Now, Folks, It's Time For "Who Do You Trust!"

Scammers, like traitors, degrade society, and their marks being dumb doesn't excuse them

So one reaction to this story in New York Magazine’s The Cut is “this woman is an idiot.” The other is what I’m going to write here.

I have no stories about scamming myself, though I do recall one evening, in college, getting a call from myself. My own name and number showed up on my cell phone—the same number keyed to that cell phone. I picked it up, ou…