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denton-scratch on Oct 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitt...

> doing something innocuous. They transfer it to the scammers either via cryptocurrency

Whoah. Do you mean there are people that think cryptocurrency is "inoccuous"? I mean, I know there are inoccuous uses; but if someone "official" tells you to use a cryptocurrency account, that is very definitely occuous.

denton-scratch on Oct 14, 2021 [–]

Sorry for replying to self.

TIL: I have been spelling "innocuous" wrong since forever. It's apparently the negating prefix "in-", and the Latin word "nocere" (to harm).

So I should have quipped "that is very definitely nocuous". Or not quipped at all.

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