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      Hey, its me Elong Musk. twottef owner and tesla

      I am lost my wallet and need some help buying train ticket home.

      Please send me 20 doller google play gift card and when I am home I will repay you million dollars. I will be very graceful

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        In serious, scammers typically make it fake as shit since the people most likely to be scammed are going to overlook it anyways.

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          I have read that scammers try to make the scams look fake and crappy because they don’t want to entice any actually clever people - that’s more trouble than it’s worth. These are simple.scams for simple people.

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          Hi Mom! I was coming home from Mike’s and some guy mugged me, and I had the rent money in my pocket! Can you Venmo me $900 real quick? My new email is best.moms.son@gμail.com. I’ll pay you back next Friday when I get paid! Love you!

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        1 year ago

        I got one about as good as that on reddit. I received a series of DMs saying that I could, for $200, get a card recognizing my membership in the Elon Musk fan club.

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      They make it blatantly fake on purpose to weed out the more intelligent people who are less likely to fall for a scam. The scammers don’t want to spend hours reeling someone one in by appearing legitimate, only for the person to disengage at the first sign of a scam. They’d rather just filter those people out right away with something blatantly fake, and the people who are left are the ones susceptible to being scammed.

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      There are a lot of legitimate reasons someone might be a victim of one of these scams that aren’t the result of them being stupid, I don’t see any reason to encourage this crap

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      There’s plenty of vulnerable and not terribly IT literate people out there who are ripe for falling for these sorts of things. Never root for the scammers.