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mysticpickle ,

It's like the people that unwittingly signed up for recurring donations to Trump's campaign and are suddenly finding their bank accounts drained. Hard to feel sorry for these chumps.

Fedizen ,

Not sure whether "let them fight" or "spidermen pointing" meme is more appropriate

jeffw OP ,
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I’d pick spidermen

Treczoks ,

Is there really a difference if the money goes to crypto guys or some GOP PAC? They are both scammers from the word go.

And as scammers prefer to target the most gullible idiots, they already have a perfect target group for their "business" with the MAGA brains.

Passerby6497 ,

The money going to crypto guys has less negative impact and might even help some 3rd world north Koreans actually afford food. Any money going to the GOP only brings pain and suffering.

chonglibloodsport ,

Either way it’s going to organized crime. At least the crypto scammers are unlikely to influence the election!

samus12345 ,
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Yes, crypto guys aren't interested in using the money to help the US become a fascist hellscape.

afraid_of_zombies ,
ininewcrow ,
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Isn't that what those supporters are there for? .... to be scammed

PineRune ,

It's just different scammers now.

Jakdracula ,
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Non paywall linky:

https://archive.ph/FC91C

Tylerdurdon ,

But see, the truly smart scammer would have a potentially decent coin and name it maga-coin. They're looking for anything except government currency...the super scam, or is it?

MeekerThanBeaker ,

Pretty sure there is a Maga coin already.

K1nsey6 ,
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LucidNightmare ,

God. What a sad fucking rabbit hole I just went down.

KingThrillgore ,
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Grifters of all walks of life have long valued conservative orgs, because they are suckers, and a lot of them have done the hard work of contact lists.

explodicle ,

Trump was anti-Bitcoin while president, when his opinion mattered. And now that it's taken off despite him, he's trying to promise crypto users what Biden has already delivered. The SEC just dropped its case against Ethereum.

These are the exact same people who keep leaving their coins on exchanges.

ours ,

And he certainly wasn't anti-crypto when it came to pushing his own lazy NFTs.

jdeath ,

thanks for reminding me of those. it gave me a laugh to think about people holding those worthless things

radicalautonomy ,
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Ah, Big Stupid enabling the Scammer Class: a tale as old as time.

OhStopYellingAtMe ,
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Cultists are easy to swindle.

Censored ,

How tragic.

samus12345 ,
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Orbituary ,
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I work in the anti-crypto scam industry. I applaud their efforts. Ethical fuckery.

explodicle ,

That's an industry now? What do you guys do?

Orbituary ,
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Quite a lot, actually. This is really a summation and not comprehensive.

  • Evaluate an environment after incident:
    • looking for IOCs, determine spread
    • Determine backup status and restore if possible
    • Return environment to healthy state (AD restore, replication, networking, etc.,)
    • Lockdown of security holes
    • Advise on best practices going forward
  • Decrypt environment if client pays ransom

etc., etc.

Depending on the complexity of the environment, this can take a lot of time and effort: much bigger than most internal teams are capable of doing. A client I had in Feb-Mar lasted a total of 3200 hours of work between 12 people on my team across 34 locations to unfuck the situation.

jeffw OP ,
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That’s… an industry?

Orbituary ,
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See my comment in a parallel conversation to this.

cabron_offsets ,

Fuckem.

technocrit ,

People always act like crypto is useless and crypto scams are bad but...

CptEnder ,

Thoughts and prayers to the crypto scammers who have to interact with Trump supporters

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