SEC Charges Eleven in Stock Manipulation Ring

[jurisper]

That said, people are, for the most part, gullible, positive thinkers, and easily taken advantage of.

Yep. It's depressing to see how many people being scammed in these things are the kind of folk who believe that a positive attitude towards everything is the key.

As a natural sceptic, I find this view of the world nearly incomprehensible. How can you get through life believing that your attitude to the world makes a big difference to what the world does to you? How have they survived long enough to get ripped off by pennyscammers?

But I'm sure most of them are much nicer people than I am, and I don't like seeing them ripped off.