It all started with an online video of what appeared to be Elon Musk promoting a new investment opportunity…

  • hapalochlaena_lunulata@mstdn.plus
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    10 months ago

    @veeesix What became of well-established adage that nobody is going to just offer you free money?

    The format of the scam has changed a bit, but the fundamentals remain… electronic or old school paper, this should have been obvious as a scam.

    Someone, 80 right now, was 50 when commercial internet became popular, & late-30’s / early 40’s when computers came to workplaces. This stuff is decades old, and everyone has had decades to learn.

    I feel sorry for this victim, but it was preventable.

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      10 months ago

      Totally preventable. Setting aside tech literacy for even a moment, they fully ignored the warnings their friends gave them and went along anyway.