[0xDEAFBEAD]

They also prey on the lonely. The big new thing in scamming is "pig butchering". Make friends with someone online, gradually persuade them you're a genius crypto trader, get them depositing funds to a "crypto trading platform", number goes up, get them depositing more funds... then pull the rug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QhMqoTNSl8

I remember when I was young in the early 2000s, the internet was a place you could make friends. These pig butchering scammers are working to wreck what little social fabric the internet has left.

[chneu]

That's not a new thing at all. Most successful scams have been around for centuries in one form or another. They just get renamed/brought back up when new technology gets involved.