| I shouldn't, but sometimes I play along just to see what the scam looks like. Last time I did this, it took three days of texting my new friend before it was finally clear that what she really wanted more than anything was to teach me to trade cryptocurrency. Once, I thought I had her, because she spelled D&D like: D&D, but she played it off real cool and just explained that her English isn't that great so she used translation software. In retrospect I think that all of her probing questions about my Svirfneblin cleric were because she later intended call him up and teach him to trade cryptocurrency. I like to think he's in some scammer's database now, causing confusion. He'd like that too. Once I understood what she was after, I explained that my problem with cryptocurrency was that it resembled money too closely and really what I'd like to do with blockchains is to do away with money in favor of something entirely different. Her training dataset had not prepared her for this conversation, so it was quite clear when her human handler took over. They were very rude, unlike their AI pet, and tried to bully me into sharing other people's contact info, which is when I lost interest. |