Also fascinating is that the scammers have abandoned their use of stolen verified accounts to push scams
It’s similar to the Nigerian “Spanish Prisoner” e-mail scams with all the ridiculous misspellings and grammatical errors. Most of us say “how could anyone be so stupid to fall for something so obvious?”, to which the grifter would reply “Exactly!”
It’s scammers all the way down in that world. Guys like Guerbuez aren’t outright crooks like the scumbag he’s interviewing but they’re just as shady. In the interview the scammer says he learned about cryptocurrency gambling, which forms the basis of the grift, from Guerbuez himself and mocks him for using some of the same proxy account methods.
Guerbuez and other “cryptocurrency gurus” (like James Altucher, who was published on this site before he moved to this) are opportunistic hustlers who move from trend to trend in the get-rich-quick sector just as used-car salesmen become mortgage brokers and MLM hucksters as their old dodgy businesses get shut down or get exposed in the media.
