neeneko wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:24 pm
neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:57 am
Why do I wanna take advice from this asshole? It pisses me off when people try to use their celeb status to dupe average citizens into buying into crypto -- no matter how they try to dress it up as cryptotainment or games or exclusive films or whatever. It is all junk.
It tends to be well paying junk though. When various crypto scams unravel, the biggest operating expense tends to be how much money flowed to influencers to bring in marks. From a celebrity's perspective, it is just like doing any other endorsement, only more lucrative.
Except when the celebrity is not involved in any way other than having their image used without permission.
I used to get countless crypto ads using Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith illegally. I'd report the ad, and it would come back almost immediate with barely changed text to avoid detection. Sometimes they would just replace an English letter with a similar Portuguese letter (an 'e' with a cedilla for example) to sneak it through.
Dunno if Smith ever got wind of it, but they eventually changed the celebrity picture (I seem to remember Hugh Jackman) and kept going.
Haven't seen them for a while though.