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Showing posts with label Nigerian Scam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigerian Scam. Show all posts

Friday, April 2, 2021

Sunk Cost Fallacies, Politicians, and the Nigerian Prince Scam

Even when all evidence clearly shows the big payday isn’t ever going to come, people still often send more and more money to the scammers. Our politics is much the same.
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I had intended this article to be about the concept of sunk cost and how it seems to be driving this entire, endless COVID-19 insanity.   “Sunk cost” simply means expenses one has already incurred that cannot be recovered. When we talk of sunk cost, it doesn’t have to mean only money; it can also be time or any other resource, including reputation. Yet just because one has already spent resources on something doesn’t mean one should continue spending on it. ...........

One year into COVID lockdowns, it is time to focus on the future when deciding what course to set. Instead, we see governors across the country repeating many of the same actions and strategies that haven’t generated the desired results, leading to even more draconian actions and demands in their ever more frantic chase of the elusive sunk cost. ..............They are chasing the sunk cost fallacy to their own ruin...............But at least the Nigerian prince victims pay for their own stupidity. In this COVID-19 disaster, innocent people pay for the bureaucrats’ blunders..........To Read More....


Friday, December 26, 2014

I'm Such a Lucky Guy

By Rich Kozlovich

Years ago I had gotten some really good news. I won the Kenyan Lottery according to an email I received from a Nigerian prince. He was holding a million dollars of my winnings and he wanted to send it to me free! And all I had to do is give him all my bank account numbers, my official address, my social security number and my mother’s maiden name in order to transfer the money! 

Well, I knew there was something really strange about that! Why would a Nigerian prince have my money from a Kenyan Lottery? Anyway - I never bought a Kenyan Lottery ticket so I ignored this scam artist who claimed to be a Nigerian prince.

But in recent months I’ve gotten notices from a Kenyan prince, who is truly concerned about healthcare in America and wants to give me and everyone else in the nation free healthcare for life! All we have to do is give him all our social security numbers and all our confidential health care information in order for him to make this possible. Are we lucky, or what?

Oh, wait….I just had a thought.  If I thought the Nigerian Prince was a scam artist why should I trust this guy who claims to be a Kenyan Prince? Well, I guess it could be worse.  What if he claimed to be Barack Obama, President of the United States?