Why do people keep falling for financial scams

desperation. People are so desperate for help that they will try anything.

Just do not think, and the need for money is so important these days.

A few seconds of not thinking, and one can make a foolish move.

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People do take risks in their desire to earn. I don't think it's actually because of greed or stupidity. They take it as investments and just like any business undertakings, either you gain or lose.

I personally think, it doesn't take much time to analyze and study whatever knocks on our doors. Especially if the offer is too good to be true, chances are it is a scam. This has been proven over and over again, but still some unscrupulous websites are able to victimize people. Bad people can only fool us if we allow them to.

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It's hard to say. I still recieve endlesss emails asking me to have a job holding funds paying abroad and take 10% for myself (you will recieve a bad cheque that will bounce after you have passed the momey on as banks usually show the money available to you for a while) and lots of emails trying to get my bank account by telling me I've won how ever many millions on some lottery. If you've not entered anything there's no way you'll be winning that much! As i get so many it must work!

I think they'll be a mix of reasons why it still works, each person that falls for it may be for different mixes of reasons. Greed is probably one of them, stupidity definately. Also the personal may be new to the internet and not heard of these scams, they may be desperate and get caught up in the idea plus there may be a percentage of people who have mental conditions that do not allow them to think objectively.

I personally hate these scammers though, it's greed beyond greed. Maybe some have reasons like they can't think of any way to support their families, but for the most part I wouldn't care if the scammers suffered slow and amzingly painful deaths!

I think it is because everyone wants something for free. The idea of getting a gift card or free laptop etc, just for fillng out a survey is very appealing. I got hooked into things like that a while back, of course I didn't receive anything. I do think a lotof people hope "maybe this time it's not a scam" Although, if a survey asked for my SSN I would def. stop filling it out.

I think some of those scams are very deceiving. Don't really think it's a matter of being dumb or greedy but moreso desperate. I also don't trust sites that want me to complete surveys. I get started on a site that looks legit and before I know it they want all my personal information. I will not give out my social security to anyone online. I also don't give our main phone line out to any site online. Have another land line in the house that we use to connect to our burglar alarm so if someone calls it, there won't be any answer. Am doing 3 pay to click sites now that offer good amounts to click on sites but none wanted my social security number or home phone number. I am more than willing to work for what I earn so anything offered "free" runs me away.

I think its because scammers know how to take advantage of the situation and they know very well that during tough times more people would be more desperate to take risks just to earn something. There are actually lots of those scammers in the net and we always have to be careful not to fall for them. They actually just want easy money and after they get what they want they would try scamming more people and the cycle would just go on and on as long as they are not caught. Too bad we dont have laws against those who scam people online that is why scammers are not afraid even if they get caught cheating people online.