nikitonsky: Would you like to update your title to “No thanks”?

Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska (© Wander Photography/Getty Images)

I might be slowly turning more lucid. Things are starting to take on a repeat. I was scanning mildly old tech news feeds and time travelled to old school 2012 high school.

There was a certain Kony 2012 of worldwide acclaim around that time too (randomly tangential but true).

Shakespeare’s Globe, London, England (© Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (© Ajith Kumar/Getty Images)

Joshua trees under the Milky Way, California (© Chao Zhang/Getty Images)

Wild baby rabbits in spring (© Fiona McAllister Photography/Getty Images)

Zion National Park, Utah (© Simon Dannhauer/Getty Images)

Hot air balloons over Göreme Historical National Park in Cappadocia, Türkiye (© Anton Petrus/Getty Images)

I’ve been thinking about scams lately. The most elusive are both scams and not scams, i.e, scamming from the “superposition” (if you will).

Scammers thrive on confusion. If large groups of people say that a scheme worked, and others the exact opposite, then something’s phishy.

What makes ponzi, miracle man, and “dead donkey” scams truly ingenious is that victims may defend the scam. Since it did work or losses were minimal, the misdirection is completely on autopilot.