Comment by cortesoft
4 hours ago
There were so many scam ads in magazines and newspapers back in the day. Same with all the made for tv stuff and infomercials.
The difference for the newspaper and magazine ads is you couldn't just click on it in an instant. You had to spend a lot more effort and had more chances to realize it is a scam.
In a way, ads like that can be a bit scarier. We recently bought a house and through the next 3 months I got so many scary warnings in the mail, most of which looked legit and official, saying that if I dont visit sign up for X then I will be billed Y, or my house will be at risk of Z, and other such tactics. I was not expecting this inondation but I can see someone falling for this.
Not trying to justify either, BTW. Its just scary how many different ways there are to defraud people.