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Yeah. A friend the other day put it like, 'Yeah, internet conmen are charismatic'.

I would guess that many people are well aware that 85+% of NFT hype is based on scams, money laundering, and bagholders. But their voices get drowned out.

I feel bad for the people who fall for it; I do. And I even feel a little bad for the conmen who have to live with themselves.

However, the BBC have no excuse for letting such a documentary get so far without doing basic checks on a scamcoin that was so scammy it actually got shut down, four months ago. That's egregious.

Not supporting illegal wars for oil egregious, and not quite smearing Corbyn for years egregious, just ordinary "this is what happens when you put terrible Tories in charge" second order effects.

>>mandma+(OP)
The BBC were not especially in support of the war - in fact, much of their problems stem from questioning the "dodgy dossier", resulting in the events of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry and it being made clear to them that the government and security services would not accept this criticism and would take revenge for it.

> smearing Corbyn for years egregious

This really has been egregious.

> internet conmen are charismatic

Half-baked theory, but I wonder if the prevalence of voice comms - Discord, Clubhouse and its twitter ripoff - in this space is used to enable charisma to ensnare victims.

>>mandma+(OP)
> internet conmen are charismatic

All conmen are charismatic (well, the successful ones at least), the new generations just happen to use the internet - like in any other profession.

>>toyg+t5
The word conman comes from the phrase "Confidence Man". They generally use charisma to gain the confidence of others and then exploit that confidence for personal gain.