I'm rich!! Woo hoo!

[YakkoWarner]

I miss the days when someone trying to scam you actually had to work at it. Show up at your front door, spend on postage to send something, spend to make long distance calls. Doesn't make it less wrong, but you knew they weren't trying to scam millions around the world with a few keystrokes.

Unfortunately ALL of those things were in theory trackable and they actually had to commit their crimes in some location with actual enforcement frameworks. Now all the authorities just say "it happened in the internet, its not our problem" so the scammers are effectively guaranteed immunity from any consequence. In my opinion the decision to just officially wash their hands of internet crime in some ways makes the authorities complicit.

 

[JPSmit]

these are particularly sad

How a small town Canadian grandmother ended up in a Hong Kong prison

A 64-year-old grandmother from Barrie, Ont. faces life in prison in Hong Kong, accused of smuggling drugs, after being duped twice in what her family believes was a sophisticated romance scam.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[NutmegCT]

Imagine a world where children learn to be critical of what they see and read, and to ask "How do I know this is true?" - instead of just swiping across their screens, hitting Reply, or sharing "stuff" with everyone on their contact list.

Just about everything digital is trackable. But with bazillions of digital scam attempts, with no cost to the scammer, the number grows logarithmically, and there's never enough people to do the tracking. Charge one cent for each email sent - cut way down on the digital problem.

 

[mikephillips]

It'll get even worse as the deepfake technology gets to the point you can make anyone look like they've done/said anything. Even with the "watermarking" supposedly being developed to prove what's authentic, there will be those who figure out how to fake it. I rely so much on what I've learned over the pre internet years from reading history and using multiple sources and opinions to form my own. My dad who was an attorney and prosecutor would expect my brothers and I to utilize critical thinking.

 

[JPSmit]

Imagine a world where children learn to be critical of what they see and read, and to ask "How do I know this is true?" - instead of just swiping across their screens, hitting Reply, or sharing "stuff" with everyone on their contact list.

Imagine a world where adults did too.

 

[Gliderman8]

I'm rich too!!!! This is too good to pass up, but I will
By the way, the last sentence states that this is "confidential" so mums the word.

 

[Hamish Racing]

A redacted email address on a scamming note.
that’s kind we wouldn’t want them to be inundated with spam and scams

 

[pdplot]

I'd like to sell my cars online but there are too many scammers out there.

 

[AngliaGT]

Imagine a world where children learn to be critical of what they see and read, and to ask "How do I know this is true?" - instead of just swiping across their screens, hitting Reply, or sharing "stuff" with everyone on their contact list.

Just about everything digital is trackable. But with bazillions of digital scam attempts, with no cost to the scammer, the number grows logarithmically, and there's never enough people to do the tracking. Charge one cent for each email sent - cut way down on the digital problem.

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Whatever happened to "Question Everything"?