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"you get what you fucking deserve."
And the biggest scammer on that platform...the orange turn himself
Wasn't that the whole point of it in the first place?
target rich environment
Well, wouldn’t you target those fucktards if you were looking to make a quick buck?
It's not just his platform. Watch the dime-store networks that cover him. OANN, Real America, or whatever the fuck they're called. They'll show footage of Trump rallies right next to ads for Ivermectin, clearly obvious crypto scams, and ads you'd expect to see on some shady porn or torrent site.
Which isn't a surprise. Trump has corralled the dumb and gullible and made it nice and easy for scammers to target en masse.
To be fair, this is all social media these days. Especially the ads. I use an adblock (ofc), but some of my friends and family who don't are constantly getting baited.
Apart from lemmy, so far.
Damn good point. Sometimes forget this is a form of social media too.
So are his rallys. Every rally he posts qr codes for land scams and other devious and scammy shit like Trump Bibles. The dude is a walking plague.
"I Rob Banks Because That's Where the Money Is" - Alphonse Capone.
I wonder what, if anything, will by done about this by those in charge of the app.
Depending on how many "users" are actually scammers, a deletion of such accounts would lead to a decreased user count. Considering Dementia Don's obsession with bigly numbers, such an action would probably upset him. Besides, as other social media sites have proven, deleting scammer accounts without doing anything to deter them would simply become a game of whack-a-mole.
Highlighting tips to avoid scammers is what a lot of companies would do. But this is "Truth Social." Informing their users in order to protect them from scams would give away their own game. (Or do nothing, since so many of these users are already too gullible to function.)
Even before any of that, taking action requires admitting that they have a problem, which doesn't fit into the modern GOP handbook.
Depending on how many "users" are actually scammers, a deletion of such accounts would lead to a decreased user count.
Just include suspended accounts when publishing user counts. Like how Trump leaves his shoes on when he gets measured for a physical so people will think he's actually 6'3".
I don't take my shoes off either, I just wear my chucks. I think there's a 1/4" sole on those.
Truth Social’s seemingly target-rich environment is also home to romantic relationship scams, including one 72-year-old man reporting that, after chatting with a “beautiful” woman on the app, he was fleeced out of $21,000. “I haven’t told my wife about this blunder. She still doesn’t know about it,” his complaint read.
Yikes, votes to take away your wife's Healthcare then cheat on her with a scammer you met on truth social to the toon of $21k. Chef kiss.
I mean that's why the owner set it up in the first place
Good. The more money the swindlers take, the less those idiots can waste on Donalds campaign funding.
And maybe, just maybe the one or other learns a lesson from this.
A fool and his money.
Am pretty sure Trump is taking a cut from the scams as well... Trumps grift has no limits
Yeah I imagine it’s like an MLM / pyramid scheme. It all trickles up. And the actual “reportable” fraud occurs at a very low level that the Trump campaign cannot easily be connected to.
Self selecting suckers...
I'm not surprised.
Have you seen the scammers on other social media platforms? MLM schemes, love scams, charging a fuck-to of money to teach people how to write entry letters to casino sweepstakes for "free" online casino coins.
I can only imagine what a place that starts with gathering together people that view life as a zero-sum game develops for scamming and ripping people off.
I mean, it is a goldmine of gullible people after all....
I'm just surprised they have large amounts of money to be swindled out of.
Can you blame the scammers? Like teasing a dog with a steak
Plot twist: it’s just one user and he’s ripping them off by asking for donations to his campaign
Not much of a twist though. Those of us with more than 2 brain cells saw it coming a mile off
Some of us did from approx. 9000mi away.
No, there is that, but this is not all that organized. It's easy to say ha ha, boomers dumb, but it's wild to think of how crypto schemes have shifted potentially billions of imaginary wealth into the real pockets of randos
Oh. I know it’s not just that, I was just trying to make a joke
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