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by Steeeve 3225 days ago
If you're an NBA player, you spread the word about gold digger scams. If you're midlevel management you spread the word about timeshare scams. If you're a retiree, you spread the word about tech support scams. If you are a techie, you spread the word about blockchain investment scams because we're the target market for those scams.

Scammers do their best to associate themselves with our communities because positive discussion at a place like hackernews is seen as "well, all those smart techies trust it..."