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> After his death, the scammers sent Guffey a laughing face emoji and a message using a pseudo account on Instagram after the original one was shut down. “It sa
by annexrichmond 3y ago
> After his death, the scammers sent Guffey a laughing face emoji and a message using a pseudo account on Instagram after the original one was shut down. “It said, ‘did I tell you your son begged for his life?’” Guffey says. They also demanded money in exchange for the photos.
I wish there was a special prison for these types of people. Jesus Christ.
- mjhay 3y agoCon artists seem to often have a psychopathy that even a lot of violent criminals don't possess.
- Widdershin 3y agoGonna get even worse once this sort of work is outsourced to language models en masse
- Log_out_ 3y agoI had a "son" WhatsApp scammer I took for a chat gpt ride. The "father" wouldn't send money cause the son was an addict. Sleezy scumbag happily pressed along promising rehab, sun and moon.
- sonicanatidae 3y agoI would go to Taken levels of "yeah, I'm coming after you" if this happened to me. Yet again, Humans are the problem.
- Barrin92 3y ago>using a pseudo account points to one of the major issues around this. Why are these even possible? Instagram is a social network for real people. Implement a strong form of ID verification. Charge people a dollar for a sign up. Sure there'll still be edge cases of people using stolen creds but it cuts down what, 99.9% of scam? The kid in the article was extorted for 25$. Drive the cost of this crap up.