• curious_illusions@lemmy.world
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    No he shouldn’t. He should just do nothing. Let Twitter die already. Also those are all so obviously AI generated images lol

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      I’m sorry, I can’t agree that nothing should be done. I would love Twitter to die, but these scams are actively hurting people. They are criminals and must be stopped and Twitter is doing nothing about it, even when Elon himself is used as bait.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Maybe to someone who’s online and knows what to spot it is. For a normie, it’s good enough to pass off as authentic.

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      1 year ago

      You and I wind up subsidizing these scams, as victims can fall into the social safety net.

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      1 year ago

      Hey, its me Elong Musk. twottef owner and tesla

      I am lost my wallet and need some help buying train ticket home.

      Please send me 20 doller google play gift card and when I am home I will repay you million dollars. I will be very graceful

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        In serious, scammers typically make it fake as shit since the people most likely to be scammed are going to overlook it anyways.

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          I have read that scammers try to make the scams look fake and crappy because they don’t want to entice any actually clever people - that’s more trouble than it’s worth. These are simple.scams for simple people.

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          Hi Mom! I was coming home from Mike’s and some guy mugged me, and I had the rent money in my pocket! Can you Venmo me $900 real quick? My new email is best.moms.son@gμail.com. I’ll pay you back next Friday when I get paid! Love you!

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        1 year ago

        I got one about as good as that on reddit. I received a series of DMs saying that I could, for $200, get a card recognizing my membership in the Elon Musk fan club.

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      They make it blatantly fake on purpose to weed out the more intelligent people who are less likely to fall for a scam. The scammers don’t want to spend hours reeling someone one in by appearing legitimate, only for the person to disengage at the first sign of a scam. They’d rather just filter those people out right away with something blatantly fake, and the people who are left are the ones susceptible to being scammed.

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      There are a lot of legitimate reasons someone might be a victim of one of these scams that aren’t the result of them being stupid, I don’t see any reason to encourage this crap

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      There’s plenty of vulnerable and not terribly IT literate people out there who are ripe for falling for these sorts of things. Never root for the scammers.

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    Pet peeve of mine: nothing about this is “ironic.”

    If the author really wants an adverb, I’d probably go with “unsurprisingly.”

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    Just like Security can’t stop every spam email, Twitter can’t stop every falsehood on its service. Both should try, though. Twitter has metrics and can put a stop to trending tweets that are clearly disinformation.

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      Isn’t it already costing him money? I find it very hard to believe there hasn’t been a dip in ad revenue since all this madness started.

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    I could only imagine what a Bear Grylls scam would look like.

    “If you donate one pisscoin to my wallet I’ll promise to double it!”

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    He doesn’t care. He only bought Twitter with Saudi money so that he could trash it and help prevent another Arab Spring.

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      Step 1. Create Mastodon Instance specifically to cater to oppressed people in oppressive regimes.

      Step 2. Create bots to emulate dissidents.

      Step 3. Sell instance to oppressive regimes for $$$

      Step 4. Rinse and Repeat.