We can end email scams tomorrow. Here’s how.

Putting an end to email scams is so simple that I’ll explain the entire process in one word in the second paragraph. The rest of the article is just padding. Ready to learn what you need to do? Ready?!….

Respond.

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Now for the padding…

The scamming industry is profitable because there are three types of people:

1. People who don’t mind ruining someone else’s life to make a few bucks.
2. People who can be fooled into handing over their money.
3. People who stand by and let it happen.

Scammers, suckers, and selfish bystanders.

The scammers who steal from the suckers rely on the fact that 99.999% of people will not stand in their way. We — the selfish bystanders — will see the scammers in our inbox (or as a number next to our spambox), hunting their prey. Do we try and stop them? No. We shrug our shoulders and hit “delete spam”, or ignore it entirely.

18 scammers hunting for suckers, leave them alone or interfere?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not accusing you of being actively selfish for ignoring scam emails. I assume you’re like I was until recently, and didn’t really think…