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Branden McEuen@bmceuen.bsky.social |
It will always baffle me how we as a society have just let scammers ruin so many parts of our daily lives. We cannot take phone calls anymore, emails and texts are flooded with scams, and social media directs you to scam sites for everything from forever stamps to kids toys.
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Owen
@oweniverson.bsky.social
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I read something in the past couple years that was like spam emails are STILL a $700 BILLION+ industry. as long as people keep getting tricked, it's gonna continue I'm trying to train my parents to just never answer their phones or reply to emails :(
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MU-RDDOQ
@aaroncollom.bsky.social
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my dad telling me "buyer beware" during the nineties makes me believe the tolerance for scams was always there to enable how bad it has become
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Fellow Member of Your Preferred In-Group
@immaculatepizza.bsky.social
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Hard not to see this as a natural consequence of maintaining Free Enterprise as one of our greatest values. How much of our society is organized around the concerns of business owners? How many totally fake enterprises take shelter in a political culture defined by those values?
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Blarghalt
@blarghalt.bsky.social
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Joe Biden could go on television tomorrow, announce to the world that he was going to start drone striking spam callers and borders would not stop him, and the reaction by Americans to this gross overreach of executive power would be to repeal the 22nd Amendment
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Chris Broome
@cabroome.bsky.social
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We are truly living in Ajit Pai’s promised utopia
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@donch-eadle.bsky.social
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The ads on YouTube are blatant scams at this point too
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Mike Snider
@mikesnider.bsky.social
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Job-searching has also become a total minefield of scams, dishonest data-gathering, and candidate manipulation. Rather than addressing this, platforms strive for irrelevant progress indicators and actually help perpetuate the issue.
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Martin #509
@martin509.bsky.social
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The zeitgeist of the 2020s is gambling, scamming and get-rich-quick schemes like we're back in the fucking 1920s again
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El Gato Astronomico
@astrocat.bsky.social
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I mean I think it's this country working as intended - unchecked capitalism demands maximum profit, and maximum profit is selling something to someone with zero costs to you. It's why slavery was incredibly popular for so long. And it fits with conservative ideas about how society should be, if/
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Mark Finch
@katzenfinch.bsky.social
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For a brief glorious period technology actually made life easier. It’s jumped the shark in a big way — I keep my phone on silent, filter my email, and block numbers that send me spammy texts. I got scammed by a Facebook ad and don’t take them seriously now, and will never advertise on that platform.
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Elliot Sperber
@elliotsperber.bsky.social
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I don’t think I can name an institution in this society that’s not fundamental a scam
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Mike Wilson
@mkwilson27.bsky.social
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Money before people. It’s as American as apple pie.
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Anders Hermansen
@mansen.bsky.social
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And when presented with proof of obvious scams, websites like Facebook and Twitter will tell you they didn't break any rules (cause they pay for advertisement)
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r
@recombobulating.bsky.social
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It's because of a meta scam that means everyone believes they're uniquely immune and only the inferior will ever get harmed.
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Scott Fybush
@fybush.bsky.social
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As bad as my dad's final couple of years were going to be anyway, the added touch of scammers on the phone and computer preying on his dementia was really just that one extra bit I completely didn't need.
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Electrichead
@electrichead.bsky.social
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Every time I see an ad anywhere on the internet of something I actually might want, if it's not just a fuckin Amazon link or whatever but some bespoke site, I have to spend an hour researching if it's real or not. I hate it.
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Project Azar
@projectazar.com
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I work in the consumer protection space. It is so incredibly bad out there in absolutely every sector, and there are woefully few enforcers available. We could increase the staff of every consumer protection division of every AGO in this country and still have more work than people.
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Mo
@moinqueens.bsky.social
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scams and fraud are the only lasting legacies of big tech. so much of what's online is bs
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George Frankly!
@georgefrankly.bsky.social
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we've turned human lives into a min-maxed capitalist rat race where everybody is trying to find the fastest way to make enough money to stop suffering and now every avenue of communication is drowned out by people loudly trying to make fast, shitty money yet again, everything turns to grift
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Under Construction
@guerillawarlock.bsky.social
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Feel like its less we/society and more a decision made by the political class to just not enforce consumer stuff (and other things), and every election being "the most important in our lifetime" kinda results in voters are pressured into not pressuring their electeds
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Patrick Ziselberger
@ziselberger.com
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Plus podcasts and other "advertiser supported" media are all really "scam-supported" media. The number of podcasts that are advertising "betterhelp.com" is annoying.
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John Gordon
@johngordon.bsky.social
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Do you know what happened to the caller ID fixes we were supposed to get? Did I hallucinate all the promises of caller validation? I suspect that answer would explain a lot.
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Notorious BRT
@notoriousbrt.bsky.social
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The sheer energy that goes into not getting f***ed while going about daily life is staggering.
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@angelaisms.bsky.social
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I’m pretty sure I received a wrong number scam text today. As with most scams, the people they’re aiming to hurt are the ones most likely to offer courtesy to a stranger. It’s pretty gross.
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Brian DeViteri
@bsbeamer.bsky.social
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Exactly why the “let’s deregulate everything” argument is not well thought out.
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Queen Gwenevere
@queengwenevere.bsky.social
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I think this is less “we as a society” and more “corporations that can do whatever they want regardless of what we as a society want.” Because NOBODY wants this crap. Except the scammers and corporations who can profit from them. (Like Google blithely allowing scam ads because it’s more ad money.)
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Tim
@7amkickoff.com
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The last president of the united states is one of the biggest single scam artists of all time.
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War Hater
@rainbowbody.bsky.social
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Wells Fargo sold our mortgage and I didn't believe the emails from the new company.
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kylie4Bob
@kayfourbee.bsky.social
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I'm honestly starting to feel like a rube for not doing frauds
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Annie B Kay
@anniebkay.bsky.social
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This should be a major Biden initiative. Cracking down on cyber & other fraud. It’s getting so so bad, and sophisticated.
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David
@david.uncensored.zip
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to me the bigger problems is how unreliable ordering online from Walmart or Amazon is. Its very difficult to tell who is actually making the product and who is shipping it to you, and what the quality of the product even is.
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Laen
@laencleardale.bsky.social
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Online ads are...I don't even know the word. I get maybe, maybe 1% of ads are for actual products not scams.
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wishda
@wishda.bsky.social
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A lot of this would be solved by a secure, government-backed way to exchange money online with robust ID verification and fraud prevention. Teach people that it is the only safe way to send money, and the scammers have to expose themselves to a risk of federal charges to operate on it.
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Babsbeaty
@babsbeaty.bsky.social
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I lost my job and in researching ACA policies, I mistakenly entered my phone number on a scam site. My phone began ringing within seconds. And didn’t stop for days. I ended up turning my ringer off. I got over 100 calls one day.
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@fleezlow.bsky.social
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What's also baffling is how much of a layup it would be for any politician at any level to go after all these scams. I understand that the scammers, and more often, the companies that benefit indirectly from the scam activity are donors, but people hate all this soooo much!
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Brandon Doughan 🍶
@brandondoughan.bsky.social
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There’s no challenge in this- four year olds are notoriously easy to scam
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Untitled Goose Name 🏳️⚧️
@goosname.bsky.social
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i mean, it was a lot harder to scam people out of money when they had to pay in person or mail a check. with online payment now, it’s easier than ever
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Noah Frank
@noahafrank.bsky.social
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And it’s being mirrored by the large-scale scams at the other end (crypto, NFTs, OpenAI). An economy built on scams, all the way down.
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Wattle of Bits 🏳️🌈
@wattle.bsky.social
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The entire Republican Party is a scam
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ADK
@andrewdk.bsky.social
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We only care about the cops that beat up kids
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In Da' Indica!
@indaindica.bsky.social
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I guess that's the issue with letting capitalism advance to a point where literally eveything sounds like a scam these days. Bullshit fatigue.
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tim "fim titz" fitzzz
@timfitz.bsky.social
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If should be possible to separate free expression from fraud, but we have made absolutely no attempt to do so. I think it starts with Fox News, which has mainstreamed dishonesty, because those with the power to change it are also in a very tough position if they were to try to directly address it
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Mark
@marksimploding.bsky.social
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Digital companies are making 30% or higher margins. But whatever. Stocks going up, am i right ya’all? Im just a dumb guy.
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Chase Burke
@cburke.bsky.social
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My email is basically a giant junk drawer where I either need the last thing put in there, or I am searching for something from years ago. How much energy is wasted on sending and storing garbage that human eyes will never see?
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