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I mean, it is a goldmine of gullible people after all…
I’m just surprised they have large amounts of money to be swindled out of.
Can you blame the scammers? Like teasing a dog with a steak
target rich environment
And the biggest scammer on that platform…the orange turn himself
Truth Social’s seemingly target-rich environment is also home to romantic relationship scams, including one 72-year-old man reporting that, after chatting with a “beautiful” woman on the app, he was fleeced out of $21,000. “I haven’t told my wife about this blunder. She still doesn’t know about it,” his complaint read.
Yikes, votes to take away your wife’s Healthcare then cheat on her with a scammer you met on truth social to the toon of $21k. Chef kiss.
Maybe his wife is the scammer.
It’s not just his platform. Watch the dime-store networks that cover him. OANN, Real America, or whatever the fuck they’re called. They’ll show footage of Trump rallies right next to ads for Ivermectin, clearly obvious crypto scams, and ads you’d expect to see on some shady porn or torrent site.
Which isn’t a surprise. Trump has corralled the dumb and gullible and made it nice and easy for scammers to target en masse.
Wasn’t that the whole point of it in the first place?
Well, wouldn’t you target those fucktards if you were looking to make a quick buck?
A fool and his money.
Am pretty sure Trump is taking a cut from the scams as well… Trumps grift has no limits
Yeah I imagine it’s like an MLM / pyramid scheme. It all trickles up. And the actual “reportable” fraud occurs at a very low level that the Trump campaign cannot easily be connected to.
To be fair, this is all social media these days. Especially the ads. I use an adblock (ofc), but some of my friends and family who don’t are constantly getting baited.
Apart from lemmy, so far.
Damn good point. Sometimes forget this is a form of social media too.
“I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is” - Alphonse Capone.
I mean that’s why the owner set it up in the first place
“you get what you fucking deserve.”