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Poorly-presented staging for a scam is part of the process - it allows you to select for only the least credulous of marks. If they fall for something that obvi
by mock-possum 1y ago
Poorly-presented staging for a scam is part of the process - it allows you to select for only the least credulous of marks. If they fall for something that obvious, then you know you can take for everything they’ve got. That’s the entire principle behind the Nigerian prince email scam.
- poincaredisk 1y ago>That’s the entire principle behind the Nigerian prince email scam. I always hear people repeating this, but in my experience this is not true. People doing mass scams are just not very competent.