There is always a small audience who responds to this type of message, most likely outside a first world country. The problem is that they spam broadcast to everyone, of which 99.99% laughs at it and ignores it. Those who do respond are vulnerable to the scam.

Some rings promise good wages overseas, and when people buy in to the scam they end up enslaved in a warehouse overseas.

This is a low cost spam message to find more victims to fill the overseas jails filled with workers committing high tech crimes.

Honestly, the first mistake was a rookie mistake, to trust the dealer on maintenance. The dealer is always a vampire. The only reason to go to the dealer is when your trusted local repair garage recommends it when they do not have a real solution to the problem.

Good thing your friend never went back to the dealer.

The worst of the worst gets on the internet. Even here on Lemmy I’ve seen trolls post brutal videos of murder and torture every once in a while. That kind of stuff lives on niche channels and overflows to the mainstream every once in a while.

In the early internet I once saw a cute young woman in athletic gear (Adidas I think) walking in a park, then stepping on top of a bench. Then starts pulling down her pants and begins to squat. The camera zooms at her cute bottom, then like 15 seconds later a long column of poop starts flowing, and keeps flowing, pauses, and keeps flowing and flowing to make an impossible small mountain of poop. She then grabs a few napkins from somewhere and wipes, then pulls up her pants up her bottom and simply walks away, leaving behind a gross mound of human waste for someone else to clean up.

Money is weird, 95% of us do not know what it is. Money is owned by a very small percentage of the population, the rest of us are rats in the race. The true holders of money make it their job for their kids to continue family business. Beliefs, rules, morality in that class are vastly different from the rest of us. In the context of the OP question, corruption is a word that only exists within the working class. Money does not corrupt those who have it. It only corrupts those who do not have it. People will attack each other with whatever means is superior to their rival.

LOL. Playboy magazine. 70% was real articles. When you weren’t pooping you wood use the other 15%.

Wow, I forgot it came out in 1999, I guess, technically. It’s one of my favorite movies ever of all time, but it was too far ahead of its time for me to think of it as 90s movie.

Maybe the elevated brain energy along with the will to survive or to avoid imminent death might coerce other areas of the brain to align with survival.

My mistake, yes one million.

Tell her a fun fact, in your best science teacher tone. It takes one billion microseconds to get to one second. Hopefully she can run with this and ask more questions.