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Phishing Scam?
So a particular scam has been going on about leofinance and how users can get 300 hive or so for signing in through a particular interface. This makes me realize that it's often difficult to resist scams nowadays especially with how it often appeals to the sentiments, the needs, wants and fantasies and finally, the inexperience of people rather than their logical side.
So does this means stupidity kicks in first at the prospect of reward for a lot of people? I don't know. One of the reasons why scam sells is because people firstly think of reward before repercussion and if the latter came before the former then it would create a sort of hesitation, a sort of doubt or a sort of caution and this is where red flags eventually kicks in.
People of course often blame inexperience or ignorance immediately they're scammed, but then it even runs deeper than that. The susceptibility to get scammed is often more psychological and one of the most underlying factor is greed. Now, I used to say greed is good. It's the motivation behind making more money and seeking for more need for achievement.
But when there's no caution or thin line to greed, this is when it becomes dangerous. Now, it can be driven by being excessively poor or excessively wealthy. The people who are wealthy don't see their wealth as a state, they see it as a progression: a means to amass more resources to acquire more wealth.
Greed: A Culpable Factor?
As for some excessively poor people, greed comes from the need to survive. Sometimes the cost of survival can be detriment. It can be at the expense of someone else. In a simpler term, the Instincts of people when it comes to survival is often animalistic. Let's take for example, a group of people who are facing the possibilities of extinction with resources which are not enough but must be shared equally amongst them.
A few people who probably have larger families unable to bear the possibilities of their children dying will want to steal the resources or ration meant for others. This is greed, even if the intent seems genuine. People like this are susceptible to taking irrational risks in the sense that they're doing it for the greater good
This is a situational theory to prove how people are often prone to greed. It drives them to be scammed. Gambling is not investing but because a lot of people mistake one for each other, it often blinds them from seeing a scam when they should have spotted it.
One of the ways through which scams are spotted is that they're always too good to be true, it doesn't follow a conventional method and it screams outrageous returns without following a due process that shows authenticity. So how then do people still fall for it? It is quite complex because it's different with diverse people.
A Situational Experience
Phishing scams will always be "a thing". This means that a lot of them will come up on hive and a lot of people will continuously fall for it for a really long time. This would not be because of Inexperience or ignorance, but this would come from people not questioning each and every prospect of reward to come their way.
I have seen posts talking about how they have been scammed and why no one is immune to mistakes, most times mistakes happens because people do not see the possibilities of mistake. At the end of the day, it takes caution to survive on the internet that is constantly evolving and people are forced to buy into mad ROI rather than solid projects.
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