Early Internet was full of scams - trojan viruses, redirecting websites that drained your phone bills, stealing credit card numbers, etc.

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I think the ratio was different because the early Internet wasn't about financial services and making money, so the sums were smaller. But it was annoying! 

IIRC @cdixon.eth first startup was about providing safety scores for different websites.

TIL… ty. So I wonder if these illicit problems were less covered by media b/c it was “weird corner of the world, niche culture” kinda thing for a long time?

It feels media posts from that time don’t cover scams very well. They focus on illicit usecases eg porn and drugs more

Paying €10 an hour to play Air Warrior from the Netherlands to the UK through some middle man. That was on top of the phone bill.

Those two things were a scam in itself.

Air Warrior was great though. Can you imagine an online WW2 air combat sim, (massively) multiplayer in the late 80s?!