Hey people, I just had a small talk with a scammer and I wanted to share it with you all.

Basically, on Twitter, someone pretended to be Jason Lowery and sent me a DM (if you don't know who Jason Lowery is, you probably will soon, and I strongly recommend taking your time to learn about his astonishing viewpoint on proof of work).

Disclaimer
This guy is not the real Lowery, I'm sure it's redundant, but repetita iuvant

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I had a very brief DM exchange with Lowery a few weeks ago, but still, he messaging me was a very improbable event, in any case, I was literally listening to his last interview and lost in thought I just behaved friendly.

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So, if I had suspected before, now I'm sure he's not the guy.

I had a small laugh and tried to end this quickly.

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But he doubled down

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and that reminded me about James Veitch (if you don't know who James Veitch is, click here and thank me later), so i saw an opportunity.

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I was lucky yes, now i had to take the bait

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Count me in 🤣

Now I have only one task: to waste his time

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i'm in i'm in 🤑

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Uhm.. 🤔
How can i look stupid enough to need help with this task?

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i'm a natural 🤣 .. 😧

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D'CENT, you are right, or was it binance that u needed? I can't recall, or was it metamask?
Yea it was metamask i'm sure

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that, which is totally relevant, should let you know that i'm stupid enough to give a not trivial sum to you my friend.
Now it's time for my bait

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Yep, i just said that, c'mon it's right there, take it 🤤

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WHAT?! Come on what the fuck bro! Why not?? I just want you to eagerly open a picture😭

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Come on bro, be kind!

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The fuck bro! You are ruining my performance here! I cannot make a screenshot, that would be recognizable, and you would immediately realize that is a joke.. come on I need you to realize it slowly, I want to wonder your face at THAT moment!

I'm short of ideas now

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What can I say? it doesn't work

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i bet he's frustrated right now 🤣

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He's totally frustrated! 🤣🤣🤣
But damn it, he got me, i don't want to click on the link, You know.. you never know.

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So i just sent him a screen randomly taken on the opensea platform

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Now he should be really confused

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Reaaally confused

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Pfff the screenshot again..

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Don't you mind if i use exactly the same image you sent me right?

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Come on, the screenshot again? U know.. a link it's a link and metamask wont work

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Maybe i went too wild this time..
he ain't answered for a while, perhaps he smelt the rat, let's check

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Sooo

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He quitted 😞

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But i didn't!!

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Let's pass one hour, let him to cool down

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Did he really quitted?

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YES!! YES YES YEEESSS!!!

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NOOOOOO!!😭😭 He's banned (or he banned me i don't know)

This is the end of the story, but i want to show you the seed phrase i had for him!

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Finally i failed on getting him to slowly realize that he had been fooled, but at least i wasted some of a scammer time.
Time that he would have used to hurt someone else, and that is still a small victory.

Lastly i want encourage you all to waste scammer time when you can, and to have a look at the Jason Lowery series into the What is money podcast by Robert Breedlove. His viewpoint on bitcoin as national security problem it's incredibly informative and inspiring.