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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters

www.wired.com

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Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters

www.wired.com

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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After Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency, the operators of a host of fraudulent websites have sought to hustle his supporters.
  • @[email protected]
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    Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don’t understand what’s going on.

    • chingadera
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      18•1 year ago

      If you’re gonna type out target, why the emoji?

      • @[email protected]
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        21•1 year ago

        MAGA Supporters would be reading it 🤣

    • @[email protected]
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      5•1 year ago

      I have had the misfortune of Mixing shows for Newsmax…that is literally their stick

      • @[email protected]
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        5•1 year ago

        Their shtick?

        • @[email protected]
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          Well I wasn’t smart enough to say no to working for that god awful place briefly… I’m certainly not smart enough to spel gud

          • @[email protected]
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            2•1 year ago

            Them beating you in the head with their stick probably didn’t help.

            • @[email protected]
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              Not at all… ha

        • @[email protected]
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          Their schtick.

          • @[email protected]
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            I thought so too, and schtick is a valid variant, but dictionaries list shtick first.

            • @[email protected]
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              1•1 year ago

              Yeah, both are correct in English.

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
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      15•1 year ago

      What a weird ❓ way to use emoji 😁

      • Captain Aggravated
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        1•1 year ago

        Yeah I don’t know why people do that.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•1 year ago

          I just removed that in my Google Messages app today. And just now in SwiftKey. I guess it came packaged in an update. It’s annoying, I never asked for it, just one day it started suggesting them in the autocorrect. Dumb.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•1 year ago

        iirc some phone keyboards autosuggest emoji when you type a word, op probably just didn’t bother to remove it

        • Echo Dot
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          6•1 year ago

          Yep, 👍 mine 🫵 does that. Don’t 🚫 know 🧠 why ❓ anyone would use it as it’s stupid

          • @[email protected]
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            1•1 year ago

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    • @[email protected]
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      2•1 year ago

      I’d love to see a study on the religiosity, political affiliation, education, wealth, career, and age of people who get scammed and the types of scams they fell for.

    • @[email protected]
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      1•1 year ago

      Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.

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