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Are people really this uninformed when it comes to buying coins?
Yes, they are really not well informed about the coins they are investing with. Newly regular person who invested in some coin doesnt research at all, all they do is to listen to what other investor who join the coins (which most are shill investor). Shilling is widespread here in this forum and it attracts investor because they taught that it was a "real" person who invested.
We cant blame them for their actions since they are new and they taught that it was all for real, once they got caught in the web of a scam coin they will learn to take some measure before they actual buy or invest in alt coins.