Posted on 10/14/2024 7:40:00 AM PDT by vespa300
It started with a small $1,000 cryptocurrency investment, but by the time the Santa Monica-based software developer realized the truth, he’d turned over $740,000 with no hope of getting it back. He liquidated stocks, emptied his savings and drained his retirement.
If a friend hadn’t intervened, he would have lost his home, too, all in the hopes of covering the “taxes” needed to withdraw the $2 million he’d supposedly made from cryptocurrency trades his love interest had recommended.
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this is extremely sad, no matter what. people are so vulnerable (and gullible)
they’re all over X 10 fold from that. in fact, they’re everywhere and everyone should be alert
BTW, I think I know what the term of pig butchering comes from.
In The Peace Child by Don Richardson, he relates his missionary work with the Sawi head hunting tribes whose highest ideal of manhood is treachery, fattening someone with friendship for the slaughter (betrayal and literal as they would then cannibalize the victim)
When he first presented the gospel to them, Judas was their hero. But he found a way to present the gospel where that changed.
The book is well worth the read. It’s fascinating what missionaries are up against spiritually.
I’ve gotten 10 pings in the last two days from “mystery women”
Block and block.
hahaha...me too. Especially the asian ones....
“2. Why did you make the sex urge/drive in the male so strong?”
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Because why else would men put their “manhood” into something that looks like an axe wound that only bleeds five days a month and smells like dead fish?
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