Numlock News: September 9, 2022 • Scams, Luck, Pine Nuts
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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend. Scams Romance scams are insidious, and the ability to make a digital footprint on a site like LinkedIn has only made the problem worse. For instance, as of mid-July there are 1,004 Tsinghua University graduates who work at SpaceX, which is pretty shocking, because if so they’d be the single largest alumni group at the private space company. No, turns out lots of them had identical resumes — a stint at USC and in Shanghai — and are likely fakes made with the goal of legitimizing fake, catfished online relationships with marks, which is called a
Numlock News: September 9, 2022 • Scams, Luck, Pine Nuts
Numlock News: September 9, 2022 • Scams…
Numlock News: September 9, 2022 • Scams, Luck, Pine Nuts
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend. Scams Romance scams are insidious, and the ability to make a digital footprint on a site like LinkedIn has only made the problem worse. For instance, as of mid-July there are 1,004 Tsinghua University graduates who work at SpaceX, which is pretty shocking, because if so they’d be the single largest alumni group at the private space company. No, turns out lots of them had identical resumes — a stint at USC and in Shanghai — and are likely fakes made with the goal of legitimizing fake, catfished online relationships with marks, which is called a