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kleinbl00 · 3056 days ago · link · · parent · post: I trolled my IRS scammers for weeks. I learned something really dark.
I'm not so sure about "dark" - I mean, scams are designed to take advantage of our innate sense of guilt and/or greed. From a performance standpoint, the low-level conman is deliberately refining for stupid. From a social darwinism standpoint, you've got guys running an 800-seat VoIP scam out of a sweatbox call center in Bangalore vs. fat dumb americans willing to believe that the IRS takes payment in iTunes gift cards. You can say "vulnerable" but one man's "vulnerable" is another man's "fuckin' idiot."