The easiest people to con are the people who think they're conning youhttps://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1340866401074958338 …
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That's the meaning of "You can't cheat an honest man", the key elements of pulling off a con - isolating the mark, creating a sense of urgency, making them willing to bypass built-in legal and social safeguards - are all way easier if they think they're getting away with a crime
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It's not a foolproof saying, though. I once *ALMOST* got hit by a con that preyed on my *desire to help people*/irritatingly overactive empathy. There's a fucking insidious variant of the 419 scam (I think?) that goes after people posting tutoring ads/offers online--
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Replying to @Felgraf_Physics
Well sure The thing is that both the desire to help and the desire to harm can be motivators in a con, but the latter usually has a little bit of built in protection (someone who thought they were doing something bad is less likely to tell people what happened to them)
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But anything that takes you out of your routine and puts you in an unfamiliar situation, including altruism, is a potential scam The most surefire way to avoid scams is to live a life of routine and avoid deviating from it either way
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