Reply #144: Another disgusting thread

[Lydia Leftcoast]

where people get all superior about the "dumbass" who fell for this scheme.

Well I have news for all of you "buyer beware" types out there: taking advantage of people's stupidity to run a con operation is ILLEGAL.

The reason is that there ARE people who, through no fault of their own, are naive and gullible. Maybe they're borderline retarded. Maybe they're just impulsive. Maybe no one ever told them different. Maybe they're in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

The gullibility does not lessen the guilt of the criminal. It's actually WORSE to take advantage of a naive person.

Can you imagine a defendant saying, "But Your Honor, my victim was stupid, so I had a right to swindle him?"