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'All our dreams are gone': Ottawa couple scammed out of $177k (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It all started with an online video of what appeared to be Elon Musk promoting a new investment opportunity...

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@veeesix What became of well-established adage that nobody is going to just offer you free money?

The format of the scam has changed a bit, but the fundamentals remain... electronic or old school paper, this should have been obvious as a scam.

Someone, 80 right now, was 50 when commercial internet became popular, & late-30's / early 40's when computers came to workplaces. This stuff is decades old, and everyone has had decades to learn.

I feel sorry for this victim, but it was preventable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Totally preventable. Setting aside tech literacy for even a moment, they fully ignored the warnings their friends gave them and went along anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FOMO. So many people lost their minds because they "missed out" on the crypto bubble. I'm convinced that's the only reason NFTs even got halfway as far as they did - folks trying to artificially meme up a new gold rush that they could ride