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They butter you up for a long while before they get to the offer - that's the distinction from normal scams. They act as a friend and confidant for weeks, maybe flirt, and when the pig is "raised" they move to the slaughtering process

so it's not a stranger, it's "your close online friend says they have a good retirement fund and it might do better than yours, would you try it out?"






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