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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Elon Musk ones were obviously fake.
Its the Snoop Dogg and The Rock ones that tricked a TON of Africans.
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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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