Commentary
Even in good economic times, scams, rackets, and cons always threaten regular people. But in bad economic times such as our own, they swarm around us like never before. These days, it’s extremely difficult to tell real from fake. Even for sophisticated people who believe themselves to be beyond this, there is always a scenario that will trip them up.
I’ve written about scams for years. Especially since our lives migrated to the digital realm, and data leaks and theft became a way of life, we have been inundated. This is getting worse now that most of our phone numbers have leaked to massive databases built and shared by criminal and quasi-criminal organizations the world over….