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Nice job there. It is easy to forget though that we're all pretty tech savvy here on hacker news. There's a ton of people out there that would see that govern
by Rickasaurus 14y ago
Nice job there. It is easy to forget though that we're all pretty tech savvy here on hacker news. There's a ton of people out there that would see that government logo and get all panicked and confused.
Even a good high school friend of mine who never got very good at computers (he's a butcher) fell for a Nigerian scam. Thankfully he was only out a couple of hundred bucks, but damn, we need a way to stop it.
- acuozzo 14y ago> Even a good high school friend of mine who never got very good at computers (he's a butcher) fell for a Nigerian scam. Please don't insult butchers. Not falling for a Nigerian scam has nothing to do with "[being] good at computers". It requires nothing more than the level-headed application of logic and reason.
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- sliverstorm 14y agoI think you're reading the quote wrong. It could just as easily have been written thusly: > Even a good high school friend of mine who never got very good at computers (he doesn't work with or in tech) fell for a Nigerian scam.
- 89a 14y agoStill don't think it has anything to do with working in tech, it's common sense.
- CWuestefeld 14y agoBeing tech-savvy is only a small part of it. Anybody who knows how the US legal system works should understand that there's no way they'd be getting a letter from the FBI encouraging them on behalf of a buyer to ship a product. And anybody with an elementary school grasp of the English language has got to recognize that whoever wrote that letter is certainly not an FBI official, and probably not even a native English speaker.