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ShakeMyHeadSadly t1_j8n3xaa wrote

"They’re being preyed upon. They’re desperate. They are either widowed, widowered, they’re lonely, and they’ve finally found someone who gives them positive attention," Windish says.

Possibly. Or a simpler explanation is that they are just fucking stupid.

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Meclizine11 t1_j8n6dg3 wrote

I think most people will have vulnerable moments, regardless of intelligence. We're emotional animals, after all

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saeto15 t1_j8nafpx wrote

Lots of smart people fall for stupid scams too. You can think you’re too smart to fall for it, but you’re not. We’re all vulnerable to something. I work in the disputes dept at a bank and hear about all the scams going around, and you’d be surprised at how sophisticated some of them are.

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