Ripe for the picking

When Grandpa clicks, hardcore affiliate marketers smile

One thing we don’t talk about much when we talk about Hardcore — our term of art for the ragebait emails that lure your senile relatives to rightwing garbage sites — is its inextricable connection with other sorts of scams, particularly having to do with medical concerns common among their elderly marks: Low vision, mobility issues, diabetes, etc.

The po…