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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2020_IC3Report.pdf

    This isn’t really an age thing, if you look at stats. Yes, the older age groups both have more victims and larger losses than younger people. But the victim count isn’t so much lower that you can just brush it off as people being senile. Or are all the gen x and millennial victims senile too?

    A lot of scams can fall into one of two categories. Scare people and activate their fight or flight mode (locked computer, threaten to have the cops show up, etc) and the second prey on poor people (send us money to authorize this big payment to you, buy this penny stock that we totally didn’t pump before, etc)