In Reply to: The point was . . . posted by Christopher Witmer on July 7, 2007 at 09:26:23:
If someone is an out-and-out liar and does not mind selling his soul for 30 pieces of silver, modern communications technology makes scamming people an easy way to "earn" a good living. Here in Japan the various Nigerian scams are not so bad a problem due to the language barrier, but Japan has its own equally unbelievably stupid scams that people keep falling for. There is a sense in which the scams are not stupid -- they are well contrived, and based on a keen understanding of human psychology -- but one would think that with the HUGE amount of publicity devoted to alerting people to these scams that the scams would just disappear for lack of fish that bite . . . yet there are indeed people that keep biting regardless of how much publicity the problem is given. You don't want to blame the victim, but the stupidity of people -- including some very smart and successful people -- is truly amazing.
Now if we could just find out who those people are and get them interested in hi-fi audio . . .
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- By the way, the number of people who still continue to fall for Nigerian scams is amazing - Christopher Witmer 09:38:01 07/07/07 (2)
- if you want to find people willing to fall for that stuff... - stuck.wilson@gmail.com 15:12:56 07/07/07 (1)
- RE: if you want to find people willing to fall for that stuff... - eso 19:34:18 07/07/07 (0)