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Europe somehow is often a bit lagging behind the US - in good and in bad - the obesity pandemic is also just really starting to show here as well. Scammers upp
by dachris 2y ago
Europe somehow is often a bit lagging behind the US - in good and in bad - the obesity pandemic is also just really starting to show here as well.
Scammers upped their game here also in the last few years and especially months.
No week in the local news without a love/crypto/elderly scam going into the 10s to 100 thousands.
Especially in the last few months, in my social circle, scammers really increased in density and quality - fake email accounts, AI calls, real people "you opened a crypto account with us" and "it's your niece Mary" calls.
The fragmentation of Europe might really help here - no one in their right mind will pick up on a call from another state anymore (or some people, even an unknown phone numbers are off limits, for that matter).
- consp 2y agoThe biggest annoyance is "private" numbers, which are not private anyway just invisible. Some companies still use them, but most are scammers. Really annoying if you have to unblock private numbers because some company does not want to pay for masking their internal numbers with the general number.