I have written before about the incredible length that some people will go in order to get scammed, sometimes even unwittingly becoming "partners in crime" with the scammers in order to rob... themselves! They will sometimes go to incredible lengths to hide their own activity, in a very similar way as a criminal would do, except that these victims are not robbing someone else's money, they are "robbing" their own money, and sending it to the scammers, avoiding every possible safety measure and hurdle along the way.
Recently I saw a CNN investigative piece about these scams, and the opening was incredible: It showed a police officer having to physically stop an older scam victim from inserting more banknotes into a bitcoin machine, with the victim trying to forcefully, almost desperately, insert even more banknotes. The cop had to literally block the slit on the machine with his hand to stop the woman from doing so because she wouldn't listen.
And when the cop very clearly said to the woman "you are being scammed", her response? "No, I'm not."
Just let that sink in: Not some stranger nobody, not even a worker of the store in question, but an outright police officer in uniform tells her to stop and that she is being scammed, and her response is "no, I'm not", and desperately trying to insert even more of her own money into the machine.
Some victims are truly beyond help. They have to literally be physically restrained by authorities in order to stop them from being scammed.
Some people in the comment section said that there becomes a point when it's hard to have empathy for such people. When some people go to so extreme lengths to get scammed, when they outright refuse to listen to reason even when it comes from authorities, they just are beyond all help. Those commenters might have a point.
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