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We are the Children has learned that if something seems too good to be true, it probably. Why are we so vulnerable to get-rich-quick-fraud? It is human nature, experts say.”We are hot-wired meet certain ways. Everyone is a potential victim,” said Les Henderson, Sudbury, Ontario, author of “Crimes of Persuasion”.

The Federal Trade Commission estimated that nearly 25 million Americans - 11 percent of the adult population - the victims of deception of consumers each year.

We are driven by fear and greed. “If you, in foundations, that decisions are taken, it is the prevention of pain and pleasure to win,” said Darrin Farrow, a manager of wealth in Westlake, Ohio.

We all think we are something special. Pyschologists you call the idea that we are all above the average, a “self-serving bias.” These leaves blind spots.

We believe that our friends. The so-called fraud with an affinity with artists following a church, country-club or another community and convincing victims to friends and families in the system.

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