I'm really tired of the low level scammers on Nostr. When do we get the real high level scammers? Do we need to hit some milestone first? Begin rant. A scammer DMed me stating that they were banned from Facebook, but they used incorrect English to say who they were. They wanted to know if Nostr was really decentralized. Okay, this is up my alley. This is my time to shine. Let's talk. No biggie, I have typos all of the time. 👀 However, next when describing themselves, they said it again. If you have a high level White House reporter job, you're not going to constantly mix up correspondence and correspondent. 🤔 I looked into "her" Instagram profile. On various posts there "she" uses the correct language. 😡 Then in "dude's" Nostr profile they talk about bitcoin, crypto, and are only posting images stored on that scammer Storj token website. 🤬 C'mon meow. End rant.

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You might be onto something here. Maybe the gage to nostr adoption isn’t number of uses but instead the sophistication of scammers? The more value available to be scammed, the more sophisticated the scammer gets. This will be an interesting trend to observe.
The real pernicious scammers are the ones that come off as real people and engage with you in actual English. I was duped by one who said he needed some help and offered to pay anyone who did back with interest. Never saw those sats back. That was all I needed to no longer trust people. Probably a rookie mistake, but it was much earlier in my Nostr days so I don't beat myself up about it anymore. Learn and move on.
When you will have to loose your time by discuss with an AI made by scammers, it will not be the same ! For the moment they use tools they have, but tools are improved with time. I'm not eager to live that time yet. I don't want to become completely paranoid (even if i am a little right now). I remember 2 experiences : - one with an intrusive phone call to sell something and the operator have a computer with any answer to the victim objection (i don't have time, i am not interested...) The only purpose was to keep the victim on the line, to sell it something. And it worked for most people because it was also a physiologic battle (why are you aggressive, listen you could win something or loose a chance to win...) not only based on marketing argue. - second was a fake AI grand mother that was deploy in UK to "fight" spammer and scammer... i think this is future, AI bot to scam/spam, AI bot to protect... what energy lost for nothing in the end.
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the axiom 7 months ago
derek you are so naive if someone messages you its a scam
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