Trusting The Wrong People: Think More Like Spock

John Wasik, Forbes
Wed, 04/18/2012 - 2:56pm

Sometimes it?s much easier to swindle people you know than it is to cold call for future victims. The experts call this affinity fraud. Yet it never seems to go out of style because by our very nature most of us are trusting. All too often, operators victimize a religious community.

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