Silver_Swift comments on Attention! Financial scam targeting Less Wrong users - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 05 March 2016 08:18:01PM 1 point [-]

Isn't that fraud? That is, if you work for a company that matches donations, and I ask to give you money for you to give to MIRI, aren't I asking you to defraud your company?

Comment author: Silver_Swift 17 March 2016 11:26:49AM 1 point [-]

Correct, but it is a kind of fraud that is hard to detect and easy to justify to oneself as being "for the greater good" so the scammer is hoping that you won't care.