Oddbean new post about login | logout How much of what he said do you thonk is bullshit? A lot of his story comes off as braggadocio, some of which seemed downright adbsurd. He has an "associate" whose balls haven't even dropped, but he like some sort of scammer savant passing as Vincent Adultman, fraud prevention specialist? People are slinging McClarens for random bags of crypto? He's not even 21 but pops bottles of Dom at the club with his other underage degen frens and then goes back to his parents' house?
Yes a lot of his story didn’t line up. He drives a McLaren but lives at home in SF but said “everyone moved to LA”. Said some other guy stole his money and took off but when asked about the guy that left starts talking about some other guy that only made 10k.
Yes, I was thinking maybe I misheard him on the story about all his friends moving to LA to scam together, because that sounded ostensively batshit absurd; like the sort of thing an asshole kid would make up without realizing how logistically inconsistent that is with shit he also just said. Adding to that, this is a kid who talks about money like he has only spent time lying about it. The cognitive age that he is at, there is no way that he looks at hundreds of thousands as video game money, if he actually had it.
Sounded like a full on confession to me. Maybe I little excess bragging but still.
I think the only things that are maybe even half-true are the oddly specific logistics and details about the scam. Evereything else sounded like a failure-to-launch 20-something would make up to impress losers.
Pathological liar And there’s probably tiny percentage of truth