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I agree that they are trading on their name to find some gullible nerd to do all this stuff.

There's enough gullible people on Facebook for scammers to make money, regardless what measure Facebook puts in place.

"People" are gullible and easy to fool in the short term, but I think it is commonly underestimated how smart "people" can be in the long term.

Is Hacker News this gullible?Not so gullible so as to take to heart what you're saying, considering that you created your account solely to deride her.

Funding tip for failing startups: when all the domestic investors have cottoned on to the fact that you're full of shit, just go abroad to find someone who's gullible and has a lot of money.

He had a particular distain for organized religion and politicians, placing both of them as evils that take advantage of the poor, gullible and uninformed.

I suppose it boils down to this "By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

"Naturally the disservice done students and gullible investment professionals who have swallowed EMT has been an extraordinary service to us and other followers of Graham.

Their use of a somewhat-known bikini model sounds like the same technique phishers use to weed out their victims: introducing typos/stories that non-gullible people would easily see as discrediting the entire ploy.

Hmm, an aggregator of business-crippling 50+% off coupons directed squarely at one-time-use, entitled penny-pinchers is not doing well after they've run through most of the gullible small businesses in the US?Go figure.

As I understand it, "whales" tend to be less "poor gullible fools maxing out their credit cards" and more "extraordinarily wealthy people that enjoy wasting amounts that seem ridiculous to us but are truly nothing but a drop in the bucket to them.