Vaniver comments on Attention! Financial scam targeting Less Wrong users - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 02 March 2016 12:26:04AM *  7 points [-]

I was messaged by and responded to both. I suspect they're different people.

I also am not sure they're scams in the traditional sense. An employer match is the sort of thing that encourages this sort of thinking:

Whether or not this is within the letter of a match policy depends on the specific policy, but it's typically against the spirit and recommended against by Double the Donation. So even if there is no lurking chargeback, I would caution against this as burning the commons for short-term gain.

Also, if you have a strange story, keep Robin Hanson's recent Facebook post in mind:

If someone ever wants to give me $1M+ out of the blue, I hope they'll do more than send me an email w/o phone number I could call to confirm


Keeping that in mind, so far hans_jonsson seems legit. (I've only put a moderate amount of effort into verifying his claims.)

Comment author: Vaniver 04 March 2016 01:45:51PM *  7 points [-]

I was messaged by and responded to both. I suspect they're different people.

Update: they are different people, but the first one was working for the second one.