Saturday, April 2, 2022

About Scams and Scamsters

Watched a documentary on Gerald Cotten and it did seem that sometimes real life stories are more interesting than fiction. You can read about it here: 

What really happened to Gerald Cotten? Netflix’s new true crime documentary, Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King, looks at the millionaire’s mysterious death | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)

Attached to above article, I found below one about another scandal. Tells how we are all living in the midst of frauds. 

What happened to Sarma Melngailis from Netflix’s Bad Vegan? The former raw vegan restaurateur from Pure Food and Wine is keeping under the radar, but will she open another eatery again? | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)

Reminds me of another fraud story I read a few months back, about Anna Delvy

Who is Anna Delvey? The true story of fake socialite portrayed in Netflix’s Inventing Anna (yahoo.com)

Talking about scams and scamsters, recently a businessman tried to dupe me of a large sum of money. I was not foolish but I was not cautious too and now I am going to the court to sue him. I have thought about how I could be duped because I know that we should not easily trust people, and I have come to the conclusion that at the end of the day, I did not value money over human trust. I had a suspicion about what if the person does not return the money as promised, but I still went ahead with the transaction because somewhere I did not "value" money that much. I have tried to tell me that it is a weakness and I need to get over it. But, at the same time despite all our precautions, scamsters do scam us with their nice words and all once in a while.