Re:The fake Facebook profile industry
by ensiferum on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:04AM
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Hah, how stupid do you need to be to fall into this obvious trap. Let's see... a random cute girl approaches you online and wants to initiate a sexy chat. The chances of this happening for real and not being a scam are about the same as you being a distant cousin to a Nigerian prince who just passed away and left you millions of dollars of inheritance.
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Spam relies on that 1% return, and it comes from either the lowest, the most ignorant, the most uneducated, .. or potentially the most lonely. That's what's probably the most insidious about this particular type of scam, that they target people who may have already made a series of bad decisions, or who are desperate and alone.
Re:The fake Facebook profile industry
by srtjstjsj on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:55AM
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> that they target people who may have already made a series of bad decisions, or who are desperate and alone.
like alcohol, casinos+lotteries, and free-to-play games with microtransactions
Are you comparing sextortionists to EA?
I agree.
It _has_ to be stupid. A non-scammy-looking scam might attract people who would notice any minor inconsistency, thus risking more reports and more time of the scammer wasted interacting with a potentially-failed prospect.
Now, only the most gullible, most desperate of people would fall into such "obvious" scams, which means a greater return rate for the effort spent.