#scam

What this server has with the tag: posts by people here, and posts from elsewhere that reached it. There's more of it on lgbtqia.space, social.vivaldi.net, digitalcourage.social.

@alice@lgbtqia.space

: There's another wave of "Registration/Verification" scams going on right now. I've suspended several today.

Mastodon admins will *never* message you to go click links or other shit like that to fix/save/unblock/verify/etc your account.

Any account with variations on "helper", "notification", "verification", and so on in their name are almost certainly a scam.

Report them.

@jon@vivaldi.net

I am not a fan of gambling. Never have been. Personally I think most all gambling should be banned. Maybe with some limited exceptions.

What I am more than disgusted by is the so called prediction markets. That looks like the worst kind of gambling and marketed as just stats. TV channels, such as CNN, include gambling results from these companies as something equal to polling. Hidden marketing is a more accurate term.

There is also a lot of examples of people gambling on things they know the outcome of. Maybe not a big surprise with something like this.

Where are the regulators? Why is this allowed?