) right?

Yes. And there's a good chance that now that it's in international media and the scope is so large the king will catch wind of it and the repercussions for these guys will not be good. In Nigeria you might get away with stuff like this. But Morocco is besides an Islamic country also one with ambitions, good ties to Europe and increasingly modern infrastructure (as evidenced by their Internet racket). If I were them a…

Nobody cares.... He'll even scammer in the USA are pretty brazen.

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I never understood why people use their own genitalia. Just google for a plausible looking pic and send that. Even choose a nicer one if you like. By the time you are in the throws of passion I would think it unlikely someone would query it.

I would never request such explicit pictures from anyone but I would consider it a huge abuse of trust if I found out someone used wrong pictures claiming they're theirs, and that would be the end of that relationship.

Seriously? You'd be like "Oh my god! Your [boobs|penis|whatever] look nothing like the picture you sent me! We're over!!"

I can't honestly think I'd care.

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