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Want to Make Millions? Copy Someone’s Cryptocurrency Project (buzzfeed.com)
3 points by minimaxir on March 9, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


From just the past week:

1. Tons of Twitter impersonation scams asking to send BTC/ETH for money in return (aka Nigerian Prince scam).

2. A project that straight up plagiarized and then used a picture of Ryan Gosling as one of their "founding members", along with an Asian guy named "Tyrone Fountain".

3. Scam websites exploiting unicode characters in URLs (screenshot evidence: https://i.redd.it/vo09n565f4h01.jpg).

I know people hate regulation, but... this is why humans can't have nice things.




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