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Discussion on: 🤑🥳😎Going down the youtube tech guru hole or how you can spot scam artists

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techPackets • Edited

"From knowing nothing about development to becoming a millionaire in 30+ hours. Sorry but that is not reasonable for 99% of people." - I think it's unreasonable for 100% of the people. Just setting up everything took me 30+ hours when I was a newbie let alone getting down to writing some code.

Most of the social media campaigns target newbies who have zero knowledge of the industry and eventually they end up buying the product :)

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

Yes you can see that scam in a lot of things

For example "onecoin"

Just google "onecoin scam"

juicy story :D

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

Yes, it is amazing how people are still behind that scam.

But yeah I think once you believe in that lie it is hard to change your mind after someone is telling you that you lost your money and the money of your family.

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Filip Ilić

They do it always in new places(ex. new country or even city). They had a conference in my city and my frend being aware of their scam asked me to go with him to learn how they scam people. It was hilarius watching them jumping with examples of succes on one guy who seemed interested.