Scammers are getting more and more banal. In the days of yore, they pretended to be Nigerian princes, literal royalty, in order to get money from the most vulnerable and gullible people they could possibly scam. Now, scammers are so boring. They pretend to be family members in need of money. They make fake Venmo accounts with your name and face on them, and Venmo requests your friends and family $400 for "grocery money" The glamour and theatrics that once defined the online scammer industry have completely fallen off in the last five years. It's very tragic.
These gift card scammers just won't quit, so much so that it's honestly an art form at this point. Of course, the recipient of the scam, in this case, is much more skilled at this whole trolling thing than we'll ever be, so we have to salute his hilarious and valiant efforts for that!
