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Ken WhiteWell, I am a criminal defense attorney.
By the way, anyone who knows how fraudsters work is not surprised by this. “Reloading” — returning to the same victims to defraud them again — is very common. After all, once a population has self-selected as vulnerable, why not? Watch for people who got ripped off on Frye I to return to get ripped off again for Frye II.
In Search of a Better World@Popehat Once you've got a flock of sheep under control, you can shear them again and again and again. That is why they call it being fleeced.
2xfo
Lizard
If God didn't want 'em sheared,
John Minnihan@Popehat well the cheese sandwiches were really good, so
cawwwwwww@Popehat I can imagine them spinning this as a redemption story - "I learned from my mistakes, this one's for real" and whatnot. And ending about the same.
Mike Knell
SpicewallaFraudsters do curate "suckers lists" not unlike the way charities curate lists of people with a history of making charitable donations.
But repeating the exact same fraud with the exact same name is bold.
Grumble@Spicewalla @Popehat All competent salespeople maintain lists of customers. Doesn't matter what they are selling: legit product and services, or scams.
When salespeople change jobs, their contact list is as valuable as their personal skills.
Fuck Elon 
So true. The first warning people get (or should get) after being scammed is "beware of recovery scams" and yet...
Darrel PlantIt must have been successful. I heard they made several movies about it!
OK, off to get a drop of blood tested for diseases!
Julian Sanchez@Popehat i mean, this is true, but scam victims are also disproportionately elderly folks with memory & other cognitive problems. Obvious jokes aside, the target marks for Fyre may be a little more resistant to exactly the same scam under exactly the same brand name.
Cynthia Morse Linton@normative I find that to be ageist thinking. Until recently elderly were disproportionally scammed from ignorance and lack of sophistication. I’m 70 and I’ve been on the internet since the late 80s. But there are 40’s and below who still click every link and believe everything Fox News says and they aren’t all geriatric.
@lucywildboots It’s absolutely ageist. It’s also accurate.
Nick 'The Viking'Maybe it's like a parody thing so it'll be totally awesome?
jack the nonabrasive@Popehat This is why the Glengarry leads were the macguffin in Glengarry Glen Ross: prequalified vulnerable people.
🇨🇦 TRH 🇨🇦@Popehat I thought that farcetival had crashed and, ahem, burned, for good?
Matt Stocum@Popehat is "they really should have known better, I'd already defrauded them once," a viable fraud defense?
Waterluvian@Popehat “Frye” is a chip-truck-induced typo isn’t it?
Dammit it’s working. Now I want fries.
E.G. Phillips@waterluvian @Popehat Sounds like a potential rebranding with cross marketing potential
Mushifoot@Popehat Frye fest sounds like something I might go to.
BruceWouldn't comments like this scare him away from inviting you? I'm assuming that you offered yourself up as a defense attorney for the purpose of getting an invitation, right?
klausfiend has moved@Popehat as long as it leads to even more documentaries with scenes of shocked rich folks outraged at being forced to cosplay as residents of the Global South for a weekend, I am HERE for it.
Nick Messick@Popehat ripped off? People are only to feel ripped off if UN DOESN’T mount a humanitarian relief effort.
Living through a disaster (and putting it in the socials) is what everyone is going to be paying for.
Kevin Gamin@Popehat I think I just heard Netflix and Hulu squee with joy.
David H. McCoyThird time’s the charm.
PhoenixSerenity@Popehat Dealing with this right now. Caught between good causes & grifters! I got ostracized & targeted when I tried exposing grifters more than once.
FeralRobots@Popehat OK, wait, you mean that wasn't a joke?
...shit, I'm pretty cynical & I absolutely did not go there.
James Wells@Popehat
After the last two Fyre Festivals, I think you answer makes A LOT of sense.
After the last two Fyre Festivals, I think you answer makes A LOT of sense.
@Popehat quality burn, part 16
Packy Anderson
Jonathan Polley@Popehat It will be just as successful as the first one, I’m sure.
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎@Popehat Caption: screenshot of a tweet (from Billy McFarlane, but that’s unstated) beginning with a fire emoji, that says: Fyre Festival II is finally happening. Tell me why you should be invited. From April 9, 2023 with 3.1m views.
Shannon Vanshoon@Popehat I think somebody by law needs to post this, yes:
Realworldrj@Popehat poor Bahamas
Gojira1000@Popehat I would pay good money to get "Popehat at Fyre 2" live coverage
Dan@Popehat “lead attorney for the ‘Fyre Festival II: Electric Boogaloo’ resigned today after he spent his entire Per Diem budget for the month long festival on the festival’s Korean food truck on day one”.
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers@Popehat Aren't they a little late on April Fools?!
Dave3307 🥑@Popehat literally laughed out loud
Rhett Derrick@Popehat The Foundation for Yeeting Revelers Expendable-Income.
John Dahlquist@Popehat Wouldn't Fyre I have actually had to happen in order to refer to the new one as Fyre II?
Indigo@Popehat Wouldn't that just trigger crime fraud exceptions to attorney-client privilege if you were to get involved while the fraud is going on? 😜
SofaKingHigh@Popehat they could atleast go through the trouble of renaming the scam so people don’t associate it directly with the previous scam
JESSICA B@SofaKingHigh @Popehat why bother? Lol
CautionWIP 🎃+🇨🇦+🏳️🌈= 
@Popehat Apparently he's really enamored with prison food, and as usual can't manage to organize the catering himself..
obscurestar@Popehat I'm extremely gullible and have lots of money?
Also, I've never seen Daft Punk playing at the trash fence.
@Popehat "Tell me why you should be invited."
You mean, list every vile sin I've committed in this and any prior lives, such that I merit the most vile of punishments? No way, dude. Fifth Amendment FTW!
That Anonymous CowardI'm a sociopath who enjoys watching humans suffering from their own stupid choices.
Juan C. Fernandez
Christina Warren
gavinisdie 
@Popehat dumpsterfyre
Daniil Baturin@Popehat Is "Fyre Festival" still a valid trademark anywhere?
Would it be legal for someone to organize a genuine event by that name? ;)
Would it be legal for someone to organize a genuine event by that name? ;)
C.S.Strowbridge@Popehat Okay, I know this is off-topic, but...
3.1 million views and only ~5,000 interactions. Is this normal for Twitter?
CritteRo 🇪🇺@Popehat for the aftermath videos, like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8
The Failure of Fyre Festival
madame poolhair@Popehat I shouldn't be invited because I don't want to be lol 😂
Jeff and 838 others@Popehat Billy, motherfucker, the first one never happened
El Saltybananie@Popehat Can they call it "Fyre Festival II" when Fyre Festival I didn't really happen?
Sina K. Abraham@Popehat they hope to avoid criminal offense that’s why they won’t have you I’m sorry you gotta come up with something else haha