I of course don‘t have data to back this up. But, I think, a lot of it comes down to how you approach these sorts of situations. According to my experience, how

I of course don‘t have data to back this up. But, I think, a lot of it comes down to how you approach these sorts of situations. According to my experience, how open you are - and stay - in kind-of-sketchy situations will get you a long way in dealing with people that others might have just written off as „someone trying to scam me“. That actually reminded me of a really cool poscast episode I listened to this week: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance (A guy trying to get to the bottom of an indian call-center scam, leading to all sorts of pleasant interactions along the way)