Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse

whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Spezi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Creating a fake relationship and then extracting money from people for example by getting them to invest money into fake crypto trading places.

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    On I get that. Are ppl that dumb?

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    • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, its mostly older people that are alone that fall for this type of scam.

      My sister-in-law works for a bank and she had a 70yo customer that sent multiple thousands of euros to a guy she has never met. They told her its a scam, but she insisted to send the money anyways. Her family had to watch her sending away all of her life savings.

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      • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, its mostly older people that are alone that fall for this type of scam.

        I’d wager that’s not the most represented demographic in the fediverse… and neckbeards tend to know better.

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      • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No I’m doesn’t! 😟

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. People get scammed for millions this way.

      A newer scam does an end-around the normal sniff tests. They don’t ask you to give htem money, they strike up a pretty genuine friendship, they have details that check out, so it feels like you’ve just made an actual friend. They’ll talk to you for months. And then they’ll mention that they’ve been making a lot of money on this cool new investment. Well you want to make a lot of money on an investment too, so you ask how, and they tell you how to download an app from the app store, which is supposed to be a safe place, and walk you through “investing” money in some crypto or whatever. Which of course is the payout.

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      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Lol I had one of these from a wrong number. I ended up pissing them off and they stopped talking to me because before they could even get into the scam I had a long winded rant with them about crypto being monstrously useless and I’d never in a million years invest in magic beans.

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