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The thing that got me with this is that it somehow went from "I've got a $3,000 bill I need to pay" to her transferring $10,000. Is my family weird, or is that something that most people would just do? I mean, even taking out the whole scam bit, do people actually just hand out that type of money without a serious conversation about what exactly is going on? I'd be really worried that there was some sort of gambling or drug problem behind something like that, I'd be dropping everything to make real contact and figure out what's going on.
I could well be. All of these scams seem to prey on some sort of anxiety, and often on people trying to do the right thing.
I wonder how much we could reduce scams if we focussed on helping people with managing finances and dealing with financial systems, instead of focusing on "personal responsibility". It seems like scams used to focus on greedy people looking for a get rich quick scheme, now they target people who are just trying to manage day to day, and with all of the changes we've made to how things work it's not easy to keep up.