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> Instead of closing it, I pretended that I couldn’t see the case on my end and even sent doctored screenshots of the case not showing up. You can handle a pot
by neilv 3y ago
> Instead of closing it, I pretended that I couldn’t see the case on my end and even sent doctored screenshots of the case not showing up.
You can handle a potential scammer without behaving like a scammer yourself.
You might want to be known as a person who's always honest, not a person who tries to decide when it's OK to act dishonestly.
(In this case, it sounds like the writer guessed correctly that the other party was a scammer. But no one can always guess correctly. And I can imagine even that example situation turning out in a way in which the writer would've gotten into significant legal trouble.)
- VHRanger 3y agoThanks, Immanuel Kant
- neilv 3y agoFor people who have different ideas of what's good practice in normal life, maybe a helpful exercise is to imagine that example in a business context: "Bob, uh, did you say you doctored a document from a regulated financial institution? And passed it off in a representation in a business transaction? It was inter-state commerce? And you think the transaction might get disputed, and be investigated? ... OK, I think we need to go talk with Legal right now." Of course, just because something is bad in the conventions of business, doesn't mean it should be considered bad outside of business. But thinking about why it's considered bad in one set of conventions could be helpful.