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drethelin comments on Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: drethelin 08 April 2014 09:06:53PM 1 point [-]

There's a style of scamming that involves seeming incompetent, such that a clever but insufficiently clever target decides that they can scam you back. This obviously backfires.