i think every single member of my immediate family that buys into the right wing grift and conspiracy bullshit has also gotten horrendously and repeatedly scammed in recent years wonder if those two things share a correlation at all

Reading this gives a sense of why those lists would be valuable to the wrong people. Many of these scams aren't even that complicated, and includes a guy who got scammed on a different site only to be scammed out of $170k by someone on TS saying she can get his money back gizmodo.com/truth-social...

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams

Read the complaints submitted to the FTC by users of Donald Trump's social media platform.

I think I'm being scammed by someone. I told them I don't have money, and they said they won't ask for much as money isn't important. I said "I see" and they said "Alright, I'll manage with my precious art skills or surprise you amazingly".

While I have not found any fraudulent GFMs I have found a few Gazans themselves being scammed- by receivers charging fees or people offering to promote for them for a fee etc. I always think a good question to ask is how often they are receiving the money and if they pay anything to the receiver

I got scammed by someone so I have to make a kofi to get all of my money back. all kofi commissions sketches will be 5 dollars ko-fi.com/nathanlyon Note very much a beginner artist & this is my first time opening commissions so please go easy on me. The goal is 315 dollars so please understand.

How not to get scammed on freelance platforms #Tech#Technology#TechNews

How not to get scammed on freelance platforms

At a time when industries everywhere seem like they're gradually eliminating the concept of an employee and all the pesky rights and obligations that title confers, an increasing number of white collar...

So yes, I got scammed out of about $1000. Because I’m stupid. Because I’m naïve or whatever. But the point is, they dragged my dead mother into this when I called them out on it. So. That’s it. It’s on.

a little girl is smiling in front of a burning house with the words hmmmm written on the bottom

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I do apologize for not making my wording more clear. I meant to highlight the dangers of thinking that we’re too smart to get scammed.

I've suddenly been friended by a bunch of bots, podcasts, "businesses", and people claiming to be from Gaza with donation links in their bios and not much else. I've already been scammed twice donating to someone escaping Gaza, only for it to be a scam. The enshittification of Bluesky has begun.

i bought a condo, i wonder if that counts as getting scammed lol