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scammers
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct [...] intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men') at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')".
So I got scammed with a really good looking fake item on eBay, a box set of DVDs, and I reported it to eBay, and they said everything looked fine to them.
The DVDs are garbage, a lot of them won't play, and the video looks like garbage. Thankfully my credit card will handle the situation, and...
So, this is a reoccurring issue that has resulted in many threads here. Just now I was trying to track down a particular variant of a S&W revolver and came across two "vendors" with them in stock, with a third that I found that was an obvious rip-off site. The two that weren't quite as blatant...
Have you noticed the massive increase in new gun websites that have a miraculously large amount of ammunition, powders, and primers in stock at yesteryear’s prices? Maybe the better question is, how could you not have noticed?
One of the biggest impacts from Covid, coupled with Brandon taking...