How You Get Scammed

How You Get Scammed
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Sometimes it’s a phone call or a compelling email. Possibly it is a direct message that arrives on your phone. If it catches you at the right time when you have let down your guard, you get scammed. This is the most common way that digital media are used to rob people. You can describe this as user error, naivete, or just inattentiveness.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]