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#7: Stay Away From Online Crypto Baes

Photo: DENIS CHARLET / AFP
Photo: DENIS CHARLET / AFP (Getty Images)

If someone reaches out to you on Tinder and suggests that you invest in their new DAO, best to un-match immediately. We recently wrote about the noxious trend known as “pig butchering,” wherein criminal-syndicate-backed fraudsters perpetrate “romance scams” on lonely web users and take them for all they’ve got. A lot of these scams begin on popular dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, and others) and then slowly transition into money-thieving nightmares. All the more reason not to date anybody who professes interest in Web3.