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One of the most depressing things about growing up is that you learn how so much of life is about drawing the short straw. The world can be a pretty unfair place, and what's worse is that many of these problems are hiding in plain sight. If you sit down and really think about it, it can seem like the whole thing is one big grift . This seems to be the conclusion of a thread started by @ackocher , which asked about everything that is a scam, but isn't obvious about it. People quickly identified …

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Scammers are getting more and more banal. In the days of yore, they pretended to be Nigerian princes, literal royalty, in order to get money from the most vulnerable and gullible people they could possibly scam. Now, scammers are so boring. They pretend to be family members in need of money. They make fake Venmo accounts with your name and face on them, and Venmo requests your friends and family $400 for “grocery money” The glamour and theatrics that once defined the online scammer industry hav…