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How Gullible Are You?
Have you been scammed? Taken to the cleaners by fake phone calls or emails? Join the growing crowd.
Throughout human history, there have always been evil and heartless humans who have preyed on the weak, the defenseless, and the gullible.
The advent of the internet has opened the floodgates for scammers, scumbags, and other heartless bastards who prey on gullible people, particularly the elderly, the infirm and the naive. They are in the same class of perpetrators as pedophiles and those who commit violent crime; the lowest of the low!
Every day in the newspapers, there are stories of fraud ranging from internet phishing scammers who use fake email addresses to elicit personal information from victims to impersonating tax departments (Canada / USA) and a variety of other various countries to phone calls pretending to be a relative in financial distress and on and on. A complete list of modern-day scams can be seen here.
Many people who have been cheated out of considerable amounts of money, often their life savings, could have avoided being scammed if they had used a little common sense. Take the tax scam for example. Do you really believe a tax department in a western country would phone you up with the threat of an arrest warrant for unpaid taxes unless paid by…
