Tag Archives: Scam

Scammer’s Logic

Why do “Nigerian” scammers say they’re from Nigeria?  After all, if you were running a widely known scam, wouldn’t you vary the details so you had a better chance of fooling a wider audience? Probably not.  In an interesting paper … Continue reading

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How They Use Statistics To Scam You

I guarantee you I could pick 10 stocks that would outperform the market, each year, for the next 10 years.  How? The Dow Jones Industrial Average, or the S&P 500, or Nasdaq, are stock indexes.  A stock index is a … Continue reading

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