People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries

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    3 hours ago

    Atrocious, but also if you are stupid enough to believe these fuckers would actually give you that money, you deserve what you got, I guess?

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Interesting how they heard the news about the self-deportation but didn’t hear the news about how Trump never pays people.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, that’s the real takeaway. I expected them to send them out them say come and get it.

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        You should pay the first few marks so they’ll help establish the veneer of credibility. That’s Conning 101.

        I forget the corresponding Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number.

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      Gotta do just enough payments that people won’t think it’s a lie, and that’s when you pull the (insufferably obvious) switch-a-roo

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Well you start it to fool people, then you cut it off. (The only reason it was offered was because it’s cheaper than sending an agent after you.)

  • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    People lured away with the promise of deportation anyway only to turn themselves in to get something out of it only to then by scammed inhuman.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    👏TRUMP👏NEVER👏PAYS👏HIS👏BILLS👏

    (Unless it’s the hush money bill, or the raping little girls bill, he’s always got cash for those)

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    12 hours ago

    Trump rarely pays people he looks upon as “the help”.

    The man is such a ghetto trash human being.

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    12 hours ago

    I never understood this, maybe they just need the money that badly or are outright threatened.

    Why would you believe they would give you money once you’re out of their country. You are no longer their problem.

    • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      Believe you are going to be deported anyway but have some trust in “law” so do this so you get something to help you and your family out of it.