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in Italy, which is not the heart of tech bubbles, there have been reports (I got a call too!) of telemarketers cold calling people to invest in cryptocurrencies
by riffraff 9y ago
in Italy, which is not the heart of tech bubbles, there have been reports (I got a call too!) of telemarketers cold calling people to invest in cryptocurrencies.
This genuinely frightened me.
- danmaz74 9y agoI received one such call (in Italy)...
- notahacker 9y agoI've received a couple in the UK. Low end telemarketers (overseas, poor English, zero knowledge of their subject matter) and clearly originating from random dialling or a list of mobile numbers without names, so making traditional boiler room operations seem sophisticated.
- drusepth 9y agoI wonder at what point it becomes profitable to hire telemarketers to drive interest in a cryptocurrency you've bought into so you can pump and dump, especially if these telemarketers are coming from overseas where they're notoriously cheap.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoWatch the John Oliver segment on cryptocurrencies from this weekend. They have a promo video from a company that is literally advertising pump and dump schemes.
- wyager 9y agoThere’s almost certainly no actual cryptocurrency involved. This sounds like a generic money-wiring scam.
- eitland 9y agoSame in Norway. Last week "Åsted Norge" reported about it. The cases they told about were pure scams where the fraudsters stole the cryptocurrencies directly.