The idea of the significant percent of those losing all their money warms my black heart cockles. The scammers getting rich is bad though. How do I balance my attitude to this?
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I thought these scammers did really bad last time they did this and basically no one bit
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Your thinking the twitter hack where they got Obama and Bill Gates accounts to post a similar scam. They made like $200,000 which doesnt seem like a ton but goes a long way in North Korea
Also 200k in 2009 BTC is worth $1.2mil today fyi
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Weren't the hackers like kids or something, I vaguely remember most of them being a teenagers and they used basic phising tactics to do it.
yeah turns out it was, so that would explain why they were r-slurred once they got in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking
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Imagine the chaos you could reap with the exploit that gave those hackers the ability to post from any Twitter account. Heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, celebrities...so much potential and it was thrown away on a fricking lame-butt crypto scam. You could've sold that exploit to somebody who knew what they could really do with it for more than 200 grand.
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It wasn't even a crypto scam to begin with, it was some dudes who wanted some of the really short 3-letter usernames that were locked into long-dead accounts. Once they social-engineered some braindead twitter employee to give them admin powers they thought to make some money from it and shat out a minimum-effort crypto scam before leaving.
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wasn't an exploit
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Its not north korea anymore
Its border lands of burma(myamar) there is rebel group who manufacture speed and fund themselves with internet scams. They dont even sell most of that speed. They use it themselves.
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You would have to be naive to the point of mental illness to fall for something like this.
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Or senile.
That being said, I've seen HNers saying they sent money to a scam "to see what happens".
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I heard two guys at work last year talking about how Elon would increase your investment ten fold if you were to invest $10k into some shit. The reason was that he wants to help Canadians because he's a "Canadian". !tradies are really fricking dumb.
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Elon Musk ones were obviously fake.
Its the Snoop Dogg and The Rock ones that tricked a TON of Africans.
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Bait idea: post it to enough musk spam (or whatever it's called) pretending to be mad at musk for scamming people.
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good bait idea
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I love that AI has allowed 20 year old EVE Online scams to make it into the real world
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This hit Linus tech tips before, honestly an interesting attack vector.
The attack uses your session token from your browser so it sidesteps needing to authenticate anything 
(2FA doesn't matter 
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!codecels
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This is why you don't save cookies, etc. Or rather, delete them when you close the browser. Kind of aids though
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Why are security people like "yeah just never use computers in any way that makes sense- if you do it's actually your fault you got pwned"
Its like that game dev YouTuber who said to "never use any accounts on a network you don't control- including cell networks" - I guess you're never supposed to google a nearby gyro shop or check your email while out and about
!nooticers !schizos
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maybe computers just aren't that safe
they're safe, but maybe not safe enough to have your whole life inside it
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Because all the companies who have made a business out of building convenient cowtools also make a business out of fricking you in the butt with these same cowtools.
I don't want to have to frick with my javascript whitelists, and the fricking cookies whenever I have to re-login every time I open my browser, and the fricking login workflow requires I enter a code I got through a text message and a code I got through email, and I still can't connect because my IP isn't the same as the one I used to register but that's the only way those fricking pieces of shit r-slurs have made it possible to use their websites and applications.
I don't advocate people I know do this, but I acknowledge they're getting fricked in the butt whereas my butthole is mostly pristine, untouched by Bill Gates and his henchmen.
IS YOURS?!!
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Deleting cookies when you close the browser isn't that bad. You do have to actually use 2fa for each browser session, but that is the point lol.
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Apparently they hacked a somewhat popular youtube channel (RodeoReed, it still displays its name in some places) and renamed it to "Tesla".
It's stupid that the checkmark wasn't automatically removed when the channel was renamed and all its videos deleted.
I was really confused why the channel's page shows videos from the real Tesla channel. It seems they're playlists, I think they should be marked more clearly.
(The channel was banned just after I took the screenshot)
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lmao he even talks like a sexy Indian dude here.
AI videos always have weird mouth movements.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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There were multiple channels doing it earlier. Bros got hacked.
Rip to RodeoReed.
and this random gameboy nostalgia channel
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!accelerationists
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Most of the viewers are fake thankfully. Check
the crypto 
addresses.
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it's being run by elon himself!!
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Hello sars please redeem crypto
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i don't think it's fake. i sent him some money. he said he was backed up and was gonna send mine shortly.
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I was talking to my dad last night about the Trump speech. He said it's like when he was in the army where he suddenly realized that like 1/3 of people in the country are actually r-slurred.
It's much in line with his observation about modern movies that the only time he'd been around adults who still read comic books was in the army and it was only guys who were literally r-slurred.
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Yeah but remember there's a standardized test cutoff for r-slurs in the military. The bottom half of the bell curve doesn't make it in, along with spergs, malingerers and so on.
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He was there in the "McNamara's Morons" era. Which he didn't even find out about until recently, but it explained a heck of a lot about some of the guys he was in with.
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McNamara's Chads, you mean:
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How do r-slurs fall for this scam yet still have the ability to obtain bitcoin?
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Buying BTC is super easy these days, I've seen Bitcoin ATMs
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Oh it's been awound fworewer I think in 2020 I was getting nyon stwop cwommerciwl fwom "musk" on YwouTube
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Aww down. Would have liked to see a few mins of it.
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It was an about 10 minute long looped video delivered as a live stream (weirdly, apparently using the new youtube option forbidding you from pausing/timescrolling it?) of AI-altered Musk telling you to scan the QR code and put your crypto in it. The text was slightly above sexy Indian dude tier, the rendering was mid, no visible artifacts but oftentimes his mouth would desync, plus weird eyes, idk, I clocked it as an AI within five seconds.
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It's viewbotted, nothing of particular interest
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This reminds me decades back on Eve Online scammers at the main market hub would spam an ad how if you send them some ingame money they'll send you double back.
You think it was basic but they had elaborate profiles set up and were persistent and the idea was the baited would send some money as a 'test' and of course would get double, then falling for greed they actually try with a higher amount and the scammer of course will pocket it.
Im not surprised crypto bros would be the same mental caliber to fall for it.
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This happens all the time
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