Imho, the only folks who get ripped off in these schemes are ones who are trying to beat the system to begin with.
I am not going to win a lottery I didn't enter.
I am not going to get an application for a .005% home loan approved when I never applied.
I know that it is illegal to but prescription drugs without a prescription.
I know that no guy in Nigeria really wants to send me 200bazilliion bucks that were left when the president of that oil company died.
If I give someone my credit card number, they are going to charge something to it.
The folks that succumb to the scams are just as bad as the folks trying to perpetuate the scams.
From "If you see the buddha on the road, Kill him"
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I remember early in my practice treating men who "used" prostitutes. All they had to do to control these women was to give them some money and they could manipulate them into doing whatever they wanted. They coould make a whore not only do any sexual trick they commanded, but could get her to be nice to them as well. If such men couldn't buy love, at least they could rent it. The women needed the money. The men had it. The women had to give in. The men were contemptuous, superior, in control.
Later in my practice, I began to treat some hookers and strippers. They made it clear to me that the Johns with whom they dealt were suckers. Give them a little sexual excitement, and you could get them to pay all the money they had. Men were so easy to control. I now feel that trying to identify who is controlled, and who is being controlled, is six-five, pick 'em. And when I try sorting out who is the victim and who the perpetreator of manipulation, I can't tell the knife from the wound."
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Or as Robert Heinlein would say TANSTAAFL
