{"id":275,"date":"2025-03-03T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/why-are-people-so-easy-to-swindle\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:13:45","slug":"why-are-people-so-easy-to-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/why-are-people-so-easy-to-swindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are People So Easy to Swindle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My Substack answer <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/why-are-people-so-easy-to-swindle?utm_source=publication-search\">here<\/a>. A very short read. Not a plenary analysis. I can&#39;t say everything in a few paragraphs. Hence, no TLDR excuse accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The &#39;advance fee&#39; scam is one of the oldest in the book. Read about a recent victim in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/consumer-affairs\/hospitalised-after-scammers-stole-8000-left-me-distraught\/\">this Telegraph piece<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Substack answer here. A very short read. Not a plenary analysis. I can&#39;t say everything in a few paragraphs. Hence, no TLDR excuse accepted. The &#39;advance fee&#39; scam is one of the oldest in the book. Read about a recent victim in this Telegraph piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}