Getting Scammed Is As American As Apple Pie

The Lord of the Rants, Part 2

3 ways to spot a Snake Oil salesman

That doesn’t even include people who get scammed or are victims of identity theft.

Your parents warned you about “stranger danger” since you could walk, so why are so many people getting phished by hackers or sending money to Nigerian princes?

Here are three rules to determine if you’re being asked to buy snake oil, regardless of whether that person sincerely believes their own bullshit or they are sociopaths who don’t display the emotional tells of people with a conscience.

Let us consider the claims of a hypothetical, orange-tinted gelatinous bag of hot air.

How would you react to the following claims of credibility?

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