Post #1201656
2026-04-16 12:42 UTC
> Scams are usually imagined as a game with two players: con artist and mark. But today’s scams are more like massively multiplayer online games. They are, as I have put it, “network scams.” In this economy, everyone is reminded to respect the hustle of the next person, to always try to out-hustle them, but to accept when they themselves have been out-hustled.
"Social Media in the Scam Age", a new essay from fintech scholar Lana Swartz
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051261437922
Replies (2)
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@starfrost@wetdry.world 2026-04-16 13:15
@darius Society of fraud needs massive action to overturn it...
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@aparrish@friend.camp 2026-04-16 18:28
@darius "When scams fill the gaps and take the shape of failing institutions, they fill (and reveal) unmet human needs—identity, agency, community, a future." this is basically the definition of trumpism, right?