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What were the major end user scams in web 1 and web 2?

1 pointsby sf4liferover 2 years ago
I recall ad fraud (click farms etc) and maybe some early ecommerce buy but not receive goods but nothing at the scale (even adjusted for web 1 adoption in the 90s) at crypto frequency/scale. Identity/credit theft maybe?

2 comments

cratermoonover 2 years ago
nimda, ILOVEYOU, Code Red, Sadmind, Canter and Siegel's Green Card spam. Not necessarily in that order.
wmfover 2 years ago
Dotcom IPOs.