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Who is being scammed? The only people buying into tokens as obscure as these are degenerate gamblers who know very well that it's not any kind of an investment.




That sounds like victim blaming to me

It's not a scam, there's no misrepresentation. This very clearly isn't marketed as an investment of any kind https://bags.fm

https://apps.apple.com/app/bags-financial-messenger/id647319...

The tagline of the app? "Buy & sell memecoins". Transparently advertised as a crowdfunding mechanism using memecoins.


Yegge write a blog post for his readers where he called it an investment and hoped the investors would get “filthy rich”.

What? Of course it's marketed as an investment. That's the sole thing it's marketed as. Are you not able to lift the thinnest veil imaginable?



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