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634-5789

(4,227 posts)
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 02:50 PM 6 hrs ago

Best Read of the Day: Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams

WOW.

If you were a scammer, who would you think might be the easiest marks on the planet, ready to believe anything a conman might say? If you said Trump supporters, you’re clearly not alone.

It is the perfect watering hole for predators:

Truth Social, with its older user base of Boomers who have access to a lifetime of savings and retirement accounts, appears to be an attractive target for scammers running pig butchering operations.

And these are not just penny-ante scams. The losses suffered by some of these marks are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, including: $500,000 from someone in Minnesota; $170,000, from another in Tennessee; $168,000 from another in New York, and the list goes on and on.

I highly recommend that you read the article, as it is a fascinating glimpse into another, overlooked and underreported aspect of the collateral carnage unleashed upon the MAGAs by the very false-messiah they hold so dear.

https://gizmodo.com/truth-social-users-are-losing-ridiculous-sums-of-money-to-scams-2000506604

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Best Read of the Day: Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams (Original Post) 634-5789 6 hrs ago OP
If you can't see through someone like The Great Orange One Gaugamela 6 hrs ago #1
Hey!!! I am a Boomer. No lifetime of savings and money, but I do have a niyad 6 hrs ago #2
So many people believe the scammers mercuryblues 4 hrs ago #3
I tried, I really tried. I thought if I sat down and really tried, I might be able to work up a little sympathy for brewens 4 hrs ago #4

Gaugamela

(2,548 posts)
1. If you can't see through someone like The Great Orange One
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 02:58 PM
6 hrs ago

you'll fall for about anything. I don't know how these people made it past their twenties.

niyad

(118,401 posts)
2. Hey!!! I am a Boomer. No lifetime of savings and money, but I do have a
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 03:05 PM
6 hrs ago

fully-functioning brain, and a lifelong ability to spot cons and charlatans.

mercuryblues

(14,838 posts)
3. So many people believe the scammers
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 04:44 PM
4 hrs ago

and trump are separate entities. I would not be surprised if trump was getting a cut of the money.

brewens

(15,228 posts)
4. I tried, I really tried. I thought if I sat down and really tried, I might be able to work up a little sympathy for
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 04:56 PM
4 hrs ago

these morons. Nope. LOL

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