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I mean if we are deepfaking things for Elon to do, why pick something so on brand? I guess it lends legitimacy to the scam, because if anyone were to be shilling a crypto scam, it’s that old musky ballsack.

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And people who think he is a genius are more likely to believe it, unfortunately.

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If they wind up believing they got scammed by Elon Musk, something good may come of this in the end.

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Yes, adding legitimacy is the point. The scammers want to scam people.

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Web3 evangelists are VERY obsessed with Elon, all they need is a couple of them to not do the due diligence and they’ll make bank.

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When trying to scam people, why pick something that they will believe?

I think you answered your own question

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Scamming is bad but I gotta admit… kinda hard to feel sorry for people taking advice from Elon Musk.

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*checks username for anything Musk* It’s clean, we’re good.

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Pretty hard to distinguish from Elon’s actual scams

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This has been going on for a very long time, just at varying degrees of deepfakery. A couple of years ago it was just a picture of him and a generic computer voice reading a “transcript” that he definitely for sure wrote about etherium and doge coin being the best way to make money.

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