vorlon@mastodon.socialtorandom@kbin.run•In any scam, any con, any hustle, the big winners are the people who supply the scammers - not the scammers themselves. The kids selling dope on the corner are making less than minimum wage, while the
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10 months ago@PaulInRainCity @Beeks @pluralistic I’m curious about your experience. Do you mean the difficulty of defending yourself mentally/psychologically, or something else?
I was diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago today, and haven’t found scammers to be part of my experience
@PaulInRainCity@heads.social @Beeks@mstdn.party @pluralistic@mamot.fr the worst I ever had to deal with was a well-meaning but misguided open source colleague who, er, mistook me for a Steve on another continent and suggested I travel to Slovenia for cutting edge medicine that could cure any cancer with CAR-T therapy (which is basically inapplicable to my solid tumor cancer)