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Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters (www.wired.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] catalog3115 40 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don't understand what's going on.

[–] whostosay 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you're gonna type out target, why the emoji?

[–] catalog3115 19 points 5 months ago

MAGA Supporters would be reading it 🤣

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What a weird ❓ way to use emoji 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

iirc some phone keyboards autosuggest emoji when you type a word, op probably just didn't bother to remove it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, 👍 mine 🫵 does that. Don't 🚫 know 🧠 why ❓ anyone would use it as it's stupid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't know why people do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] teamevil 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have had the misfortune of Mixing shows for Newsmax....that is literally their stick

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Their shtick?

[–] teamevil 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Them beating you in the head with their stick probably didn't help.

[–] teamevil 1 points 5 months ago

Not at all.. ha

[–] samus12345 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Their schtick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought so too, and schtick is a valid variant, but dictionaries list shtick first.

[–] samus12345 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, both are correct in English.

[–] Zannsolo 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 5 months ago

Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.