[quote=John McClane]the truly sad thing is that a lot of said scams are being run by people who are locked up in an indentured agreement (i.e. they must meet a quota to get their freedom again).[/quote]

[quote=Torgo][quote=Death Proof]I read an article recently that said people with narcissism were easy targets because of their personality disorder.[/quote]People like that who use social media make themselves easy targets because they share a bit too much about themselves, which is what those scammers mine to get close to their marks. Yet another reason to not use it.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]The thing that fascinates me is how often the person in question is ostensibly aware of how shady it is and falls for it anyway. I'm sure disproportionately it's ignorance, but a not-insignificant percentage of the time it's someone quite superficially smart or savvy. The logic being that those people are savvy enough to think they can't be fooled, but not savvy enough for that to be completely true.

Being super ignorant about scams is fine as long as you have the self-awareness to know you're ignorant and account for it. A savvier person with less self-awareness might be at equally high risk.[/quote]

[quote=Death Proof][quote=Torgo]
Last Week Tonight has a good story about one kind of popular scam lately called Pig Butchering, by the way.[/quote]

I deal with this stuff every day in my line of work. 

Part of the problem with pig butchering is that they target lonely people who refuse to believe the beautiful young Asian woman is actually some Indian guy working in his cousin's basement. I read an article recently that said people with narcissism were easy targets because of their personality disorder.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]no, it's an unofficial practice by the Bureau of Prisons to coerce compliance by transporting prisoners between facilities.[/quote]

[quote=Torgo][quote=John McClane]Sounds like someone who has never experienced diesel therapy.[/quote]Assuming that's not watching all the [i]Fast and the Furious[/i] movies...[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]Sounds like someone who has never experienced diesel therapy.[/quote]

[quote=The Rodent][quote=John McClane]Financial crimes are one of the few crimes I think deserves hard labor. Like clearing brush that’s gonna grow back in a year. And then we’ll make you do it again when it does type labor.[/quote]

I look forward to the day when prisons are like Midnight Express, instead of, n the words of someone I know who did time:

"Living in a Leisure Center"[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]Financial crimes are one of the few crimes I think deserves hard labor. Like clearing brush that’s gonna grow back in a year. And then we’ll make you do it again when it does type labor.[/quote]

[quote=The Rodent][quote=Yoda]Ah, bummer. Yeah there was actually a user on this site who ran a fantasy football league I was in who absconded with some prize money. Wasn't a scam exactly, the league ran for years and I got my money previous seasons and all that so it just meant people were out their prizes for the final season. But the logic was the same: surely they wouldn't completely blow up this thing for a few hundred bucks?:)[/quote]

Had something similar in the pool leagues.
A brand new team entered the leagues made of players we knew, including a captain that we all knew as well.

She was taking entry money, "subs", for months from the players, but was skipping weekly meetings with the league's organisers.

After a few months, she vanished, literally just **poof** off the face of the earth
, Facebook gone, everything... never paying any of the money her players had put in for subs.

Turns out she'd also been taking more than she should have been in the subs, and had pocketed about 6 grand of her team's cash.

Didn't here a peep for about a year, then suddenly she appeared again in a league 2 towns across, and was doing them same thing until we contacted her players to let them know who she was.
Apparently they cornered her and got their cash back in an "unpretty" way.

Last I heard she was working nearby as a barmaid after serving time for fraud.[/quote]

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