04-15-2003, 08:13 PM
Quote:How do they make a living of dishonesty by not being clever. That's just baffling.
I think it is because they continue to find victims who are similarly not clever. Furthermore, it costs them nothing to try, so if they try it a thousand times and it works once, they have made a profit. If there was an effective mechanism to punish scammers, only then will the scams become more sophisticated, through the process of natural selection.