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So here's something from the India Menace Thread that I wanted to bring up here, because it involves Boomers and their ignorance. The TL;DW is that Matt Walsh recently did a video about how "everything is fake nowadays", and one of the segments of his show talks about how a senior citizen lost all of his money due to an online romance scam. Don't get me wrong, I'm fucking sick and tired of getting spam emails and texts from turd-world scammers, but at the end of the day, it takes two to tango. I want to empathize with Boomer grampa here for having his money drained by someone who presumably shits in the streets -- but come on, man! I think the bigger picture here is how Boomers are so damn gullible and technologically inept.
Again, look: I feel bad for this poor widower for losing it all. But that doesn't change the fact that he foolishly escalated the conversation with the stranger that ultimately had him giving them access to his investment accounts and taking all of his money. Hell, if my wife died and I received a random text message from the most attractive woman on the planet (assuming she's actually real) and she wanted me to pay her thousands of dollars so I can make more money, I'd say, "Yeah right. Get lost, lady."
This isn't an isolated case, either. Why do you think Kitboga infamously impersonated an elderly woman in his video heard around the world? Why do stores like Hobby Lobby have warning signs at the register informing customers to not buy gift cards for strangers? I had friends who worked for large retail chains, and they told me that on a daily basis they would have elderly customers come in and purchase a bunch of gift cards for strangers over the internet, and that it was one of the saddest things they've ever seen.
You constantly hear sob stories about 60+ Boomers getting catfished on facebook and unknowingly sending their entire savings to romance scammers, despite the scam victims being married. There was a fairly recent story similar to Matt Walsh's video, except the man wasn't a widower -- he was just some married Boomer who had a house with his wife, and then randomly decided to drain his bank account for some shitskin in a foreign country who masqueraded as a supermodel that wanted to "marry him". It's not just men, either: last year some old woman in the U.K. sent her savings to a Brad Pitt deepfake account on social media.
It really does take two to tango.
Again, look: I feel bad for this poor widower for losing it all. But that doesn't change the fact that he foolishly escalated the conversation with the stranger that ultimately had him giving them access to his investment accounts and taking all of his money. Hell, if my wife died and I received a random text message from the most attractive woman on the planet (assuming she's actually real) and she wanted me to pay her thousands of dollars so I can make more money, I'd say, "Yeah right. Get lost, lady."
This isn't an isolated case, either. Why do you think Kitboga infamously impersonated an elderly woman in his video heard around the world? Why do stores like Hobby Lobby have warning signs at the register informing customers to not buy gift cards for strangers? I had friends who worked for large retail chains, and they told me that on a daily basis they would have elderly customers come in and purchase a bunch of gift cards for strangers over the internet, and that it was one of the saddest things they've ever seen.
You constantly hear sob stories about 60+ Boomers getting catfished on facebook and unknowingly sending their entire savings to romance scammers, despite the scam victims being married. There was a fairly recent story similar to Matt Walsh's video, except the man wasn't a widower -- he was just some married Boomer who had a house with his wife, and then randomly decided to drain his bank account for some shitskin in a foreign country who masqueraded as a supermodel that wanted to "marry him". It's not just men, either: last year some old woman in the U.K. sent her savings to a Brad Pitt deepfake account on social media.
It really does take two to tango.
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