yo responded to my line "hopyfully show that im competent at esport betting" saying i failed at that.
Not quite. Look at your original comment:
when i wished to be honest, and hopefully show that im competent.
See? There is a full stop at the end. Nothing about esports.
now you try to cover up what you just did and claim you are talking about general competency. which doesnt even have anything to do with what im trying to do with this whole thing which is minimising existential risk by getting more money into the cause that i currently think is the best suited.
LOL. General competency does have much to do with "this whole thing". You are not helping your cause at the moment.
"Not quite. Look at your original comment:" where the topic was esports betting. no, i did not attempt to show that im competent in whatever it is you think i was trying attempt to show to be competent in by specifically showing my results in betting.
"LOL. General competency does have much to do with "this whole thing". You are not helping your cause at the moment." what does general competency have to do with this? at the core, the value a person provides is the effect he has on existential risk reduction, and the by far bes...
Recently, multiple suspicious user accounts were created on Less Wrong. These accounts don't post any content in the forum. Instead, they are used only to send private messages to the existing users.
Many users have received a copy of the same message, but different variants exist, too. Here are the examples I know about. If you have received a different variant, please post it in a comment below this article:
I don't know yet about anyone who replied and got scammed, so this is all based on indirect evidence. If you got scammed, please tell me. If you are ashamed, I can publish your story anonymously. Your story could help other potential victims.
Most likely, the scheme is the following:
(Thanks to ChristianKl for explaining the system in the Open Thread.)
If you replied to the original message and now you are already in the middle of the process, please inform your bank as soon as possible! Even if the step 2 didn't happen yet, so you can still get out without losing money, warning your bank about the scammer could help other potential victims.
Warning: If you have already received a check or a payment confirmation, and someone is asking you to send the overpayment back quickly, do not send anything. The check or the payment confirmation is fake, and the goal is to make you send money before you find out. (Thanks to qsz for explaining.)