• FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    75·
    7 months ago

    The biggest indicator she’s extremely out of touch is that something incredibly embarrassing happened to her and rather than try to minimize it she wrote an article telling everyone in the world what an unqualified moron she is and tried to present it as “this could happen to anyone” and expected any response other than being clowned on

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    60·
    7 months ago

    A tweet

    omg 💀This makes me feel better about New York Magazine rejecting my personal essay about my dad stealing my identity when I was 5. I never gave a shoebox of money to the fake CIA. I’m not related to any Roosevelts — Just organized Sicilian-Irish crime bosses and Lutheran zealots

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        42·
        7 months ago

        Still the absolute funniest bit

        Three minutes later, a white Mercedes SUV pulled up to the curb. “The back window will open,” said the man on the phone. “Do not look at the driver or talk to him. Put the box through the window, say ‘thank you,’ and go back inside.”

        This dude really was like ‘also be grateful’

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          17·
          7 months ago

          I got a scam call one time from somebody pretending to be from my bank and it got as far as them texting some fake automated thing to me asking for my password. Up until that point it seemed legit, of they told me to cash out my account I works have laughed then off the phone instantly

          Bourgeois people in America are powerfully stupid

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      I’m starting to think their entire lives are various scams piled on top of one another. But most of the scams they involve themselves with get them invited to fancy dinners at the Guggenheim or whatever where a charismatic person in a tuxedo tells them to donate to various non-profits to raise awareness of imposter syndrome.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    7 months ago

    Actually I think the best comment is one pointing out she wrote an article about getting her identity stolen in 2012. Looking forward to her next “I got scammed by a con a high schooler could see through” article

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      33·
      7 months ago

      In 2012 she was approached by a nice man in a tailored suit. He was handsome and what’s the word… debonair. Unbeknownst to her he had a very fake “British” accent.

      “I am very sorry to trouble you. But I’m in a spot of bother. I’m a member of MI-5 and this is a matter of great import to both the United States and the United Kingdom. I merely need to borrow your credit card for the briefest of moments…”

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    7 months ago

    Younger adults — Gen Z, millennials, and Gen X — are 34 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud compared with those over 60

    I think almost everyone gets scammed out of something… But there’s a big difference between her and some kid sending a classmate 50$ on a money app for a bag of oregano or someone losing money in a relatively complicated financial scam like digital currencies, or even someone over 60 doing what she did. I don’t think very many 39 year olds hand over 50K because someone who called who knew their social.

    • DamarcusArtEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      A part of it as well is a lot of scams targeting the elderly are designed to be subtle and go on for years, so a retiree sending half their pension to a scammer every month might not even realise that they’re being scammed and think they’re being given a “home security service” or something, and so wouldn’t report it.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    oh that’s how she got conned. She’s a rich daughter of privilege whose entire life has been various guys in suits talking to her about money. They played to her ego so she could feel like an important person, someone working with the CIA. Absolute rube

  • daniyeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    absolutely everyone can fall for a scam if the scammer is dedicated enough, but not for this scam lmao. if i sell everything i have touched in my life i couldn’t muster 50k USD how do some people lose that amount and write a fucking opinion piece about it?

  • davel [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    Did this thing Charlotte Cowles said happened even happen is my question. Or is she getting paid to publish a story worthy of r/thathappened, or is this an elaborate cover to hide her bored ape losses from her spouse?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      I don’t know anything about her other the few snippets I’ve read in the past few days. If she’s very clever - it’s possible everything she wrote was a lie to build her brand because now all that matters in the US for people like her is how much publicity they can generate for themselves.

      Counterpoint - my strong hunch is that she’s absolute moron fail daughter and she actually gave a rando $50,000 in a shoebox.

    • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      7 months ago

      Occam’s razor would say she’s as out of touch as the text suggests. Of course they publish it, for the clicks. She was probably strung out on some powerful meds, this is basically a genre of people I know exist. Inherited everything, no particular acumen but also no awareness or they’d be Hunter. I think we need to hear more from them.