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Partly this is the fault of other so-called anti-scam groups – amateurs or fakes! They propagate the idea that once you learn about scams by looking at an endless stream of stolen photos that you will be immune from being scammed again. Unfortunately, this is also a scam.
FIRST THING
Let’s figure what it means to be scammed: To be scammed is to be deceived and to change your actions to comply with the direction of the deception.
Do you remember how parents will deceive when feeding a baby? “Open wide here comes an airplane” Well, in the purest sense that is a scam. A harmless scam, unless you consider how children associate eating with airplanes!
ACCEPT IT – YOU WILL BE SCAMMED AGAIN
Not necessarily another romance scams, but some form of a scam.
It is vital to recognize that you will be scammed again. It is going to happen. In fact, you are scammed almost every week! Sometimes every day!
You are scammed by politicians, by the news media, by social media posts, by products that we buy, by your kids, your mates, and your friends. Everybody spins the truth sometimes. It is what makes us human – we are all storytellers. But some are profound liars!
Of course, those are not all BAD SCAMS – but some definitely are!
When you feel compelled to buy a particular brand of product at the store – that is a scam. When you believe a half-truth told by a talking head on the news that is a scam. It is social engineeringSocial Engineering Social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. It is used as a type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional "con" in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme. It has also been defined as "any act that influences a person to take any action that may or may not be in their best interests." at work on your brain.
WHY DO PEOPLE DO IT?
Because those entities – people, companies, government – are all using social engineering techniques to manipulate you into doing what THEY want you to do. Most of them want some of your money.
Sometimes what they want is good for you, sometimes it is not!
Some just want your support to do what is right, others want you to stay a victim so they can control you!
IT IS INEVITABLE
So, we can agree that scamming is inevitab