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> This just happened to me a few days ago: Apparently the Web 3 crypto-bros get huffy when Or the crypto-bros know it's a scam, but want to be the scammer, and
by neilv 3y ago
> This just happened to me a few days ago: Apparently the Web 3 crypto-bros get huffy when
Or the crypto-bros know it's a scam, but want to be the scammer, and you're the heckler who is scaring away the new marks.
Which is potentially different than a mark who is in denial.
Though I'd guess a lot of people are arguably in both Venn diagram bubbles: they're consciously trying to be a scammer, but they're also useful idiots for the much bigger scammers (and quite possibly also fleeced on the way out).
- wharvle 3y agoScamming people into becoming part of a scamming-pyramid is how lots of these larger-scale scams work. See also: the business/life/whatever "coaching" industry. The real money's not in coaching ordinary folks, it's in coaching (i.e. scamming) coaches, including convincing people to become coaches so you can scam them.