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@pluralistic wrote a blog post about how he discovered scammers posing as the a restaurant's official website, taking orders at a 15% markup, and placing the order on the actual website.

"To be fair to these scammer asshole ripoff creeps who are trying to steal from my local mom-and-pop, single location Thai eatery, they're just following in the shoes of Doordash and Uber Eats, who did the same thing to hundreds (thousands?) of restaurants during lockdown. Doug @Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to #GoMeta - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things. These parasites have turned themselves into landlords of someone else's home, collecting rent on a property they don't own and have no connection to."