What we can learn from con artists, scammers, and cheats
Yeah, you heard that right. While there are not many, we can learn a few things from the bad guys of the world. I'm sure you've gotten a call similar to the following recently: Hi. This is Susie calling with the vehicle service department about your car's extended warranty. It's gotten so common that it's become a joke to talk about car warranties (even though it's a real thing) and even Planet Money covered it on a recent podcast. I was listening to that exact podcast when they pointed out that these scams really do manage to convince people to share their personal info at worst, and get a terrible deal on extending their car's warranty at best. While I could kind of see it happening , I also was a little surprised at it's success, but maybe it's because I grew up as a child of the 90's alongside all the Nigerian Princes of the world trying to give their money away and wary of random phone calls from numbers with no caller ID. One comment ...