Re:FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
by alexambarch on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:59AM
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Oh boy I sure hope I receive my grandmother's Monero cold wallet in her will!
Re:FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
by wenebego on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:55AM
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This seems like victim blaming.
Re:FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
by PopAlongKid on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:00AM
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That would only apply if every single person who claimed they were a victim, was in fact a victim. I'm speculating that is not the case, because there are strong financial incentives to lie.
Re:FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
by jszymborski on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:08AM
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This is precisely what people say right before they start victim blaming.
Re:FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
by PopAlongKid on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:59AM
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Maybe too subtle, but I'm saying there are some scammers who call themselves victims, to try to cover up their own scam. I don't see how "victim blaming" could apply in this case.
Re:FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
by berner on Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:38PM
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It's an interesting idea, but I doubt that many are going through with reporting a fake digital scam loss to the FBI without a lot of them getting caught in basic blunders, especially when the FBI goes to trace and recover the funds..
Our perception of losses based on lying in circumstances where there are no consequences may be higher.
And in the U.S. at least, many of these elderly are very interested in trying to deduct these losses from their taxable income. As a skeptic, I think it is too tempting to claim "I was scammed out of $200K in digital assets" (which may have been purchased in the first place as part of the alleged scam) in order to actually hide those assets from family and/or the government.