After Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency, the operators of a host of fraudulent websites have sought to hustle his supporters.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Is there really a difference if the money goes to crypto guys or some GOP PAC? They are both scammers from the word go.

    And as scammers prefer to target the most gullible idiots, they already have a perfect target group for their “business” with the MAGA brains.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It’s not the onion. But now the whole world is the Onion.

    I can think of no better irony at this point than The Onion switching directions and becoming a real news outlet.

    And future generations wokld look at their archived 80s/90s stories, and think they were real.

    And thus the cycle begins anew.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    But see, the truly smart scammer would have a potentially decent coin and name it maga-coin. They’re looking for anything except government currency…the super scam, or is it?

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’ll have you know those NFTs were worth millions!!! For like 2 seconds when people paid money for NFTs still

  • catalog3115@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don’t understand what’s going on.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It’s a plus if trump’s supporters are scammed before he can fleece them, let the convicted felons well dry up while other scammers get rich.

  • 242@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The worlds tiniest violin, playing a medley of the worlds saddest songs.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Not sure whether “let them fight” or “spidermen pointing” meme is more appropriate

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      5 months ago

      For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        5 months ago

        What your telling me the EYE R S (they actually spelled it like that) doesn’t want me to give them $10,000 in Apple gift cards? Also I’m not American but who’s counting?

        • yemmly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    You know how I know my maga relative lost everything he tried to “invest” in crypto? Because he suddenly STFU about it.

    • Zannsolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      There was a while in 2019(I think) when all the office talk(software firm) was crypto then it just stopped it was glorious.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Anybody who is seriously in the software industry should have realized the crypto was a giant pyramid scheme that they would definitely at the bottom of.

        And if one person tells me that it’s not fiat one more time they’re going to get a slap. Absolutely 100% is fiat shut up.

        • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          5 months ago

          crypto was a giant pyramid scheme

          Was? I don’t agree but I understand when people keep saying it’s a pyramid scheme. I don’t understand the past tense though.

          Absolutely 100% is fiat

          I think a key difference is that it’s maintained by an open network of computers rather than a state.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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            5 months ago

            It’s sold as a money making scheme not as an alternative form of currency. If you just use it as an alternative form of currency to get around some kind of restriction then it’s fine but the crypto bros don’t use it like that. They think it’s going to manifest some kind of will for them. Of course they’re being tricked by other people who’ve already invested. Who themselves were tricked by other people who already invested. It’s literally a pyramid scheme. The only way anybody makes money is to get other saps involved.

        • Zannsolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I actually get crypto as a concept but I really think their can only be one coin of any true value, and right now it’s Bitcoin. I think at some point something will come and knock it off the pedistool.

          I’m not a get rich quick kinda guy so I never bothered with crypto and have only played around with a little bit of money trading stocks and treated it just like I do gambling (money I will lose, although I did make a bit of money back on GameStop lol).

          • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            The worst thing that ever happened to Crypto was the price rising so high. It made idiots billionaires overnight, and then these idiots thought that made them smart. Now they spend all their time going to Blockchain conferences and patting themselves on the back for being so revolutionary when in reality they just got lucky.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, times like 2019 are the best times to buy actually.

        When crypto is up, the hype gets out of control and fools rush in to buy. The best time to buy is when crypto is “dead” once again.

        (On the other hand bitcoin and proof-of-work is already any obsolete technology… And almost all NFTs are trash… So stick with ETH or whatever instead.)