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ilPinguino

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kescherRant

24533

5y

The reason you're a sheepdog is that you're not a thief. Sure, it's their own fault if they still fall for this bullshit, but honestly, it's risky as shit as well.
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xalys

1896

5y

People are quite stupid by nature
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SukMikeHok

14064

5y

dude damn, this is a good idea, ill try to pull it off too i need some stacks anyway
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Fast-Nop

40304

5y

If something is too good to be true, it probably isn't true. That's how easy life is.
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kamen

7008

5y

There are flat earth believers and yet you're surprised at this?
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PonySlaystation

21841

5y

The average IQ is around 100.
So 50% have a lower IQ.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
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potata

1500

5y

You know what is worst? These scams get people that are way smarter than this...

I have a developer friend, which follows the Elon Musk. He saw the twitter ad, double checked verification, name, photos, posts but.... Never checked the actual TAG itself....

So, long story short - he's down 2 bitcoins and tried to convince me that I should send my bitcoins as it is a real deal and everything did check out....

I was the one that showed him that the account was fake and gave all the proof... Still, he didn't believe me ;(

ps. He's a very good developer, quite successful in life but this... this was the unseen monster out there...
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ilPinguino

3058

5y

@potata that's the investment effect for you right there: the more time and money you have invested into a thing, the less likely you are to give it up.
We see this in all areas of life, from waiting for a delayed bus(I could walk, but now I've been waiting for 15 minutes already) to politics(we could legalize marijuana, but we've fought for prohibition for 100 years already now).... And scammers have always been experts in applied psychology.
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Lensflare

13926

5y

@PonySlaystation that is actually a wrong conclusion. If you have nine people with an IQ of 90 each and one person with an IQ of 190, than the avarage IQ is 100 but 90% of people are below the average 🤓
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PonySlaystation

21841

5y

@Lensflare ... which would be a non-representative study. 😉
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ilPinguino

3058

5y

@PonySlaystation IQ isn't really worth anything without the proper amount of knowledge, the skills to do your work and a healthy amount of reason and discipline. And the kind of people that have these things instead of an IQ near 200 are probably way less likely to fall for a scam than the full patch mensa member who had zero experience in real life.
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PonySlaystation

21841

5y

@ilPinguino IQ is just a measurement of how quick you may be able to learn something.
It has nothing to do with knowlege.
That's a pretty harsh one on Mensa members...
A lot of them work professionally in IT or engineering and research. Others are creatives or even have normal jobs.
I have to disagree on your opinion about mensans who would be more likely to fall for such schemes, since their higher IQ highly relates to analytical thinking, which coincidentally is extremely important to not fall for fraud. 😉
A high IQ does NOT make anyone a "better" human. I know real assholes which are Mensan, others are lovely and generous. They are absolutely just normal people who can analyze things quicker...
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ilPinguino

3058

5y

@PonySlaystation note that I didn't say mensa members. I said mensa members who lack any form of practical intelligence and /or life skills.
Besides, I'm a solid 135 myself. I just don't use it as an argument because I have other things that speak for me.

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