Global scam industry evolving at 'unprecedented scale' despite recent crackdown

  • When the President of the United States endorses and promotes financial (Trumpcoin, etc.) and health (Ivermectin, etc.) scams, this is a signal to everyone that scams are good and it is A-OK to try and take advantage of others. If you are not actively trying to scam others, you are the sucker.

  • As the internet descends into naked lawlessness and technofascism the future of almost everything is allowlisting (whitelisting) and various zero-trust [0] strategies.

    A lot of what we've previously considered "core estate" (Google, Microsoft. Amazon, Meta....) will be on the outside.

    Remember Robert De Niro in "Meet the Fockers"? [1]

    Circle of trust. And you ain't in it....

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_architecture

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Fockers

  • If the US calculates criminal financial losses into tariffs, their own countries will disappear the culprits. We've never seen Mexico move so fast on crime for example.