I'm so glad they're losing it to these scams instead of to leon.
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I feel like they don’t even need to be crypto schemes affiliated with Musk for that Venn diagram to work
Can we take NASA contract away from SpaceX? Let's bring it back in house. Space should not be for profit .
But then how will billionaires get to say they're literally thinking of the big picture because they got to go on a brief space joy ride?
Arg
Just want to share that NASA has one of the highest ROIs of any government agency.
I want to increase NASAs budget and go to space.
Idiots who fall for Elon Musks genius persona and think they are smart also fall for crypto scams? Shocking I tell you, shocking
This has been news in Canada for about a year, story after story about people getting sucked in and losing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. When it's not Musk it's Justin Trudeau, same M.O.
You'd think if these people read the news outlets they share their stories with that they would have seen one of the articles already because they're so common. But then again people still take Sunwing package vacations then complain to the news when it's subpar so idk.
Edit to add I blame big tech more than the scam victims, they have no protections in place and are profiting off the scammers immorally as well. They should have to manually review these things or at least be responsive to user reports and they're doing neither. I actually know someone who got banned from Meta products for reporting too many scam ads.
You’d think if these people read the news outlets they share their stories with that they would have seen one of the articles already because they’re so common.
Crypto scams have overwhelmed the news feeds. I see scams showing up on the front page of my fucking retirement account. Dumb money retail investors chasing fictitious capital are setting off a feeding frenzy.
while other times they utilized Musk’s association with neo-fascist presidential candidate Donald Trump.
I love that they called him what he is. I wish more in media would.
Dork Maggot.
I saw one of these and it took me a second to realize it was a scam. I'm a spaceflight geek and as much as a tool as Musk is, there's heavy overlap in spaceflight and SpaceX.
On Youtube there was a purported "live launch update" livestream. I was confused because I knew there were no launches scheduled that day of any kind much less SpaceX. What I saw was Musk on a stage outdoors apparently talking about a new SpaceX crypto product and the voice, which sounded exactly like Musk's talked about giving away free crypto the only thing you had to do was buy it, then share you wallet info and Musk would double it.
Besides this smelling very suspect, I realized that there were never close shots when musk was talking, so you couldn't see the lips match the words being said audibly and I knew it was a scam.
I can absolutely see how the greedy would get scammed by this.
I can absolutely see how the greedy would get scammed by this.
Really? The only way that could sound more like a scam is if there were a chyron at the bottom spelling out THIS IS A SCAM.
It sounds like a scam because I'm distilling all the things that told me it was a scam. I'm glad you can take what I'm tell you is a scam and say "yes thats a scam". Congrats?
Musk also does stupid stuff that loses money. He's (likely illegally) giving away money to buy votes in some states. Musk is also a known cryptobro. The idea that Musk would be giving away crypto to try to build influence or attention isn't far fetched.
I saw one of these too on YouTube – it easily popped up early on my home page.
I'd consider myself a tech savvy person and even then, this took a minute to spot the scam. I can totally see someone falling for it.
Ngl I always hated crypto but this is like best argument for crypto. Wtf I'm even doing at my job, I should be doing something actually important like scramming Elon Musk fans.
I like the idea of crypto, vut i hate crypto bros.
I don't really like idea, I can't see how it could be done in anyway that doesn't lead to already rich people insider trading it.
I like the basic fundamental idea, but the implementation is dreadful.
I'm all for coming up with some kind of method for validating decentralized information but the system that cryptocurrencies use is highly inefficient.
But they weren’t talking with Musk, of course.
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If only they had a safe place to put their money that was protected by law and insured against losses.
First world comment.
The only people buying into crypto scams are westerners anyway because no one else has the money
Here is the secret all crypto is a scam. People just have not figured it out yet.
Tech bros are tech broing?!
Who taught this Tardigrade to play the Cello? Its all wrong. He's not going to get any notes out of it playing it under the bridge.
He's doing the best he can, show a little respect.
There's a simple explanation for this. Elon Musk fans are fucking idiots.
Like their master
They might also just be the target demographic for pig butchering.
- Middle Class
- Over 40
- Conservative Male (lonely)
- Greedy / Self-serving
But yeah there is definitely correlation with low cognitive ability.
You also have to be the sort of person that genuinely believes you can get something for nothing. You have to have a relatively low IQ for that to be the case.
You also have to have a relatively low IQ to continue to listen to anything Musk says, so the group are Self-Selecting.
Schadenfreude popcorn 🍿 time.
A lot of the people falling for these scams are straight up mentally ill or disabled.
It's funny to think of some blowhard yacht guy getting fleeced. Less funny to see an adult with Down's Syndrome or Schizophrenia or Dementia or a child who got hold of a parent's credit card and sucked in by some Mr. Beast tier grift get played.
Don't have empathy. It's not allow
Citation?
It's just how basic demographics analysis works. There's a lot more people who are struggling with mental health problems/mental disabilities that make them more prone to believing scams. And so many games and storefronts use dark patters to make it extremely easy to make undesired purchases or have no safeguards to prevent children from using their parents credit card for purchases.
All these kinds of people vastly outnumber dumb finance bros on their yachts making stupid money decisions.
The article said nothing about intellectual disability, but it did suggest some older people contextually from their complaints. Here’s an actual citation from one of the complaints that I think sums it up perfectly:
Now, i’m an intelligent [person], at least I consider myself that to be. I am a huge fan of elon musk and tesla. I only bit into this because it did sound too good to be true.