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I like how the "cloned cards" are categorised as "Business","Financial Service" while the drugs seem to show up under "Health/beauty", "Medical Service", and ev
by userbinator 3y ago
I like how the "cloned cards" are categorised as "Business","Financial Service" while the drugs seem to show up under "Health/beauty", "Medical Service", and even "Musician"(?)
I also wonder if they are actually honeypots --- that could explain why they stay up.
- swores 3y agoMy money is them being 99% scammers who don't have whatever they claim to sell and are just looking for idiots to send some money - and as with intentionally using spelling mistakes in scam mass-sent emails are intentionally used to help filter out people who might realise the Nigerian prince isn't real, it makes sense to look incompetent at doing the listings. I wonder if any law enforcement agency (or researchers with an agency's permission) would / has ever do(be) a study of trying to buy from a large enough number of ads to know what % are scams vs. real.