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| Rick Law:
--- Quote from: KE5FX on January 16, 2022, 04:57:58 am --- [reply summarized by RL as: ] ...if you went up to the mona lisa...l'd like to own it...you paid them and they went "here's you receipt..."[they] went to an unmarked supply closet in the back and posted a handmade label inside that said "mona lisa currently owned by..." --- End quote --- Scamming is probably as old as homo-sapiens. Every Christmas and other gift-giving seasons, you see this on USA TV - the unique "gift" of naming a star after someone. They send you a "certificate" and put it in a book call USA Star Registry with "copyright". This is exactly like putting your name as the "owner" in a closet. That you "named" a star after someone is true, but only in that book and I doubt if that book is even published or sold. Giving the frequency that ad shows up, I suppose there are enough new scam victims years after years to make the scam still viable. I would insert a link to prove this silly scam exist, but I don't want to give them more traffic. "There's a sucker bone every minute..." |
| rsjsouza:
There is a new fad heavily promoted in youtube that, if you buy a piece of land in Scotland, you are granted a title of "Lord" or "Lady". It may well be truth (I know nothing about Scotland's laws), but it is an interesting way to cater to a human's vanity bone. :-DD |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on January 16, 2022, 08:33:37 pm --- --- Quote from: KE5FX on January 16, 2022, 04:57:58 am --- [reply summarized by RL as: ] ...if you went up to the mona lisa...l'd like to own it...you paid them and they went "here's you receipt..."[they] went to an unmarked supply closet in the back and posted a handmade label inside that said "mona lisa currently owned by..." --- End quote --- Scamming is probably as old as homo-sapiens. Every Christmas and other gift-giving seasons, you see this on USA TV - the unique "gift" of naming a star after someone. They send you a "certificate" and put it in a book call USA Star Registry with "copyright". This is exactly like putting your name as the "owner" in a closet. That you "named" a star after someone is true, but only in that book and I doubt if that book is even published or sold. Giving the frequency that ad shows up, I suppose there are enough new scam victims years after years to make the scam still viable. I would insert a link to prove this silly scam exist, but I don't want to give them more traffic. "There's a sucker bone every minute..." --- End quote --- I'd think stars were named by their parents, unless adopting a stage alias. 😜 |
| eti:
This says exactly what I think about this crock of shite ✌️NFT✌️Lunacy https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/02/stop-this-digital-ownership-madness-nfts-are-bullshit-and-the-stupid-makes-me-angry/ |
| VooDust:
--- Quote from: nctnico on January 16, 2022, 01:29:32 am ---An NFT is a certificate of ownership based on a distributed ledger (DLT). It is definitely not cryptocurrency! --- End quote --- this is the literal definition of cryptocurrency |
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