Mark Frank

You can send a message now to 100 million people, and if you get 0.01%, that's still 10,000 people who will maybe send you $1,000, and all of a sudden you've got $10 million.

Part of the reason why cons work is because we want them to work.

We want to believe we're getting the deal, we're getting the special thing.

There's always this arms race with the scammers.

As a scam is discovered, something to deal with it comes up.

The scammers come up with something to defeat that.

And then the scam catchers come up with something to catch them.

We see this ability in the great apes, right?

If you drop a bunch of fruit in front of a chimpanzee, that chimpanzee will look around.

And if nobody sees it, he's going to hide some away.

They're really good at identifying your motives, and they feed those back to you.

It's one of the things that gives you the confidence and makes you feel they understand you.

Social media, AI, the world being connected has turbocharged this.

You can send a message now out to 100 million people

And if you get 0.01%, that's still 10,000 people who will maybe send you $1,000, and all of a sudden you've got $10 million.

This is something the face-to-face scammer can't really pull off.

There are some people who haven't heard of, you know, Nigerian princes finding a person of outstanding character like you to help them.