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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Cultists are easy to swindle.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

Ya because they already know that they're stupid.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good choice, most are dumb as fuck. If I were evil I would absolutely grift them. They make it so easy!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're already being grifted, they have already passed the first filter.

People sometimes wonder why scam emails and phone calls are so obvious, with mis-spellings, bad grammar and poor English. The thing is that they do this on purpose. Running a scam takes time and energy, you want to work marks that you know can be manipulated easily, and if someone can't determine that an email from "micosaft.pAypal-Customre-Sercicve.com" isn't legit, they're VERY likely to buy the story that they have to send money via Western Union to some random address in Kazakhstan to get their share of the king's inheritance.

Being in maga is basically that. If you're wearing a red hat and waving flags and spouting off FOX news lines to anyone who will listen, you're a mark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Makes sense. Thieves filtering for easy marks is probably older than writing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Havent thought about the spelling mistakes being a filter, but now that you say it, it does makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

Less money for Trump to scam from them... The Crypto Scammers are doing good for once.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Huh, well, I'll allow it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

i mean troompa loompas have been getting conned by king con-man conning them for years-- why shouldn't other con-men get a slice of the pie?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Grifters of all walks of life have long valued conservative orgs, because they are suckers, and a lot of them have done the hard work of contact lists.

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