A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already
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TL;DR: Phishing links and malicious ads are redirecting people to bogus error reporting websites, just like they did about 10 years ago, which means of course it's never been done before.
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@thegoryone said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
It's so old it's new again.
So, like fashion ?
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@timebandit Does that mean yoyos are going to be cool again?
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@raceprouk Yes, but they'll have Bluetooth so you can see on your phone how many revolution around the world you did
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@timebandit The dumb thing is, that's actually plausible
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@timebandit said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk Yes, but they'll have Bluetooth so you can see on your phone how many revolution around the world you did
Feature request for Fitbit(etc...)?
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@dcon said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@timebandit said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk Yes, but they'll have Bluetooth so you can see on your phone how many revolution around the world you did
Feature request for Fitbit(etc...)?
I might actually buy a Fitbit if they did stuff like that.
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@timebandit said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk Yes, but they'll have Bluetooth so you can see on your phone how many revolution around the world you did
I'd like to be able to +100 this one. Instead, I'll just QFT.
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@raceprouk said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@timebandit Does that mean yoyos are going to be cool again?
Yo-yos never stopped being cool.
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@no_1 said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
Yo-yos never stopped being cool.
...because they never started?
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@raceprouk said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@timebandit The dumb thing is, that's actually plausible
Quick! To the Kickstarter!
Title: World's first Digital YoYo!
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@no_1 said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@timebandit Does that mean yoyos are going to be cool again?
Yo-yos never stopped being cool.
What a chump, his YoYo is still tethered!
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@timebandit said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk Yes, but they'll have Bluetooth so you can see on your phone how many revolution around the world you did
And it will allow you to compare stats with others around the world and serve yoyo-related ads to your phone. Not only that, but you can subscribe for upgrades. Oh look, another IoT application.
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@slavdude said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
Not only that, but you
canmust subscribe for upgrades or your Yo-Yo will stop workingFTFIoT
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@raceprouk said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@timebandit Does that mean yoyos are going to be cool again?
I told a kid that he was getting scammed by fidget spinners because he's only getting half a toy.
Eh?
Put two together and put a string in the middle.
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@xaade If you think about it, really a fidget spinner is just a wireless yoyo.
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@raceprouk said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
Phishing links
Impossible! Links are always safe and never need to be looked at or examined. That's why it's totally acceptable for browsers and such to hide the status bar, shorten links and teach users to not look at links!
malicious ads
Impossible! Ads are always perfectly safe and trustworthy. Only paranoid idiots distrust ads. Or you're someone who blocks ads like a thieving sociopath Nazi who wants to anally rape content creators!
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@tsaukpaetra said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@timebandit The dumb thing is, that's actually plausible
Quick! To the Kickstarter!
Title: World's first Digital YoYo!
What DRM are we going to use? Pay us the monies monthly or it stops spinning.
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@polygeekery
Why bother with DRM. Once you have the kickstarter money, just send everyone novelty dime store yo-yos, disappear with the money and leave a cryptic message suggesting the digital expansion for the yo-yo is on the way as future DLC.
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@izzion said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@polygeekery
Why bother with DRM. Once you have the kickstarter money, just send everyone novelty dime store yo-yos, disappear with the money and leave a cryptic message suggesting the digital expansion for the yo-yo is on the way as future DLC.Why bother shipping. Just send everyone a link to a webpage that's just a picture of a yo-yo hooked up to fa-spin, and and oscillating up/down motion.
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@lorne-kates said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@izzion said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@polygeekery
Why bother with DRM. Once you have the kickstarter money, just send everyone novelty dime store yo-yos, disappear with the money and leave a cryptic message suggesting the digital expansion for the yo-yo is on the way as future DLC.Why bother shipping. Just send everyone a link to a webpage that's just a picture of a yo-yo hooked up to fa-spin, and and oscillating up/down motion.
Now you're thinking enterprise grade. We would only have to update the software in one place.