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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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