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What's the dumbest, most blatantly obvious scam you've ever seen?

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Sep 16, 7:13 PM
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I'm biased because i work with computers but any ad that says "You have 100 viruses, click here to download our cleaner!"

Maybe it's the point but those scam emails always have obvious spelling and grammar mistakes.
My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine.

We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by
Sep 16, 7:18 PM
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the dumbest and obvious? would need to be "life"
Sep 16, 7:19 PM
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The classic "Muahahaha, I just emailed you your DOX, and I'll share it to EVERYONE if you don't give me 0.6 BTC!! AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!", with a Google Streetview of my old house (I've never gotten one of these with my current address on it, it's always an out of date one), plus some other extremely public info about me which was already willingly put out there BY ME.

It's cute when they do this to me, pretending like getting info from data brokers is high-art hackery. :3
Sep 16, 7:19 PM
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I got text messages saying something about owing money on unpaid tolls.

...I never drive on the highways so there's no way I can owe money on tolls.

Sep 16, 8:19 PM
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I still have a landline in my house, and I get a lot of soliciting calls. Once it was somebody pretending to be from my bank saying that I have over $1,000 worth of debt from my last purchase at GameStop. Which is impossible because I haven't bought anything from GameStop in like over a year. 🤣
Sep 16, 9:49 PM
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Probably this. They did not even send it through email.
"Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
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🌷Weiß Engel🐇

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Probably this. They did not even send it through email.
@PeripheralVision Wait, have some scammer also deleted your yesterday's HB thread, and another one by Moonspeak? Damn, MAL is full of scam nowdays.
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The "women near your location looking for sex" banners.
No, this isn't my signature.
Yesterday, 10:56 AM
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I got an email from a stranger who threatened to publicize my porn history if I didn't send him money.
その目だれの目?
Yesterday, 1:06 PM

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The biggest scam I've seen withing recent years? NFTs

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