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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/20 18:23, Ryland Kremeier
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would have to disagree. Considering the
amount of people who have bitcoin, and even less the amount of
people who farm it, or have farmed it before it became so
difficult. It seems much more likely that the wide-spread
infiltrations of every-day systems is for information and DDoS
over bitcoins.<br>
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I seriously doubt it’s that hard to sell information to
companies, as they most likely don’t care how you got that
information.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If information wasn’t key, whether it be
for selling to another party, or scraping that data for easy
to social engineer targets; then I also don’t think that
fraudulent calls would be so prevalent these days. Where the
main target is older people who will fall for their basic
tricks and end up losing potentially thousands per person.</p>
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Tend to agree.<br>
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Despite all the advice and mindless videos out there to help people
protect their data and/or not fall for basic scams, a lot of people
still do.<br>
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Humans' capacity to want to believe in and trust others is a strong
avenue that the scammers exploit to get paid. More so the older
folk, yes, but even the young, tech-savvy; particularly those who
have been too busy flipping between apps to realize that the
Internet can be a dangerous place. <br>
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You'd be surprised how innovative and simple these scams are, and
actually becoming less and less sophisticated, which makes them even
more dangerous.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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