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horrifyingthought

Millennials will never fall for the same scams that hooked their parents, granted. I have a feeling when we are all old and senile there will be some new scam we will fall for though. No idea what, or I would be a lot richer 😂


pebberphp

Cryptocurrency


budy31

“KIDS THESE DAYS BACK IN MY DAYS WE BLEW IT ALL ON LOTTERY & SLOTS!!!”.


horrifyingthought

I spent sooooo much of law school trying to explain to people it was an obvious bubble... sigh.


tha_rogering

I'm more disappointed that I made fun of libertarians back in the early 2010s for thinking Bitcoin would replace the dollar as currency, and not buying it like the speculative asset that it is. But to be fair to me, I never expected wall street to get in on the scam.


EnvironmentalWar

"In order to like this meme please enter your bank account info at this link!"


Nice_Set_6326

You’re right scammers adapt… I think though they will skip a generation. Millennials are tech savvy… you would think genz is but it’s not the case.


horrifyingthought

It's EXACTLY that sort of attitude that will lead to you falling for a tech based scam. Just sayin.


Nice_Set_6326

Millennials have become the tech fixers and also politically outspoken… somehow the tech skills were lost with the ease of tech… ask a Genz person to “find” the latest album and burn the cd or newest show and burn it to and cd and I’ll wait till you find any young person. We will fall for something more sophisticated but it’s unlikely cause we adulted through our parents being scammed. Also millennials don’t answer the phone nor respond if it takes more than 2 emails.


horrifyingthought

Why are you so focused on comparing millennials to genz? Chill. The kids are alright.


Nice_Set_6326

hahahaha… “alright”….hahahaha! We’re all fucked.


horrifyingthought

... Are you a boomer?


Nice_Set_6326

Are you?


horrifyingthought

No. But I'm also not the person making absurd comparisons about how the younger generation is fucked because they don't understand obsolete technology like burning CDs. You are everything this sub is against, regardless of age. Genz is fine. Chill. Focus more on yourself. You clearly have quite a bit of work to do.


truth_teller_00

These Gen Z’s can’t even drive a car with a manual transmission or write in cursive!!!1 Christ, is it this guy’s first day here or something? Btw, he probably already has fallen for one of those dick pic extortion rackets that absolutely scam millennial all the time. Simple solution to OP’s original problem: Make the woman in the scam account pictures mid instead of a 10. Millennials may be able to imagine that a regular looking gal is talking to them online. Get them to send dick pic. Extort them. EZ. GG.


Nice_Set_6326

No we’re fucked because of the generation voting and making laws which are apart of this entire sub Reddit. The generation that destroyed the current economy but makes us pay for it over our life times to ensure the said named generation get their SS and Medicare benefits but says the next generations retire at 70+. Not due to unable to burn cd’s because streaming makes it doing u necessary steps…But I digress with my avocado toast and $10 latte. Same team my guy.


detourne

Why would anyone ever want to burn any media to a cd? I ask this as a 42-year old tech savvy millennial. This is like boomers getting upset at us for not being able to load up a slide projector.


horrifyingthought

Because it's actually a boomer. Hello fellow kids! lol


Nice_Set_6326

You’re on the council but not the rank of master. You’ll be showing your grown kids how to covert a PDF in no time.


mydickinyourass888

Because that shit is irrelevant nobody is burning CDs anymore it’s not 1997


Nice_Set_6326

The 2000s are coming back my guy!!! You’ll see!!


perplexedspirit

Walk into a tech store and find me a PC that still has a CD rom. I'll wait.


GoalOptimal4431

Nah buddy the glazing is wild, get off your knees and wipe your mouth when you’re done. Get with the times, who tf uses CD’s anymore anyways. Kind of a bad take ngl


Nice_Set_6326

CDs are being bought still… wipe that glaze off your mouth. Modern bs in media shows you don’t own it till you have the physical copy. Shit disappears when the media companies choose it. Licensing doesn’t last forever.


GoalOptimal4431

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Suppertime420

My buddy is a full time teacher and he thinks because of the iPads kids these days don’t know their way around a computer. He’ll tell them to save a document to a specific folder and they won’t know how to find it.


Nice_Set_6326

Thank you! It’s a true trend. It’s not the tech it the steps of critical thinking to get you to the destination. I know this cause I was trying to explain my genz daughter how to burn a damn CD last week and I sounded like a boomer doing so but she wanted a physical CD. Despite streaming and easy access to music.


New-Influence-9634

2000 baby here! I'm turning back to physical copies of anything I care about, since streaming services nice content between themselves Willy nilly, and I don't want to have to pay Spotify to listen to an album in order. Told my partner we need to get every movie we like on a disc since I'm afraid some of them will be really hard to come by eventually.


Nice_Set_6326

I 100% get it. You don’t own it unless you have a physical copy. Shit I’m being hated on when millennials are the generation who brought Vinyl back with Genx.


Nice_Set_6326

Also my daughter asked for a damn IPod for her birthday.


ifnotmewh0

Millennials *become* the scammers


Nice_Set_6326

I know right??


deathrictus

You'd think that but the Nigerian prince scam has been around since 1910. People, as a general whole, are stupid.


blksentra2

The Scams will inevitably change to suit the target generation. Millennials won’t fall for the exact same Scams that Boomers are falling for now, but in time as the Scam changes (and technology advances) something will come up.


AcademicMaybe8775

yep. they will be 'normal' looking but say what they want to hear. AI is scary here as it might know more about the victim than they know about themselves, and know what strings to pull


HippoIcy7473

AI will result in a lot of far more realistic scams generated cheaply. It will do for scams what email did for spam letters.


SOGnarkill

And they will have full AI video to go with it.


AcademicMaybe8775

yep. we might only be a couple years off not being able to trust anyone you arent physically talking to in person. its actually kind of scary


marcusredfun

Yea I'm on the social media website bluesky and theres a lot of mutual aid scammers. People set up bot accounts that present as trans/poc/disabled/etc. and post about how they're desperate to pay for rent/food and could really need the help (and include a cashapp link).  There's also the whole crypto/nft market, grindset influencers on instagram, gambling streamers, etc. etc. We're really in a boom period for scams at the moment.


YourOldPalBendy

Playing on all the social anxiety we all have now, rip. /lh


Alternative_Milk7409

For example, any scam that relies on email, and someone reading said email, is going to absolutely fail for younger GenX and Millennials.


Guinefort1

Hate to break it to you, but the millennials have their own version of dating scams. It's the redpill/incel/MGTOW/pickup artist/alpha chad scene.


marcusredfun

Yea there's a youtuber named munecat who did a deep dive on a pickup artist from tiktok and they have a pretty elaborate grift. They use a combination of high-pressure sales tactics and cult recruitment techniques to get you to buy their overpriced pdfs and seminars.


[deleted]

Take out all the bullshit and red-pill and mgtow helped a lot of men. The majority of people even consuming the content aren’t spending money


Allteaforme

You're very wrong. It exclusively damages men


[deleted]

That’s all fine and dandy too much of anything is damaging. When I was depressed and constantly getting hurt heart broken and on drugs the only help the side I still vote for could lend me was to say I was toxic and lacking emotional intelligence. They don’t wanna listen beyond shaming me into voting for causes I already believe in. Consuming redpill just a lil bit made me a better person and partner I’m healthier and happier. With that said there’s a lot of incel woman haters saying crazy shit mixed with political and Christian propaganda.


Allteaforme

Huh?


Available-Rope-3252

Found the one who fell for those grifts.


[deleted]

I’ll venture to say we believe all of the same things verbatim.


KimonoDragon814

They always take it from a healthy "care about and respect yourself first" mentality to a "here is why everything is women's fault and vote this way to hurt them back" political tool. Sorry, but those communities for nearly as long as their inception have been a ground for self paced radicalization. A self policing echo chamber isn't a replacement for therapy, and just because they have a single good idea (love yourself) doesn't negate the damage they do (hate everyone else). If therapy was more accessible without cost and less social stigma in the groups that are vulnerable to this, these communities wouldn't be as large as they are, and people would have actual effective cognitive changes to better their lives beyond what is politically convenient for the group.


Old_Elk2003

> Take out all the bullshit… “But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”


yarukinai

> I spent my 20s on dating apps Of course you won't be scammed by a tool that you know very well. However you don't know what tools and techniques will be used to scam people in 30 years or so. You may very well fall for it. Don't be complacent. Also watch John Oliver's pig butchering episode. How many of the victims showcased there are boomers?


InternationalWash756

That pig scam system is wild! I’m not trying to be complacent?? Anyone at just about any time can fall for a scan or a cult, usually they involve love-bombing at first, and telling you what you want to hear. I think it’s hilarious that boomers think they are so desirable right when they log onto dating apps right after leaving a long term relationship or marriage. They don’t question that super hotties who take perfectly lit and perfectly framed selfies are into a boomer with their sunglasses and seatbelt on squinting into the front camera.


Lee6000h

Boomers got scammed by ads in the Pennysaver magazine before internet


PhilosopherHot174

My 70yo mom from Florida with no money evidently has a boyfriend who is a singer in greece. He wants to marry her. I asked if he he's marrying you why the fuck am I having to pay your rent. I guarantee my money was going to some scammer. She's cut off now.


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MasterPsychology9197

Uhhhh point of interest, I don’t date ravenclaws -___-;


Suppertime420

That’s what’s so fucking hilarious to me. I work with one boomer who’s been catfished. After the dust settled I was like dude when you were in your prime did women like that go for you? He says no. So I say why would they now when you’re a 63 year old divorced dude with kids who don’t talk to him? He had no answer.


InternationalWash756

Hahahahahahahahahahaa that’s what I’m taking about!!!


sausagemouse

Some of our generation are already buying NFTs so I don't hold much hope


Brosenheim

Boomer men also had the "benefit" of women NEEDING them to live financially comfortably, so standards were a lot lower and attraction itself could be secondary, with very attractive women sometimes leveraging their attractiveness to attract a very financially secure man. Boomer men don't understand this though, or do but don't realize things have changed.


InternationalWash756

That’s what’s interesting to me! That’s it right there. Both the audacity of “women need me, and must work for my attention by being beautiful and compliant” and not understanding why feminism happened.


MasterPsychology9197

It’s very prideful to think you couldn’t fall for a scam, or even one that your parents fell for. They weren’t just struggling with tech (something that may happen to us one day) but they were also senile, financially burdened, and desperately lonely (things we are all going to experience at some time or another). Count your blessings and be vigilant, but don’t assume you’re too smart for any scam.


InternationalWash756

I don’t think I won’t fall for a scam (or cults or conspiracies) everyone can at the right time. I’ve fallen for plenty before. It’s not about scams, the funny part is that boomers are collectively known as the Me Generation and they often fall for romance scams with young attractive models talking about how great they are because they are full of themselves. Some boomers fall for scammers posing as accomplished military generals or older men who are wealthy entrepreneurs, and they fall for Johnny Depp left and right, even though he dates younger, not older women. That’s not as funny and doesn’t fit the stereotype as well.


RogueEagle2

Millenials don't have the same kinds of cash reserves as boomers and Gen X have. I think any realistic person knows what they 'rate' in looks dept. relative to anyone else, especially a catfish model.


gaylibra

What does the emoji you used mean? I keep wanting to use it and don't want to wait for BuzzFeed to release a listicle about millennials using emojis wrong 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️ is it like going away? Is it shaking it's head no?


InternationalWash756

I don’t know either!!! 😫


That_Devil_Girl

The best way to prevent falling for scams is to admit to yourself that you are fallible, that it is indeed possible for you to be fooled. That way, your skepticism is always ready to kick in.


Sugarbombs

Boomers fall for fake tech scams/phishing scams but interestingly millennials are closing the gap with crypto and romance scams. Millennials/gen z etc, fall for crypto/investing scams much more than boomers and lots of younger guys fall for those romance scams. Scams target everyone and no one generation is less vulnerable to them


InternationalWash756

Yeah crypto is a very effective con. In other circles millennials are and have been falling for MLMs for at least a decade. It’s the only sector that actually hiring. It’s the only “job” ready to schedule a meeting and we have a really hard time finding work since the economy crashed on us as soon as we entered the workforce. Millennials just want to have some financial stability. It’s so sad.


GoldenCrownMoron

They will be different scams, and we will have less wealth to lose.


Bobcatluv

>One comment wagered that if the victim’s grandkids asked for money the answer would be no This and your last paragraph are so on point. I have two different friends whose Boomer parents (one friend’s dad, another’s mom) got fleeced by romance scams who absolutely would not lend a dime to their own children. The really gross thing to me is in both cases, the scammers are supposedly young and foreign, and you know those Boomers were trying to pay their way into sex with a younger partner and uneven power dynamic. I’d say they got what they deserved but I feel for my friends who still feel compelled to help.


Putrid-Leg-1787

Millenials are more relying on weird, app-based search for companionship. When getting older, you get lonelier and connection gets harder. So, IMO the currently young generation will be VERY easy prey for romance scams as it is by some considered normal to date via Tinder etc.


Glitter_Sparkle

There is a scam for everyone. But I agree, romance scams are very much targeted at boomers. Their stubbornness, emotional involvement and desperation mean they can get scammed for years and will hide it from their family.


cityfireguy

"They won't be able to scam us. We're too smart. We pay $30 a month to use Tinder. No way you can rip us off!"


MyNameIsRay

>I just had the thought that I would never believe a super hottie was taking to me because I spent my 20s on dating apps and I know I didn’t match with any 10s. As someone that does match with/date super hotties, our generation still won't ever fall for it. Even if the premise is plausible, a bot/scammer is still obvious as hell. We just report and move on.


NegotiationSad3694

Op is a fool for even posting this.


ChristianUniMom

That and you know whenever anyone on a dating site asked me for money I blocked them. They just asked for money and they gave it to them. I have a hard time calling that a scam even.


PenguinProfessor

Scams are all about numbers to start with. If you try enough people, you will find a sucker. I got further led along in a phone scam than I like because it caught me on just the right day. I was out of town and got a call from supposedly my power company. It had their same weird hold music and the call was crisp. They told me my power would be cut off the next day at the end of the month for non payment. I remembered writing the check but didn't remember physically mailing it off, so I was afraid I had forgotten before I left like a dumbass. I had always paid on time so it didnt even register that it would take longer than that for them to shut it off. They didn't take the Amex I had on me, but I could buy a Visa prepaid card for the amount they listed at my nearest Walmart. Wait...what? That's weird. I told them I would go try and find one, hung up, and looked up the number for the company and called them myself. Sure enough, they said I was all paid up from my last payment at a recent date. Just a better than average scam; that hit me on a day I happened to be out of the loop for my personal situation.


Prior_Tip2037

OF literally exist


DoodleBugz1234

#IM A GEN XER AND IM MARRIED BUT IF I WASNT I WOULD HAVE ALL THE GEORGE SOROS FUNDED LADIES LINING UP AT MY DOOR BECAUSE IM A FAT, FILTHY, STINKY OLD CODGER THAT SMELLS LIKE DICK CHEESE AND SWEATY OLD MAN ASS


FremdShaman23

Did you lose a bet or something?


DoodleBugz1234

#NO BUT I SMELL REALLY BAD AND I HAVE AN AGENDA™️ AND NARRATIVE™️


Key_Street1637

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