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How Could She Be So Gullible?
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One of the problems with these type of cases is that one views it subjectively (heck that is human nature). "I would never fall for that" - in reality, I wouldnt pay someone like that £3.20 never mind £320,000. But we are viewing it through our spectacles in the position we are in. There is much to be said for not judging someone unless we have walked a mile in their shoes.
I think we are ALL a little susceptible to lies and half truths - particularly if they touch on what we want to believe. After that, it is just a question of degree.
I think we are ALL a little susceptible to lies and half truths - particularly if they touch on what we want to believe. After that, it is just a question of degree.
Funny you should mention a book !
The art of distraction is alive and well and you really need to be on your guard, I dont care who you are.
The high court judge was pottering in the front garden when a lady with a lovely little girl appeared. She said she was collecting hardback books for a local hospice. (This was only after glancing into the hallway and seeing a bookcase). After chatting about books the lady asked if she could be so rude as to use the Judges loo. Of course she couln't refuse.
The little girl stood her ground in the garden and talked to the judge asking her what plants were in the garden .. this was the only thing that gave any suspicion .. Why would a 6 year old be inquisitive about plants ?
Anyhow the lady returned from the loo, a hardback book was handed over for a good cause and that was that !
She waved goodbye and thought what a lovely little girl!
End result .. purse, cash, bankcards and jewelry cleared out !
.. 'I never thought it would happen to me' .. at almost every crime I heard those words !
The lady involved in scam in the original post had that kind of money to lose, most victims dont, but that doesn't stop them being scammed. I have visited many people who have just lost ther lives savings, it doesn't matter whether it is £300K or £3K, it is still devastating.
Much of it goes unreported as people dont want to be seen as gullible.
The art of distraction is alive and well and you really need to be on your guard, I dont care who you are.
The high court judge was pottering in the front garden when a lady with a lovely little girl appeared. She said she was collecting hardback books for a local hospice. (This was only after glancing into the hallway and seeing a bookcase). After chatting about books the lady asked if she could be so rude as to use the Judges loo. Of course she couln't refuse.
The little girl stood her ground in the garden and talked to the judge asking her what plants were in the garden .. this was the only thing that gave any suspicion .. Why would a 6 year old be inquisitive about plants ?
Anyhow the lady returned from the loo, a hardback book was handed over for a good cause and that was that !
She waved goodbye and thought what a lovely little girl!
End result .. purse, cash, bankcards and jewelry cleared out !
.. 'I never thought it would happen to me' .. at almost every crime I heard those words !
The lady involved in scam in the original post had that kind of money to lose, most victims dont, but that doesn't stop them being scammed. I have visited many people who have just lost ther lives savings, it doesn't matter whether it is £300K or £3K, it is still devastating.
Much of it goes unreported as people dont want to be seen as gullible.
One of the other points about fraudsters is that they know how to seem nice. You don't feel like you're falling victim. Which, you know, makes sense: it wouldn't really be fraud if it were so transparent to the victim what was going on. They're fooled, because *this* time it's real: true love, true friendship, true trustworthiness, whatever it is. And it always feels like *your* fault for not trusting them, or for doubting them, for impugning their honour.
I find it hard personally to sympathise with the idea of ever giving away what, to me, feels like an unimaginable sum, but there we are: scale, I suppose, is relative. I've been stupid over smaller amounts, and lived to regret it.
I find it hard personally to sympathise with the idea of ever giving away what, to me, feels like an unimaginable sum, but there we are: scale, I suppose, is relative. I've been stupid over smaller amounts, and lived to regret it.
// Do you ever get bored of trolling, APG?//
ladies--- please - - stop squabbling
and for the record I dont think it is trolling - quasi troll or minitroll perhaps not even that - teasing
Poor subject of the thread - I just feel sorry for her - wake up and think - "well I am still short of £300k that I worked my life for ...."
I / we were set up - a do gooder said can you give this fella odd jobs which we did. And he started stealing almost immediately. He found spare keys probably in the glove box of the car. and one evg I heard the door click. He had let himself in. Oh hello mate I didnt realise you were here
"well I am"... completely freaky. [I understand it is more cuckooing]
there is alot of - "if I were 30 y yougner no one wd do this to me"
The do gooder was nailed to the wall and told that this do-gooding must cease - forthwith !
ladies--- please - - stop squabbling
and for the record I dont think it is trolling - quasi troll or minitroll perhaps not even that - teasing
Poor subject of the thread - I just feel sorry for her - wake up and think - "well I am still short of £300k that I worked my life for ...."
I / we were set up - a do gooder said can you give this fella odd jobs which we did. And he started stealing almost immediately. He found spare keys probably in the glove box of the car. and one evg I heard the door click. He had let himself in. Oh hello mate I didnt realise you were here
"well I am"... completely freaky. [I understand it is more cuckooing]
there is alot of - "if I were 30 y yougner no one wd do this to me"
The do gooder was nailed to the wall and told that this do-gooding must cease - forthwith !
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