Re:Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency in...
by spurdoman77 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:50PM
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I bought the dropbox thing years ago... they just added lots of fake referrals which increased the available storage. I also bought fake followers and what not.
I was young and stupid, wouldnt do it again. But obviously there is demand for that stuff, what can you do.
Re:Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency in...
by ev1 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:52PM
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Oh no, it's not the add 2GB with ref thing, it's "get pro plan with lifetime warranty". Apparently everything everybody sells comes with "warranty". Probably explains why there's pages of people complaining about things like this: https://i.imgur.com/FOzDIjD.png
I just found it funny that a "genuine 100% real followers" shop can't even get followers for themselves.
Plenty of financial crap: https://i.imgur.com/C5VZoAs.png
The entire market subforum is illegal, except for one or two. It's gone to literal shit.
Hacked server credentials, "cheap server for mining!!" VMs purchased via stolen credit cards and resold for spam, attacks, and crypto mining until they get shut down for abuse or chargeback, hacked .edu emails, hacked MSDN credentials, cracked software for money (it's a 50% chance they're offering stolen-credit-card-acquired keys, and a 50% chance they'll just send you probably_trojan_crack_keygen.exe and tell you the software needs this patched to work and to not download it from the official source).
Plenty of abusive services on offer, like "we'll upgrade your dropbox to pro for life" where the instructions are to send them your email and password and they just add a stolen credit card to pay annually.
The usual shitty "buy likes and followers on social media" scammers where their own account has 9 obviously bot followers with half naked women profile images, and nothing else.
Random half page selection: https://i.imgur.com/LiG25q8.png