The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
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The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
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Re: The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
#2see also "cooling the mark out"
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#4> What really annoys me in these situations is how the institutions show loyalty to the people who did research misconduct.
"Loyalty" means different things to different people, and not necessarily "doing what that party wants".
So, if you don't call this "loyalty", it might be easier to imagine more of the possible/likely reasons for doing something that coincides with what that party wants, in an instance.
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> This just happened to me a few days ago: Apparently the Web 3 crypto-bros get huffy when
Or the crypto-bros know it's a scam, but want to be the scammer, and you're the heckler who is scaring away the new marks.
Which is potentially different than a mark who is in denial.
Though I'd guess a lot of people are arguably in both Venn diagram bubbles: they're consciously trying to be a scammer, but they're also useful idiots for the much bigger scammers (and quite possibly also fleeced on the way out).
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#7Seems like this relates to many other areas of human interaction, politics comes to mind for one ...
Re: The immediate victims of a con would rather act as if the con never happened
#8see also "cooling the mark out"
I was not familiar with this term and found this blog post that explains it: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/10/31/cooling-the...
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#9Has anyone explored being the victim of a con and being a victim of other forms of abuse? For example, people who were beaten as children by their guardians also get angry when informed their guardians were abusive for doing so. People who get really upset when told their significant other is being controlling, manipulative, neglectful, etc.
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> This just happened to me a few days ago: Apparently the Web 3 crypto-bros get huffy when Or the crypto-bros know it's a scam, but want to be the scammer, and you're the heckler who is scaring away the new marks. Which is potentially different than a mark who is in denial. Though I'd guess a lot of people are arguably in both Venn diagram bubbles: they're consciously trying to be a scammer, but they're also useful i…
Scamming people into becoming part of a scamming-pyramid is how lots of these larger-scale scams work. See also: the business/life/whatever "coaching" industry. The real money's not in coaching ordinary folks, it's in coaching (i.e. scamming) coaches, including convincing people to become coaches so you can scam them.