EternityWhy are scammers so extra?
kitonthenetSame reason they do Nigerian prince scams still: it’s so ridiculous no one will believe it except the people you absolutely 100% can get a score off of, so you can send these to a million people easily and they self select into the “easy to scam” group and you only work that one. You automate the cheap part of the process (initiating the scam) while making the expensive part (chatting with the mark) more productive
kkard2i never thought about that, it makes a lot of sense
This technique is used elsewhere too, it’s an extremely effective recruiting tool, as long as you’re trying to recruit fools. And fools make a great easy to manipulate army of voters and racists etc that can be useful to those trying to gain or maintain power.
Think about how dumb you have to be to fall for…
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Kids having Post-birth abortions in California!
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Litter boxes in classrooms
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Fire season is due to Jewish space lasers