Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch. I’ll pour one out for these poor souls. Ha!
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.
Synonymous with radiation therapy, I guess…
Think of it this way: the scammers could be targeting a less shitty group of people instead.
Actually, that helps.
Also, the scammers, despite who they are scamming, are still probably ideologically aligned with Trump. They just know they can cheat the ones they understand most easily.
More likely they’re aligned with the same ideology that Trump is: self enrichment at the expense of everyone else.
They probably only see Trump as a useful concentration point for easy targets.
It reminds me of that online cheating website that turned out to just be men getting scammed by fake accounts. They have it coming.
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.
That’s absolutely correct. MLMs make you buy their shitty products at steep prices and leave it to you to sell the rest at even more outragous prices. Once you bought their product, in bulk, at markup, they made a profit.
They dont give a fuck if you can sell it or not. You bought it, now you’re stuck with this useless shit.
Trump and company are doing something similar with ideas. Believe these words, no matter how horrible and bad they are, even if you’re loved ones vehemetly disagree with you, even if it will destroy democracy and hurt several vulnerable populations of people… believe us no matter what. Get invested beyond reason and stay angry even if it ruins your life.
They’re basically sucking the happiness out of people and then blaming x, y, and z groups for it.
It’s genuinely disturbing.
It’s true; they’re like a MLM company whose products are grievances and resentment.
Truth Social Users Are
LosingRidiculousSums of Money to Scamsftfy Gizmodo
Truth Social Users Are Losing
Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams
A fool and his money are soon parted.
You can tell that this is an AI generated image because the hands are so small.
And the face is so orange… And old… And that ridiculous hair - a person like that couldn’t actually exist
That’s great. I’d rather have them getting scammed than them donating that money to their Nazi party
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?
How many of those AREN’T bots?
How many trump family members are still alive and don’t hate Donald?
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.
“Communists”
They mean the people who originally coded Lemmy, who are Marxist-Leninist communists. (Hence why they chose .ml for lemmy.ml.)
lemmy is more like 45k monthly active
But almost no bots
Lololololol
Good point.
Subtract the number of scammed people from that total and you’ll have your answer 👍
And of the ones that aren’t bots, how many are scammers and their sockpuppets?
I guess its not actually all bots if there is money being sold after all
I have found nothing is easier than separating a boomer and their money…well other than your mother.
I’m a boomer and I approve of this message.
I am your mother and I approve of it as well
I can’t wait to see how the republicans will blame this on the democrats
Got’em!
can you separate a boomer and my mother? her new husband is clearly abusive but adult protective services won’t do anything about it
Have you tried fucking his mother?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Good. Fuck ‘em.
Truth Social and churches: name a better place to find gullible victims.
Trump rallies.
They’re the same picture.
My favourite quote from the article
Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
It’s almost like it was designed specifically for that.
Fish in a barrel.
Exactly what I came to say, truth social is what is called a “target rich environment”
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.
It sounds like those pig butchering scams.
Nice to see them use their mental gymnastics skills for something other than Qanon lol
$500,000…just…wow…
When their world revolves around feels, emotion, “common sense*”, and education is portrayed as bad, they are far easier marks than someone who views un-vetted and too-good-to-be-true opportunities with a logical eye.
*common sense is just another substitute for rejecting actual education and knowledge. “This is the right thing to do because common sense feels right” rather than investigating and making sure of what is right.
grifters know their marks
“With truth social, you don’t have to know your marks.”
-Truth Social marketing materials.maybe but that site is a perfect breeding ground for them
