Well look at how successful schemes like the Nigerian scam is. This scheme works by cashing in on peoples greed and entitlement. Despite all the press this scam gets people still believe that somewhere there is someone that has a bank account full of millions of dollars that they will give them and they don’t have to do a single thing to earn it. I work in fraud prevention and the more successful scams to get information from people work by playing on their greed, the person that promises to get them a phone that the company is selling for $300 for only $1 if they send him their account information, the person that calls and offers them a credit on their account or a rebate if only they will “verify” their account information, all those scams play on peoples greed.
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