Scams

I have to wonder if there are actually people who are naive and/or stupid enough to still fall for the overseas "we have money that belongs to you" scams. Some people must be that dumb because I still see them in my spam box now and again. They wouldn't continue if they weren't getting something out of it. I mean, seriously, if you've never been to a country before and don't know anyone in that country, why they hell would you believe someone has money that belongs to you there? Why the hell would you send your personal information to someone in another country considering how often stories about identity theft air on the news? Are people just that damned desperate in this crap economy that they'll believe anything?

It's not just people in other countries, either. There are people right here in the USA who are preying on people who are out of work and in desperate need of funds. I keep seeing all of these "job listings" where you basically have to pay people to teach you how to scam others with phony advertising blog posts. Amazon's Mechanical Turk site is always full of those kind of things. Then there are the sleazy "dating" sites which are apparently paying people to go onto those sites and send emails through them and that sort of thing. One of the freelance sites I'm on constantly has listings where people are looking for graphic artists to doctor images for their product's before and after shots.

It's sad, really, that people will set aside all ethics and morals for a few bucks.