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by jrmg 1212 days ago
And fraudulent nutritional supplements.

And weird speech-synthesied rousing music: ‘Jim worked for a big electronics manufacturer, and had an idea. <Electronic item>s for the people. They they wouldn’t let him make it. They stole his idea and made a bad version. Now Jim is making <Electronic item>s himself that are twice as good and only a quarter the cost! Buy one to support Jim and stick it to the big evil corporation!”. How did that get to be a genre?

And “buy my video course to learn how to make thousands of dollars a day!” scams.

I find it frankly astounding how much obviously fraudulent advertising there is. Isn’t it illegal? Is there no authority that police’s it?

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I get so so many of these speech-synthesized "Don't buy solar panels! You can get them for free!" scam ads.