FIFA sold a crypto token that gave buyers the "Right To Buy" a FIFA ticket. This was separate from the ticket price itself. Many users bought the token (jesus, what a grift) only to later see the marked up price and declined their "right to buy". They didn't receive a refund. FIFA likely made "tens of millions of dollars" from the scheme.
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The problem with Sunday's broadcast wasn't the fighting. The problem was the tonally incoherent emulsion of patriotism and blood lust. History and by this crap an event happening for the people but tucked behind a paramount payw wall.
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She also cautioned that while older adults may be particularly vulnerable to scam attempts, everyone should consider themselves a potential target. “If you don’t think this is going to happen to you, you’re probably the next person that’s going to happen to,” Nofziger said. “Start today to protect yourself, and then know where to go if something like this happens.
Nofziger said that older adults especially need to take scams seriously — all the more so since the emergence of generative AI tools that make traps even more effective. Some scams can be so bedeviling that the victims never find their way out of them, with heartbreaking results. "I've been working with a few families for years where their loved one cannot get pulled out of the scam," she told us. "And they've decided that having that person in their life and [...] having $500 or $1,000 stolen every month from them is okay."