I don’t think it’s even possible to calculate how much real money was lost to this stuff.
Did the average person/average internet user fall for it? No.
Did the people who fell for it get sucked into what was basically a cult that sucked the money out of a decent amount of people? Yeah.
The numbers for some of these scam projects were honestly insane.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 months ago
sab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, probably my filter bubble then.
I’d like to read more about this, do you know of any specific cases?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If you have time, I would suggest CoffeeZilla on YouTube. He basically just get into crypto scam, which isn’t hard to find these days. One specific case I would look at is the influencers taking on pretty much any scam projects to get money. The series is with Oompaville. A great watch.