Yeah I’ve accidentally gone to YWN without my ad blocker on and it is traumatizing.
I still hold strongly that we are all talking about the same coin scam, it’s just a matter of whether or not you’ve fallen for it. It’s just a variation of the “I can’t cash this winning million dollar lottery ticket, can you do it for me? I’ll just need a measly 100 dollar deposit.” Or any telephone, free-yacht kind of scam. You get “free money” which somehow the seller can’t get themself, and they NEED you to do it for them. I’m not going to argue this any longer. At a certain point, I don’t really sympathize with the victims when it’s kind of like economic natural selection: if you’re dumb enough to fall for these, you don’t deserve to have money. I do, however, feel bad for elderly victims; they have an excuse. And, they’re who’s being targeted based on form of media (radio, religious news sites, etc.)