The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
<i>The victims didn&#x27;t come forward because they felt so ashamed about falling for the con.</i><p>This is such an interesting essential part of scams. I guess it&#x27;s a part of human nature.<p>I remember tracking down a phone scam that caught my grandmother once (based out of Montreal) and I eventually got to a point where I discovered that my grandmother had provided a verbal consent over the phone that had kept it just this side of being outright fraud. The scam company played a recording of it for me.<p>I wasn&#x27;t sure this wasn&#x27;t fabricated, so I tried to confirm with my grandmother and she was just like, &quot;Well, thanks for all your help, honey, but really this isn&#x27;t that important. Let&#x27;s just move on.&quot;<p>I recognized how pushing it would just cause her unnecessary pain. So I dropped it and we moved on. Good to know there are people like Felipe around helping to keep things in check.<p><i>Now when Felipe just lives his life or goes out in the world, he can&#x27;t help but think everything can be a con, and everybody can be a mark.</i><p>Yeah, I guess I see the world more or less the same way. And I suppose it makes me a little unusual. Hopefully not too cynical.