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None of these donation scammers are making any money. empty wallets or peanuts. The big $ is in those fake crypto giveaway livestreams on youtube. In a single
by hamiltonians 5y ago
None of these donation scammers are making any money. empty wallets or peanuts.
The big $ is in those fake crypto giveaway livestreams on youtube. In a single month scammers combined earned as much as all ukraine crypto donations, about $30 million, and do it month after month unstopped . greed is more profitable than generosity.
- input_sh 5y agoMy experience as well. Any scamming operation in people's inbox and either the operators are earning nothing or are smart enough to use separate blockchain addresses (unlikely if you ask me). On the other hand, one YouTube livestream playing some Musk talk and boom, dozens of thousands of dollars minimum. YouTube's algorithm really likes to push livestreams with thousands of views.
- vmception 5y agoThere are a bunch of more consensual opportunistic things happening, people launch “Charity tokens” all day with trading taxes built in where the tax is actually sent to Ukraine government addresses Even the least cynical traders notice that only a fraction of a single digit percent of the money being thrown around is being sent to Ukraine, but its actually happening and people do love to flip newly launched tokens I avoid them because they could rug (remove liquidity, or be backdoored), but otherwise they are providing an effective form of entertainment where proceeds go to charity, better than the charities are