Today's Topic
Do You Have an Experience
of Being Cheated That
Traps You into Big Trouble?
Nowadays, it seems that cheaters are becoming smarter and smarter, trapping us into troubles with their deceitful tricks. Sometimes, we even couldn’t stand up to such varied and fast-changing tricks.
Experience of
being cheated
“I made $10k in a month”
A guy told his experience on Youtube:
The “offer” consisted of a “self-published self-help book”. You know the kind, it’s a tier lower than self help books and a tier lower than self published, it’s the kind that is a pdf on some sketchy pdf selling site.
So i bought the “book” (i.e. pdf) and after downloading I opened it with anticipation. Basically it was one page with 4 lines and the gist saying that “Make a pdf in which you instruct people to make a pdf, to then sell it for $10 as a book that will teach you how to make 20k a month without working for it.”
I though it was so cheeky, plus there was no return policy from the store or the payment method that I used, that I figured he deserved it if he was able to play me that good.
I remember sitting at my desk and laughing and thinking “that motherf*cker” for at least half an hour...
Some
cases
Be serious about
“scam”
In reality, many of us may have been fooled by scams, and believed in it at the very beginning. So that’s why we should be more serious about such “successful scam”:
people tend to obey authorities so scammers use, and victims fall for, cues that make the offer look like a legitimate one being made by a reliable official institution or established reputable business.
scams exploit basic human desires and needs, such as greed, fear, avoidance of physical pain, or the desire to be liked, in order to provoke intuitive reactions and reduce the motivation of people to process the content of the scam message deeply.
Scams are often personalised to create the impression that the offer is unique to the recipient.
Scammers ask their potential victims to make small steps of compliance to draw them in, and thereby cause victims to feel committed to continue sending money.
Scam victims are less able to regulate and resist emotions associated with scam offers. They seem to be unduly open to persuasion, or undiscriminating about who they allow to persuade them.
Do you have an experience of
being cheated that traps you into trouble?
Just share your views with us!
Source | 环球时报英文版
