it’s all Facebook and phone from what I’ve observed. but it’s the same shit. and the schemes are not complicated
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 days agoKind of reminds me of a story my brother told of some country in Africa. He was friendly with some kids on the street and showed them how to set up an email address. So one day they came excitedly up to him and told him that they met someone and that they would be rich. Of course he immediately clocked the familiar scam.
He explained the whole situation by telling them that the internet was like the street. Don’t trust anyone. That was an analogy they got pretty quickly.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Yeah, I don’t understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I’d tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.
easily3667@lemmus.org 6 days ago
We’re still great apes
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Well, you see, according to some mythology, the internet is the place of all ideas; thus it is compared to Platon’s notion of “heaven”.
Now, people have been told for generations that “heaven is a good place”, and since the internet approximates heaven, people trust it way too much.