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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 14, 2023

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There’s lots of face to face fraud in America, and many of them are literally gypsies.

More sophisticated scams through fake charities and welfare fraud are also pretty common. Then there’s also cybercrime, both less sophisticated eBay scams and more sophisticated identity theft. Oh, and there’s also an online dating scam where the ‘girl’ reveals ‘herself’ to be 16 after getting the mark to engage in sexting, and demands hush money.