I remember the people replying to Elon Musk tweets with the same avatar as him except they scribbled in the part of the square cut off by the circle, so Twitter wouldn't detect it as Elon Musk's
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It’s an even less-clever variation on the original infamous Make Money Fast chain letter / pyramid scheme from 1988, and I’m sure if I went digging, I’d learn that fraudsters in Ancient Rome had been pulling the same scam.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast …
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I remember this was a big thing on Runescape back in the day. Seeing it was the first time I really cottoned on that liars operate by sheer blunt force of repetition rather than with any particularly clever trick.
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(I expected that the scammers would have some big cover story or try to get people away from others. In actuality they'd do it in the open, brazenly ignore all the people yelling that it was a scam, and make money hand over fist every time.)
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this pre-dates bitcoin, it's the classic 419 scam - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam … (with history back to the 18th century)
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Mindblowing that ppl don’t realize the person giving away BTC can just do that without receiving BTC first.
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Right, like unlike the Nigerian prince thing there's not even really a good cover story
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