Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters
Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters
After Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency, the operators of a host of fraudulent websites have sought to hustle his supporters.
You're viewing a single thread.
catalog3115 @lemmy.world Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don't understand what's going on.
44 4 Replychingadera @lemmy.world If you're gonna type out target, why the emoji?
18 1 Replycatalog3115 @lemmy.world MAGA Supporters would be reading it 🤣
21 2 Reply
Jojo, Lady of the West @lemmy.blahaj.zone What a weird ❓ way to use emoji 😁
15 0 ReplyOmniraptor @lemm.ee iirc some phone keyboards autosuggest emoji when you type a word, op probably just didn't bother to remove it
4 0 ReplyEcho Dot @feddit.uk Yep, 👍 mine 🫵 does that. Don't 🚫 know 🧠 why ❓ anyone would use it as it's stupid
6 0 ReplyOmniraptor @lemm.ee some people are easily amused (by emoji spam). I love a good Donald Trump speech copypasta with all the hand gesture emojis
1 0 Reply
Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works Yeah I don't know why people do that.
1 0 ReplyCoffeeJunkie @lemmy.cafe I just removed that in my Google Messages app today. And just now in SwiftKey. I guess it came packaged in an update. It's annoying, I never asked for it, just one day it started suggesting them in the autocorrect. Dumb.
1 0 Reply
teamevil @lemmy.world I have had the misfortune of Mixing shows for Newsmax....that is literally their stick
4 1 ReplyMouselemming @sh.itjust.works Their shtick?
5 0 Replyteamevil @lemmy.world Well I wasn't smart enough to say no to working for that god awful place briefly.... I'm certainly not smart enough to spel gud
3 0 ReplyMouselemming @sh.itjust.works Them beating you in the head with their stick probably didn't help.
2 0 Replyteamevil @lemmy.world Not at all.. ha
1 0 Reply
samus12345 @lemmy.world Their schtick.
2 0 ReplyMouselemming @sh.itjust.works I thought so too, and schtick is a valid variant, but dictionaries list shtick first.
2 0 Replysamus12345 @lemmy.world Yeah, both are correct in English.
1 0 Reply
Zannsolo @lemmy.world I'd love to see a study on the religiosity, political affiliation, education, wealth, career, and age of people who get scammed and the types of scams they fell for.
2 0 Replyafraid_of_zombies @lemmy.world Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.
1 0 Reply