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I am absolutely sickened by the ghouls in this thread, laughing at the victims of scams. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
To the victims of Truth Social, my heart hurts for you, and I'm here to help:
Send me the financial transaction details of the scam, including your bank account number, your social insurance number, date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and other documentation as needed, and I will take care of things.
God Bless!!!!!!!
Hallelujah! And buy the Trump bible in 10 copies, because it will get you a place in Trump heaven!
social insurance number
Limey detected!
OK Truthers, this is why you need my protection. DON'T FALL VICTIM to these FOREIGNERS! If contacted, immediately notify me with any information they requested and I'll VERIFY THE SECURITY of your private details.
Canuck more likely. In the UK it's a national insurance number.
Thoughts and Prayers.
And also your credit card expiration date, and the CVV number on the back.
It’s like an all you scam buffet
I don't feel any empathy to those people and they're easy to scam, so I might need to check this business opportunity.
I feel absolutely zero sympathy for these people. It’s not a platform full of Rhodes scholars either so it’s like shooting fish in a barrel
It's roads scholars..... And the pretty lady on the internet app said I will have all of my things back when I pay her my IRS fines with Walmart iTunes cards or Amazon..
Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
Ya don't say.
I mean if you're looking for people to con, then of course a huge group of people being actively conned so ridiculously easily is going to be a great hunting ground for them.
Another thing that sticks out about the complaints filed with the FTC is that they seem to involve plenty of elderly fans of Donald Trump. One 72-year-old man who reported chatting with a “beautiful” woman on the site was scammed out of $21,000. His complaint ends with, “I haven’t told my wife about this blunder. She still doesn’t know about it.” Another person in their 60s said they lost $500,000 to scammers on Truth Social and seemed to think there might be a way they could get their money back, telling the FTC, “After I pay this they promise there will be no more fees and I will receive my assets.”
what is even happening here. this reads like something from an onion article.
Nice to see them use their mental gymnastics skills for something other than Qanon lol
Truth Social has more than one user?
I’m just as surprised as you are.
estimated 607,000 monthly users (as of July 2023)
But how many of those are bots?
So ... It's a little bit smaller than Lemmy?
🤣 a bunch of communists built a more successful platform for free than a billionaire with unlimited free press exposure.
Truth Social and churches: name a better place to find gullible victims.
If they weren’t gullible, they wouldn’t be trump supporters.
That’s great. I’d rather have them getting scammed than them donating that money to their Nazi party
That's IMPOSSIBLE! Those people Do Their OWN Research!
Half the users are Trump supporters, the other half are scammers. It's a match made In heaven brought to you by Orange Jesus.
Thoughts and prayers.
I see a lot of handwringing in society over kids not being able to handle themselves online.
I'd be more worried about senior citizens.
Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
Thank you, Capital Obvious.
womp, and I cannot emphasize this enough: womp
My favourite quote from the article
Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Well yeah, it's entirely dumbfucks and old people.
Odds are it's the exact same family members as would send you Bill Gates chain email scams about 20 years ago, and who you inevitably had to remove a virus from their PC at some point, before you convinced them to get a tablet so they'd leave you alone.
Oh and they definitely DO NOT give Facebook permission to do whatever with their posts and photos, but also click "I agree" on every single popup.
I have found nothing is easier than separating a boomer and their money...well other than your mother.
Truth Social Users Are ~~Losing~~ Ridiculous ~~Sums of Money to Scams~~
ftfy Gizmodo
Oh boy, time to check in on my elderly parents who went down the trump scam
In an episode of the show bullshit (I think, I'm not 100% sure because I watch a lot of scam/anti-scam programming) there was an expert in MLMs saying that when you lose money in the MLM that isn't a negative outcome for a MLM company.
He said something like, "you are supposed to lose money, that's the business" and I can't help but think the exact same quote applies to this.
On the one hand, I feel like anyone promoting a scam artist for the White House deserves what's coming to them.
On the other hand, I consider scammers to be the lowest of the low.
This is one tricky moral limbo contest to judge.
I wish I knew how to grift. Honestly if these people want to give away their money, I'd take it. I wish I could come up with a way to scam these fucks
Start selling some dumb shit, like trump diapers, a trump doll that says "grab em by the pussy" or some other dumb ass shit his base likes. They'd snatch that shit up in a heartbeat. Take some of the proceeds for yourself, set up an account to put some into to donate to blue causes and candidates, and rinse/repeat. I guarantee that's what many of them are doing now. (Aside from the donate to blue part of course)
I mean, trump sneakers, trump bibles, trump watches, trump coins, trump assassination sneakers, you can't make this shit up.