Are rationalists any less susceptible to online scams than a random sample of the general population? I would hope that no one here has fallen for "hey it's me, Ozzy Osbourne, I'm not really dead, I'm just on the Crazy Train and I need $300USD..." unsolicited messages. But who knows, maybe there's some affinity scam "It's me Eliezer, I've picked you to help me fight bad AGI, can you send me $300USD..."
I was specifically thinking about fraudulent accounts and messages like the Ozzy Osbourne example or basically anything based on the Nigerian Prince Scam where there is it is highly unlikely that a dead celebrity or royalty is contacting the mark out of the blue.
You raise a good point about FTX and the number of rationalists it hoodwinked, but that is a different (and perhaps more interesting) phenomena than the one I'm querying about.
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Proof of concept (not very careful) -- unfortunately, we don't have the data about its success rate.