New documents reveal Donald Trump’s social media platform is a hotbed of online fraud, with swindlers conning users out of enormous sums of money.
  • jeffw@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 month ago

    Plot twist: it’s just one user and he’s ripping them off by asking for donations to his campaign

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      No, there is that, but this is not all that organized. It’s easy to say ha ha, boomers dumb, but it’s wild to think of how crypto schemes have shifted potentially billions of imaginary wealth into the real pockets of randos

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    55·
    1 month ago

    Truth Social’s seemingly target-rich environment is also home to romantic relationship scams, including one 72-year-old man reporting that, after chatting with a “beautiful” woman on the app, he was fleeced out of $21,000. “I haven’t told my wife about this blunder. She still doesn’t know about it,” his complaint read.

    Yikes, votes to take away your wife’s Healthcare then cheat on her with a scammer you met on truth social to the toon of $21k. Chef kiss.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      Yeah I imagine it’s like an MLM / pyramid scheme. It all trickles up. And the actual “reportable” fraud occurs at a very low level that the Trump campaign cannot easily be connected to.

  • Jagothaciv@kbin.earth
    15·
    1 month ago

    So are his rallys. Every rally he posts qr codes for land scams and other devious and scammy shit like Trump Bibles. The dude is a walking plague.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    It’s not just his platform. Watch the dime-store networks that cover him. OANN, Real America, or whatever the fuck they’re called. They’ll show footage of Trump rallies right next to ads for Ivermectin, clearly obvious crypto scams, and ads you’d expect to see on some shady porn or torrent site.

    Which isn’t a surprise. Trump has corralled the dumb and gullible and made it nice and easy for scammers to target en masse.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    Good. The more money the swindlers take, the less those idiots can waste on Donalds campaign funding.

    And maybe, just maybe the one or other learns a lesson from this.

  • odelik@lemmy.today
    11·
    1 month ago

    I’m not surprised.

    Have you seen the scammers on other social media platforms? MLM schemes, love scams, charging a fuck-to of money to teach people how to write entry letters to casino sweepstakes for “free” online casino coins.

    I can only imagine what a place that starts with gathering together people that view life as a zero-sum game develops for scamming and ripping people off.

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 month ago

    I wonder what, if anything, will by done about this by those in charge of the app.

    Depending on how many “users” are actually scammers, a deletion of such accounts would lead to a decreased user count. Considering Dementia Don’s obsession with bigly numbers, such an action would probably upset him. Besides, as other social media sites have proven, deleting scammer accounts without doing anything to deter them would simply become a game of whack-a-mole.

    Highlighting tips to avoid scammers is what a lot of companies would do. But this is “Truth Social.” Informing their users in order to protect them from scams would give away their own game. (Or do nothing, since so many of these users are already too gullible to function.)

    Even before any of that, taking action requires admitting that they have a problem, which doesn’t fit into the modern GOP handbook.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Depending on how many “users” are actually scammers, a deletion of such accounts would lead to a decreased user count.

      Just include suspended accounts when publishing user counts. Like how Trump leaves his shoes on when he gets measured for a physical so people will think he’s actually 6’3".