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In one of the screenshots, Kitboga's fake page promises them the equivalent of $11k in BTC.

Considering a lot of these scams originate from countries with low wages and high unemployment, not really surprising people would be willing to waste a few days for the promise of a year's salary or more.



>low wages and high unemployment

Low wages sure, but high unemployment is not correct. Most scammers seem to be based in India where unemployment is around 3%.


The low wages are not enough to live a meaningful life.


Bullshit. These aren't Indian peasants. They are people with very good English skills, and at least the technical acumen to know how to use computers, and obviously some level of sales ability. There are lots of jobs in tech available for people with these skills. I'm not saying they're super high status jobs or people will get rich, but they are still able to live much better than tons of lower class people in India.

People choose to scam simply because they believe they can make more money doing so. There is also more of a "gambling" aspect to it, in that the vast majority of scammers probably make peanuts at an hourly rate, but every now and then there is a guy that will make multiple years worth of salary in a day.


And scamming grannies out of thousands of dollars is?


money buys options and gives opportunity, it by no means provides a 'meaningful life'.


I’d work for a couple of days for $11k and I live in Australia!


> Considering a lot of these scams originate from countries with low wages

Is it a faux pas to say the truth, which is Calcutta ?


Calcutta is not a country, but many of them are located in in India or Bangladesh.


I'm very much aware of the fact that Calcutta is a city. The city where most online scammers originate from. Most is the right word, not many.


Got any stats on that? Why wouldn't there be a comparable amount in Mumbai or Bengaluru or any similar large cities?


Adding onto this, from their perspective, what're their priors on (1) some crypto website is awful to navigate vs. (2) somebody is playing an incredible ruse on me? The first would obviously seem drastically more likely.




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