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Kind of reminds me of a story my brother told of some country in Africa. He was friendly with some kids on the street and showed them how to set up an email address. So one day they came excitedly up to him and told him that they met someone and that they would be rich. Of course he immediately clocked the familiar scam.
He explained the whole situation by telling them that the internet was like the street. Don't trust anyone. That was an analogy they got pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don't understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I'd tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people's brain shuts off or something.
We're still great apes
Doesn't sound very great to me
Have you seen lemurs and stuff? They're tiny.
Well, you see, according to some mythology, the internet is the place of all ideas; thus it is compared to Platon's notion of "heaven".
Now, people have been told for generations that "heaven is a good place", and since the internet approximates heaven, people trust it way too much.
it's all Facebook and phone from what I've observed. but it's the same shit. and the schemes are not complicated. invest your money here and see it double in a week. invest more to earn more. they let people withdraw a little bit to earn trust, and when they've got a shitload of money they ghost.
there are fake businesses everywhere too. send money for some product or service and get nothing. easy.
it's complete anarchy.