Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever (www.wired.com)

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 6 months ago

For some reason I'm proud of them.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Alternate title: People are dumber than ever

[-] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 56 points 6 months ago

This is disingenuous. Scammers have gotten smarter over the years and not everybody is technologically savvy. All it takes is a perfect storm of factors for even the most experienced people to fall prey to scams.

Stop victim blaming and focus on education. It's the only way this gets better.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 6 months ago

People think they're immune to scams, but all it takes is a moment of vulnerability, some great coincidence, some peer pressure, or something i these lines, and they will fall victim. I've seen so many intelligent and tech-savvy people fall for so many scams over the years...

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago

If we can get the idiots off the net by them getting ripped off, maybe the internet will get better again.

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