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Scammers usually try to target 🎯 gullible people like old people. Usually people who don't understand what's going on.
If you're gonna type out target, why the emoji?
MAGA Supporters would be reading it 🤣
What a weird ❓ way to use emoji 😁
iirc some phone keyboards autosuggest emoji when you type a word, op probably just didn't bother to remove it
Yeah I don't know why people do that.
I just removed that in my Google Messages app today. And just now in SwiftKey. I guess it came packaged in an update. It's annoying, I never asked for it, just one day it started suggesting them in the autocorrect. Dumb.
I have had the misfortune of Mixing shows for Newsmax....that is literally their stick
Their shtick?
Well I wasn't smart enough to say no to working for that god awful place briefly.... I'm certainly not smart enough to spel gud
Them beating you in the head with their stick probably didn't help.
Not at all.. ha
Their schtick.
I thought so too, and schtick is a valid variant, but dictionaries list shtick first.
Yeah, both are correct in English.
I'd love to see a study on the religiosity, political affiliation, education, wealth, career, and age of people who get scammed and the types of scams they fell for.
Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.