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Scammers cannot talk people past a 24 hour wait. This attack is built upon pressure and operates at a scale that makes stealing many identies, building different-enough apps to avoid getting flagged by Google and signing them all non-viable.


>Scammers cannot talk people past a 24 hour wait.

Oh yeah, I forgot they're bound to some code of rules they follow. Scammers, of all people.


You're being dumb.

Not a 'code of rules'. The scam itself relies on urgency. Breaking the spell by allowing people to talk to friends/family/their bank makes the scam not work.


Please follow the site guidelines regarding (avoiding) personal attacks.

I can think of plenty of scams that take days in the making. Even the classic "redeem" ones have people hooked in the thing for like a week ...




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