[quote=John McClane]sometimes i wish there wasn't anything to buy on the internet. sometimes.[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Watching some of the sting videos on YouTube, many times, it seems like they get a slap on the wrist; like say getting shamed in front of a crowd, and then they are right back at it again.[/quote]

[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]