After Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency, the operators of a host of fraudulent websites have sought to hustle his supporters.
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.
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Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don’t understand what’s going on.
If you’re gonna type out target, why the emoji?
MAGA Supporters would be reading it 🤣
I have had the misfortune of Mixing shows for Newsmax…that is literally their stick
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.
Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.