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> a lot of people at that age are too trusting of strangers and of people who sound like authorities Barely yesterday, and probably again tomorrow, throngs of
by swatcoder 3y ago
> a lot of people at that age are too trusting of strangers and of people who sound like authorities
Barely yesterday, and probably again tomorrow, throngs of people in their twenties and thirties were borrowing money to buy digital tulips whenever some dude on Twitter posted a graph with a line going up and a stock photo of a Lamborghini.
The threat of being scammed is not age-specific, although the ways people are approached and coached by scammers are sometimes different.
> and let’s face it: older people have all the wealth in the world
I know this is just a popular and divisive trope that pits one bunch of struggling people against another, but you must know different "older people' than I do if it rings true for you.
- rightbyte 3y agoThe best scammers are those who convince their victims that they also are scammers.