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Why phishing scales so well.

"When you're doing a con one-on-one or even conning in a pyramid scheme a few thousand, there's some sort of investment to get over the hump, whether that's having to expose yourself to possibly being busted. But the thing about phishing scams is you can send out, you know, a hundred million emails, and all you have to do is hit your most vulnerable. So whereas someone who's doing a pigeon drop scam or any of these get-rich-quick scams or even paving-your-driveway scams or any of that, you have to find an older person in their home. You have to go there. You might be bumping into an ex-law enforcement person who's aware of this stuff. There's a lot of risk. When you're sending out hundreds of millions of emails, you know, you don't need to get close to one-hundredth of 1% to be able to hit, so you can dumb them down tremendously to protect yourself. You don't want to get someone on the hook who is at all savvy."

—Penn Gillette, entertainer, illusionist, and student of fraud, on Hacking Humans, 3.5.20.

And you don't need to be Mokele-mbembe to figure that one out, friend.

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