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Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? I mean, "send us X and you'll get 2X in return" isn't too awfully different than those scams years ago for plans for a

Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? I mean, "send us X and you'll get 2X in return" isn't too awfully different than those scams years ago for plans for a perpetual motion machine or the secrets to a 300 mpg car engine.

kube-system 6y ago
I was thinking it sounds exactly like the Nigerian 419 scams.
som33 6y ago
>Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? Uhh the same people who fall for the scam that was steam, uplay, mmo's, etc... aka it's irrational to buy software you don't own or control. If anything the modern software landscape is an idiocracy. Windows 10 "requires internet" (wtf?) I mean come on, anything that "requires interent" is a giant red flag. The steam stats prove we live in an idiocracy. Don't think so? Silicion valley tech companies are over the moon that the public bought into mmo's/drm/f2p mobile gambling games en mass. They finally are going to close the PC as an open platform, which started with merely renaming PC RPG's in the 90's and calling them "MMO's" then they started applying that fake moniker to every game they wanted to client server to steal them from the public to deny ownership. Whole industry is looking to setup the internte (aka the world comptuer) to trap software between the public pc's and their servers, so we get incomplete software in the future "requiring login" to remote servers (aka stolen software as a service). https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_Vision_V2.pdf https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V... Steam software survey - windows 10 at 85% https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw... Windows 10 privacy invading, drm defective app model (uwp, encrypted vm's). Making preserving old software using UWP/encryption impossible (aka encrypted files). The average person in our society both working class and professional is dumb. I've talked to programmers who've bought overwatch or sent money to quake champions, not realizing that their mtx money told the industry to steal games and client server them. We used to get level editors in every AAA game in the 90's before the game industry and software industry discovered 70% of society is computer illiterate to an insane degree. The modern videogame and software landscape on the PC is an idiocracy, aka hardware dongled software by way of internet. So for people to fall for BTC scams on youtube when they fall for all kinds of "regular" corporate scams and are oblivious to the corruption of their own society for instance... is pretty par for the course. We live in a society of morons. See George carlin on the american dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
packet_nerd 6y ago
Ha, I remember one of my brothers and a bunch of people from my hometown got all into those perpetual motion machines. They bought the "plans" and went on and on about how revolutionary it was, what a good deal the few hundred dollars for the plans were, and how there's a global conspiracy by energy companies to stop this information from getting out. Despite trying and never quite getting it to work, I think my brother even today still believes in it. I guess the answer to your question would be "normal every day folks." But, still, how does the thinking that leads them to believe this stuff even actually work? I don't get it.
thrill 6y ago
People do. My brother's wife's sister's husband's father (yep) flew to Nigeria and gave them a suitcase full of money back in the day 20 years ago. He remains convinced that he will eventually get a huge return.

kube-system 6y ago

I was thinking it sounds exactly like the Nigerian 419 scams.

som33 6y ago

>Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? Uhh the same people who fall for the scam that was steam, uplay, mmo's, etc... aka it's irrational to buy software you don't own or control. If anything the modern software landscape is an idiocracy. Windows 10 "requires internet" (wtf?) I mean come on, anything that "requires interent" is a giant red flag. The steam stats prove we live in an idiocracy. Don't think so? Silicion valley tech companies are over the moon that the public bought into mmo's/drm/f2p mobile gambling games en mass. They finally are going to close the PC as an open platform, which started with merely renaming PC RPG's in the 90's and calling them "MMO's" then they started applying that fake moniker to every game they wanted to client server to steal them from the public to deny ownership. Whole industry is looking to setup the internte (aka the world comptuer) to trap software between the public pc's and their servers, so we get incomplete software in the future "requiring login" to remote servers (aka stolen software as a service). https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_Vision_V2.pdf https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V... Steam software survey - windows 10 at 85% https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw... Windows 10 privacy invading, drm defective app model (uwp, encrypted vm's). Making preserving old software using UWP/encryption impossible (aka encrypted files). The average person in our society both working class and professional is dumb. I've talked to programmers who've bought overwatch or sent money to quake champions, not realizing that their mtx money told the industry to steal games and client server them. We used to get level editors in every AAA game in the 90's before the game industry and software industry discovered 70% of society is computer illiterate to an insane degree. The modern videogame and software landscape on the PC is an idiocracy, aka hardware dongled software by way of internet. So for people to fall for BTC scams on youtube when they fall for all kinds of "regular" corporate scams and are oblivious to the corruption of their own society for instance... is pretty par for the course. We live in a society of morons. See George carlin on the american dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

packet_nerd 6y ago

Ha, I remember one of my brothers and a bunch of people from my hometown got all into those perpetual motion machines. They bought the "plans" and went on and on about how revolutionary it was, what a good deal the few hundred dollars for the plans were, and how there's a global conspiracy by energy companies to stop this information from getting out. Despite trying and never quite getting it to work, I think my brother even today still believes in it. I guess the answer to your question would be "normal every day folks." But, still, how does the thinking that leads them to believe this stuff even actually work? I don't get it.

thrill 6y ago

People do. My brother's wife's sister's husband's father (yep) flew to Nigeria and gave them a suitcase full of money back in the day 20 years ago. He remains convinced that he will eventually get a huge return.