People always act like crypto is useless and crypto scams are bad but…
Thoughts and prayers to the crypto scammers who have to interact with Trump supporters
It’s like the people that unwittingly signed up for recurring donations to Trump’s campaign and are suddenly finding their bank accounts drained. Hard to feel sorry for these chumps.
Oh no! Anyway
What… like, more?
Ya because they already know that they’re stupid.
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Is there really a difference if the money goes to crypto guys or some GOP PAC? They are both scammers from the word go.
And as scammers prefer to target the most gullible idiots, they already have a perfect target group for their “business” with the MAGA brains.
The money going to crypto guys has less negative impact and might even help some 3rd world north Koreans actually afford food. Any money going to the GOP only brings pain and suffering.
Either way it’s going to organized crime. At least the crypto scammers are unlikely to influence the election!
Yes, crypto guys aren’t interested in using the money to help the US become a fascist hellscape.
Of course. Why wouldn’t a con artist go after a group that has already self-selected for gullibility?
More importantly than being gullible, they often have substantial money and property.
It’s hard to see how thwy still manage to have much money after all the grifters have been picking their pockets.
A lot of these folks have passive income streams that make falling for a four or five digit scam incidental to their way of life.
Not sure whether “let them fight” or “spidermen pointing” meme is more appropriate
You know how I know my maga relative lost everything he tried to “invest” in crypto? Because he suddenly STFU about it.
There was a while in 2019(I think) when all the office talk(software firm) was crypto then it just stopped it was glorious.
Anybody who is seriously in the software industry should have realized the crypto was a giant pyramid scheme that they would definitely at the bottom of.
And if one person tells me that it’s not fiat one more time they’re going to get a slap. Absolutely 100% is fiat shut up.
crypto was a giant pyramid scheme
Was? I don’t agree but I understand when people keep saying it’s a pyramid scheme. I don’t understand the past tense though.
Absolutely 100% is fiat
I think a key difference is that it’s maintained by an open network of computers rather than a state.
It’s sold as a money making scheme not as an alternative form of currency. If you just use it as an alternative form of currency to get around some kind of restriction then it’s fine but the crypto bros don’t use it like that. They think it’s going to manifest some kind of will for them. Of course they’re being tricked by other people who’ve already invested. Who themselves were tricked by other people who already invested. It’s literally a pyramid scheme. The only way anybody makes money is to get other saps involved.
It’s not fiat.
Now give me a slap daddy
The masochist told the sadist, “Hurt me.”
The sadist said, “No.”
I actually get crypto as a concept but I really think their can only be one coin of any true value, and right now it’s Bitcoin. I think at some point something will come and knock it off the pedistool.
I’m not a get rich quick kinda guy so I never bothered with crypto and have only played around with a little bit of money trading stocks and treated it just like I do gambling (money I will lose, although I did make a bit of money back on GameStop lol).
The worst thing that ever happened to Crypto was the price rising so high. It made idiots billionaires overnight, and then these idiots thought that made them smart. Now they spend all their time going to Blockchain conferences and patting themselves on the back for being so revolutionary when in reality they just got lucky.
knock it off the pedistool.
Pedi + stool…like a footstool?
No, pedi as in pediatrics. They’re talking about knocking it off of child poop.
It didn’t stop, sadly. Everyone just started talking about AI instead.
Yeah, times like 2019 are the best times to buy actually.
When crypto is up, the hype gets out of control and fools rush in to buy. The best time to buy is when crypto is “dead” once again.
(On the other hand bitcoin and proof-of-work is already any obsolete technology… And almost all NFTs are trash… So stick with ETH or whatever instead.)
stupid, dumb people, easier target. Who can blame the scammers? :D
For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.
What your telling me the EYE R S (they actually spelled it like that) doesn’t want me to give them $10,000 in Apple gift cards? Also I’m not American but who’s counting?
I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.
Cultists are easy to swindle.
I thought the NFTs from Trump are a scam, or is this another scam?
I’ll have you know those NFTs were worth millions!!! For like 2 seconds when people paid money for NFTs still
The fact people bought NFTs just proves that crypto bros just buy into hype without understanding the technology.
I knew NFTs were bullshit from the start because I actually took the time to understand how they “worked”.
I work in the anti-crypto scam industry. I applaud their efforts. Ethical fuckery.
That’s an industry now? What do you guys do?
Quite a lot, actually. This is really a summation and not comprehensive.
- Evaluate an environment after incident:
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- looking for IOCs, determine spread
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- Determine backup status and restore if possible
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- Return environment to healthy state (AD restore, replication, networking, etc.,)
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- Lockdown of security holes
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- Advise on best practices going forward
- Decrypt environment if client pays ransom
etc., etc.
Depending on the complexity of the environment, this can take a lot of time and effort: much bigger than most internal teams are capable of doing. A client I had in Feb-Mar lasted a total of 3200 hours of work between 12 people on my team across 34 locations to unfuck the situation.
That’s… an industry?
And donate to a left leaning charity? Chaotic good
Nah, just targeting the low hanging fruit in a get rich quick scheme. I’m not crying though.
