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Not victim blaming but wow. Some people are really naive yet they can still have so much money while very high IQ people struggle to make money due to their lac

Not victim blaming but wow. Some people are really naive yet they can still have so much money while very high IQ people struggle to make money due to their lack of social skills.

phendrenad2 2y ago
And as money is a sign of how society values you, it stands to reason that those people are wasting their IQ because everyone overvalues social skills.
- worthless-trash 2y ago
  The big takeaway here is to dress well, scam people with smooth talk and abuse every loophole that exists with abstract business standing between you and the problem. This is just another day for some people.
  - OutOfHere 2y ago
    Yes, this will get you a paycheck, but working for such a firm will not improve the general human condition.
tredre3 2y ago
> very high IQ people fall for scams all the time too.
watercool 2y ago
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jeroenhd 2y ago
In my country, there's a quite famous case of a high-IQ (autistic, I believe) millionaire CEO who married a pathological liar that told him all kinds of conspiracy theories about the government, Russian hackers, his ex, and tricked him into losing a huge part of his fortune. He had to be kicked out of his own companies because he refused to back down from the batshit insane claims whispered into his ear. High IQ does not make you immune to scams. I believe that thinking you're immune to scams because you have a high IQ only makes you more likely to fall for one some day. In this case, the app looks to be a classic pig butchering scheme, acting as if it were a real cryptocurrency marketplace, letting people trade and exchange cryptocurrencies in a virtual environment. They may have even tranferred small amounts of money out of the "accounts" to make the whole scam more believeable. Once you transfer back and forth a couple thousand dollars, you'd probably think the app is legit, after all, and invest those millions into the lucrative money making app. Only when people try to get all of their profits out, or when the app goes down, do people find out that they've been scammed, but the money is long gone by then.
nullc 2y ago
There are lot of scams-- maybe even a majority-- that depend on the mark being smart enough and confident enough in their reasoning to talk themselves into the scam. When you think of a scam victim you should think not of an idiot but a reasonably smart person who is distracted, gets greedy, or thinks that they're immune to scams. You don't need to actively scam idiots, you just offer them bad deals. Do it well enough and you get a bonus for improving shareholder value.

Not victim blaming but wow. Some people are really naive yet they can still have so much money while very high IQ people struggle to make money due to their lack of social skills.

phendrenad2 2y ago

And as money is a sign of how society values you, it stands to reason that those people are wasting their IQ because everyone overvalues social skills.

worthless-trash 2y ago
The big takeaway here is to dress well, scam people with smooth talk and abuse every loophole that exists with abstract business standing between you and the problem. This is just another day for some people.
- OutOfHere 2y ago
  Yes, this will get you a paycheck, but working for such a firm will not improve the general human condition.

tredre3 2y ago

> very high IQ people fall for scams all the time too.

watercool 2y ago

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jeroenhd 2y ago

In my country, there's a quite famous case of a high-IQ (autistic, I believe) millionaire CEO who married a pathological liar that told him all kinds of conspiracy theories about the government, Russian hackers, his ex, and tricked him into losing a huge part of his fortune. He had to be kicked out of his own companies because he refused to back down from the batshit insane claims whispered into his ear. High IQ does not make you immune to scams. I believe that thinking you're immune to scams because you have a high IQ only makes you more likely to fall for one some day. In this case, the app looks to be a classic pig butchering scheme, acting as if it were a real cryptocurrency marketplace, letting people trade and exchange cryptocurrencies in a virtual environment. They may have even tranferred small amounts of money out of the "accounts" to make the whole scam more believeable. Once you transfer back and forth a couple thousand dollars, you'd probably think the app is legit, after all, and invest those millions into the lucrative money making app. Only when people try to get all of their profits out, or when the app goes down, do people find out that they've been scammed, but the money is long gone by then.

nullc 2y ago

There are lot of scams-- maybe even a majority-- that depend on the mark being smart enough and confident enough in their reasoning to talk themselves into the scam. When you think of a scam victim you should think not of an idiot but a reasonably smart person who is distracted, gets greedy, or thinks that they're immune to scams. You don't need to actively scam idiots, you just offer them bad deals. Do it well enough and you get a bonus for improving shareholder value.