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by imtringued 28 days ago
The problem with ads is that practically 90% of the cost of a scam is user acquisition costs and the remaining 10% are the labor needed to execute the scam.

When you consider how lucrative scams are, you will realise that the advertising budget of scams is high enough to outbid legitimate ads and since the ad platform only cares about money, they'll deliver said to you.