Scam
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')"."[8] Confidence tricks exploit characteristics such as greed,[8] dishonesty, vanity, opportunism, lust, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, desperation, and naïvety.Victims of investment scams tend to show an incautious level of greed and gullibility, and many con artists target the elderly and other people thought to be vulnerable, using various forms of confidence tricks.[9] Researchers Huang and Orbach argue:[1] Cons succeed for inducing judgment errors—chiefly, errors arising from imperfect information and cognitive biases.Dishonesty, often represented by the expression "you can't cheat an honest man", refers to the willingness of marks to participate in unlawful acts, such as rigged gambling and embezzlement.
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