I’ve often said that in contrast to the 419 advanced fee scam (Nigerian Prince) that these days it’s way easier. In the olden days you received a fax or email, which even with mass marketing to millions narrowed the further effort down to a select few - those gullible enough to reply. Now, with the never ending push of conspiracy content the target audience can find the old rabbit hole and come to you.
Some statistics from the FTC bear out the increasing exponential impact:
Your politicians love to complain about the cost of immediate projects. How much to send to the war in the Ukraine. How much to fund the problems with immigration. What to do about interest rates and inflation. When something like gematria sports picks comes along it just seems odd and weird. Why bother paying attention to something that’s utter nonsense that nobody would be foolish enough to believe?
Well there’s this thing called math, and enough people get involved and will continue to be involved in believing in something too good to be true.
When prices are set for food, part of the cost is already factored in for loss due to pests, disease and product expiration. When cars are priced for sale, the math on odds of a mandated safety recall are factored in. Insurance premiums are based on how many gazillion dollars the CEOs expect each year. Everything has a hidden cost that you are paying for.
Promoters of conspiracy content rely on astute psychological understanding of human nature. It’s not a goal to believe in the “product” for the rest of your life. The cognitive bias of short term benefit vs. long term impact is super powerful. Unless we are expected to evolve into a species where everyone steals from everyone else and that’s a good thing there’s no winners.
In that link, note that the romance scam is still a solid money maker. The scammer invests some short term energy into pumping up the ego of the target. You are so funny, smart, wonderful. The romance attaboys, hiding behind a fake account that may even be the opposite gender of what you expected. Following a script to help them through the rough spots on common skepticism. Then, ironically, being identified as a good person, the target is hit with some tragedy that only their money can solve. You are not a good person if you don’t send that money, whether you self identify the need to send that money immediately or suffer through more external pressure to guide you to that conclusion. An analogy is the mega church operators and their ilk. You are not a truly religious person unless you buy the miracle spring water that will magically erase your debt.
Gematria got merged into the conspiracy world of how everything is an animal in Australia that wants to kill you. Instead of selling a temporary feeling of joy of being a good person, the product is hatred. You can find numbers for everything you hate. The other political party. The wrong religion. Your government authorities. Law enforcement. You are no longer a good person if you don’t demonstrate your hatred by giving them your money. If you’ve awakened to how it makes no sense that the results of your sports prediction weren’t really a prediction, no further effort will be wasted on you. They are looking for someone with more staying power. The ones that demonstrate a consistent enough hatred to keep going to present the next level of funding. What started as jollies by analyzing your favorite team’s numbers is met with pressure to do more for the community.
The mid level believer is the kind of person who will double down instead of admitting they are wrong. They are susceptible to the double dip, where the first scam certainly didn’t help their situation and the next get rich quick scheme seems like a good idea. Now you aren’t even making sports picks anymore. Now your being groomed for cryptocurrency, sovereign citizen, political donations on a large scale type scams. You’re already armed with the cognitive bias of the gambler’s fallacy. You are due. Because you are a loyal hate filled person that has picked the scapegoat of the day whether that is someone of the wrong gender, skin color or sexual orientation. The math bears out that there’s always a significant number of these.
Here’s somebody on Twitter getting gematria groomed:
Of course you’ve seen for yourself it’s always correct. There’s always correct numbers. There’s also a million times more incorrect numbers that you could have latched on to. I looked at the profile and recent posts. This person is now getting into crypto and political donations type content. Using my amazing powers of gematria prediction, I expect loss of money in a significant amount, getting along with the family problems, and pressure to put out more scam content because the cause is more important than just what’s going on in your life. The scam promoter admits to the confirmation bias. Whatever it is I’m searching for, I’m sure to find.
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