Replies to post #7465 on SEC Charges Eleven in Stock Manipulation Ring

[ordinarydude]

"I have been scammed in my life. I don't deny it. But I learned from my mistakes. I didn't blame the scammers. I blamed myself for allowing them to scam me."

Fine. Then teach others on what or who to avoid when it comes to scams! All you're doing Phil is simply pointing out the obvious! That doesn't really solve anything. In fact many don't feel quite as confident as you do apparently---maybe they don't know what to do.

You know what to look for. If you have the keen ability to teach others your lessons in life, then do it! Make it a constructive, positive effort to teach others instead of labeling others for falling "victim" to a scam!

Ordinary

[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.