Teenager With Autism Fools Airline Into Thinking He Is Tycoon
July 20, 2009
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“If they were real then there would have been opportunities for us to expand our business and that’s not the sort of thing we are going to ignore.”
And that’s exactly why the “Spanish Prisoner” scam (also known as “419 spam,” the spam that claims you’ve inherited money from someone you never knew, or someone needs help smuggling money out of the country, or you’ve won a lottery you’ve never entered, etc.) still pull in the suckers hand over fist: Greed makes unethical people blind to obvious reality, and hostile to anyone who points out that they are NOT lucky winners, but rather greedy suckers.
The airline execs are greedy suckers. End of story.
[...] I found this article the other day about the teen in Great Britain who managed to completely dupe a bunch of airline executives in believing that he was a millionaire who was looking to buy into their company and expand it. The key to the attack is that greed was the prime motivator in the attack. From the article: [...]