Is your intelligence insulted when some random attempts to scam you online?

Naer

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Like do i come off as that stupid? Like I would fall for some Indian dude pretending to be a 10/10 e-girl luring me into a private chat on FB

It's so blatant sometimes

Maybe I really do come off as someone vulnerable to these scams

Or these scammers simply are playing number games and they go after anyone indiscriminately

Either way the internet is silly sometimes

These scammers are sad. It's even sadder that people actually fall for these schemes

 

nakedfrog

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Not really, I think of it impersonally like you said, they're just playing the numbers game and trying to scam as many folks as they can in hopes of getting a live one. The guys that try to scam me aren't even particularly hot or anything, so at least you've got that going for you.

 

Naer

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Conversely I'm kind of flattered in a way because I suspect they think I'm loaded/ have fat wallet.

 

pete6032

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No. Scammers will scam anyone they can. They aren't specifically targeting you.

 

IronWing

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Nope, I developed a technique for dealing with this feeling. If you would like to learn more, please PM me your PayPal info and we’ll get started.

 

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lxskllr

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I don't get scammers cause I don't talk to anyone. If you aren't in my contacts, I don't hear the phone ring. If you are in my contacts, there's a good chance I still won't talk to you. Send a text or an email like a sane person :^D I do reluctantly talk to clients, but I don't want to!

edit:
Oh, and I'm not on idiotbook or any choice target platform, so nothing totally online either.

 

Red Squirrel

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No, I just laugh at them, like "haha nice try". Although sometimes I see some really smart ones and I'm like "damn... that's actually clever".

 

Torn Mind

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Persuasion, persuading, and being persuaded need not be based on reason nor measured by intellect. In fact, the art of persuasion is partially becoming seductively unreasonable.

The tactics utilized are not unique to these scammers. They are a manifestation of intellect(cue the humans who reflexive want to disagree because they consider intellect benevolent when it is "neutral" or ambivalent) and deceit.

 

dave_the_nerd

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Yeah they’re just spamming the attempts hoping somebody will fall for it; it’s not personally insulting.

It’s just sad, both because there are people who do fall for it, and there are call centers full of people who are doing it as their literal job.

 

Gizmo j

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MtnMan

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The worst of the scammers are the preachers.

 

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Greenman

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I used to blow them off until I thought about the real damage they do to people. Now I turn full blown rage machine with scam callers. They deserve nothing but hate and contempt, which I'm happy to grant them.

 

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jmagg

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If I'm not busy, I'll usually fk with them as long as possible to waste their time and get their hopes up until I get bored, then my computer (allegedly) runs out on battery. The Microsoft scam is an easy one to send them into a rage, the grandparent scam likewise.

 

Red Squirrel

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Greenman said:

I used to blow them off until I thought about the real damage they do to people. Now I turn full blown rage machine with scam callers. They deserve nothing but hate and contempt, which I'm happy to grant them.

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It's also a lot of fun to mess with them, especially the fake MS ones where they want to remote into your machine. I had setup a VM for that to string them along thinking I'm just some average user and just wasted their time. Typical dumb stuff like "what's a browser?" "Did you delete Google from my computer?" "Can you see my screen right now" (before we even setup remote stuff). Eventually would let them remote in and mess with them further. (VM was on a separate vlan)

I've since disconnected the land line so don't get those calls anymore.