Topic: Can someone explain ? Educated people but all they do is just scam (Read 267 times)

It is not about stereotype, that is just the obvious truth. It is quite difficult for an uneducated person to do things differently and even reach a wider audience because they have limited information at their disposal. Yea, anyone whether educated or uneducated can be a scammer and it has nothing at all to do with academic qualifications, it is a personal decision. But you see this new generation of scammers, those who have equipped themselves with the right information on how to rob people of their hard earned money, they are indeed canker worms eating us deep. Everyday they device new and easy ways of wiping people's accounts without necessarily having a one-on-one confrontation with their victims. They are quite knowledgeable in technological changes and follow these changes to get to their preys faster. To them, scamming is a career so they must put in their all.


...and how sure are you that these scammers you come across are the educated ones? Being educated goes beyond just knowing how to read and write. Most of these uneducated ones follow the pattern you've stated above, they can hardly do anything differently.  Educated scammers device new strategies everyday.

It’s funny but we should not discriminate uneducated scammers haha It's important not to stereotype. Anyone can be a scammer especially if huge amount of money is involved. It’s a temptation

I disagree. Scammers aren’t the smartest people on the internet, they are just very good at scouting and convincing people. Many of the bitcoin scammers on social media aren’t very intelligent people. They all have the same profile pattern and operate the same way. Also they do not have a good understanding of Bitcoin, and as a result are less likely to convince someone with crypto experience to invest with them, the advantage scammers have is their ability to exploit the greedy nature of their victims.

easy answer: money

i’m sure you’ve heard of people saying that a degree does not guarantee wealth nor success and they’re right this is not to discourage people going to universities but rather to address the obvious issue of how people perceive education most people do not view education for what it is: expansion of knowledge and acquisition of new skills to apply in the real world but instead they view education as a ticket to success which is why even if they are educated or are degree holders, they did not retain any of what they have learned in the past

people who graduated from universities yet still scam people probably cheated their way through college as well people say that school and the real world are different but they forget to take into consideration that people’s habits stay the same if they got the habit in school they will most likely keep doing the same things in the real world

I agree that every change should start from us, from our family and from ourselves. Because these policy and law makers are taking advantage of their situations and they're making laws based on their needs and also for their personal interests. That makes them at top and peak of their priorities rather than the people that needs their help.

I guess for most politics issue, this is no longer a dark secret and everybody knows it as we grow older and becomes aware of the situation of current events and news that surrounds us. But the only thing that we can do from these things is to start the change from our actions and even if we complain, and we see no progress, there is nothing that we can do from those policies but we have to adapt them and change ourselves for our betterment.

Scammers are not all uneducated people, both educated and uneducated people scam people. It is just that those that are educated always have a unique way of scamming people than the uneducated ones. They’ve been well established and knowledgeable of the happenings in the world, so they will always have a way to lure people into believing in whatever they present to them. Educated scammers are wiser than uneducated ones, which makes it hard to spot an educated scammer than the many times and uneducated scammer can be spotted through their loopholes.

In the world where we live now, being educated doesn't make anyone holier than thou not to commit a crime or defraud the other. The bad economy is hitting hard on everyone not minding whether one is educated or not. Some educated ones whose heart is not pure to their fellow beings use the enlightenment they have gotten from education to defraud others who must have been carried away by their lies and deception.

It's unfortunate that we all find ourselves in a situation where education that supposed to guild in solving and finding solutions to our personal life problems, some other people are using it in a bad way to scam others just to play smart and to survive in global hardship facing everyone.

Educated people are not necessarily scammers any more than uneducated people. Consider all the 'toys' we use every day in life. They were invented by educated people, even if their education wasn't formal. We should love the educated people for this rather than call them scammers... except for the few of them who are scammers, of course.

Also, I would like to add an exception when comes to education and scammers. I agree that most of the times, scammers will end up being scammers, educated or not. But if someone who is a scammer get education in some branches like coding, economics, or administration, then they are very much likely to use those skills to develop scam viruses or Malware. In the other hand, if a scammer is uneducated, the most they can do is to try to scam in a very old fashioned way, like trying to fish someone on Telegram.
In the end education and science are neutral things, which can be used either for good deeds or bad ones.

Sometimes,  most scammers are most smartest set of forks on the internet but they choose to use the smartness in the wrong directions and that,  so for sure educated or not,  what really matters is what they tend to believe and act on.

Scamming of of different classes and categories and for sure some uneducated people also scam but then they have to put in some dubious tactic that allows them to act on the minds of the victims.

When you are the policy maker and you will get to decide what is right and what is wrong so everything they do will be legal from a law point of view and ethics are just shit and useless things for them. But people get to choose them again and again that is what the problem is with democracy just like every ruling system in the world.

But what we can do is make changes in our surrounding starting from family and once everyone get into that mindset then only it is possible to have corrupt free system.

You have to understand that the attributes of good and evil are embedded in the human nature, so with  education or without it, it takes personal decision to be good or bad. This is why you'd see poor and uneducated people who have integrity and will never cheat, on the other hand you'll see educated CEO of big firms, renowned politicians being involved in dirty deals, it can also be the other way round.

In this era of internet, it's quite easy for anyone to come to social media, and claim to be anything, this is why we have to verify and be sure of the authenticity of individuals, groups or organizations before engaging with them. This days scammers are becoming more sophisticated and scheming new ways to defraud unsuspecting victims, so there's need for us to be a step ahead of their games. We have to be constantly informed.

I think education is supposed to be an enlightenment for any person out there seeking for exposure and intelligence quotient. For someone who's willing to widen his horizon of thinking and accelerate his capacity to understand a diverse approach to life. This is what education gives you.

Ordinarily, aquiring education, after all the above mentioned features, is supposed to put the learner into some shape of critical thinking, capacity to analyze and weigh things in more constructive way and the ability to solve realtime problems. Unfortunately, many have used the same knowledge they have acquired to harm peiple and negstively impart ofn the lives of people because of their ill-thinking.

These corrupt minded individuals are mostly affected by societal vices, parental upbringing and the influence of peer groups.

The Society have greatly influenced how we think overtime and one can category that as an external factor that either possitively or negatively influence the thinking faculty of people. Some people are naturally endowed with understanding and the ease of learning new things, instead of these positive attributes of the person to positively impact on them, due to the societal vices that the person is exposed to, it inversely and gradually become negative to them and their environment.

Because of the bond and love that parents try to show to their kids since from childhood, some parents negatively impart on their thoughts and instead of the love and care to make the child a better person in the society, they become too ambitious and prodigal which then negatively affect their thinking and education. Likewise, parents who do are negligent in the proper upbringing of their wards.

Last is the influence of peer groups which is also an external factor mostly gotten through the society. A wrong society breeds wrong association which now gives birth to wrong peer groups. Since education and knowledge is not a natural phenomenon but a decision that is taken by man and a proccess passed through, it doesn’t stop one from being affected by bad friends and that’s why the popular adage says, show me your friends and I will let you know of yourself. It is therefore imperative to associate and build relationship with good firends and progressive minds.

Just think of corrupt countries, the scammers and thieves are wearing coats and suits for their own presentation but we don't know that they've been doing something crazy behind the curtains of their offices. When I say something crazy, it's making the citizens suffer and crazy about how they're going to survive.

And that is because these leaders are educated, finished their degrees, got their masters and doctorate and yet they don't have ethics because all they do is trying to get easy money. I guess it's already in nature when you're able to see how easy it is to make money when you are in the position but you're robbing people's money.

That's the reason why it's like a chain reaction and people who does victimized people and rob and scam their money won't even think of any compassion to their victim because they will reason out that even the people at the top, does it.

You need to accept the fact to pull a scam the individual needs to have some creative ideas with him, but I am not backing the scam in any way just presenting the facts based on the history. Education is part of knowledge and being educated doesn't mean the user will behave ethically for the record one who has extraordinary skills in technology is pulling the hacks in the crypto industry so never ideolize that educated people are good and trusted.

The mindset of the op is as a result of people he has encounter, the op is right, educted people are into scam, and all kind of rubbish work like fraud but not all educated men, even illiterate are into scam and fraud, but in the situation of an educated man with high standard and respect involving in fraud and scam, that person is a lazy person or an idle man. Although not all educated men have a good job but scamming people is never an option.
They're just lazy to work hard and earn clean money, they choose to go the wrong way because they felt it's the best thing to do. For us not to fall victim it's better to abstain from people like that

If your here on this forum then you must have attained a level of being educated to have been here and to also adopt bitcoin, does such idealogy also has an interpretation of you being a scam, i understand it may take a certain level of being exposed or having a certain educational requirements to be able to commit some level of scam, but that's not the reason for going through education, not every educated fellow engage in scam.

If I understand you correctly, you're attempting to imply that all educated people nowadays are all scammers to uneducated people? If you're unaware, let me enlighten you little, not only educated individuals engage in scams, but illiterate people also tend to be more physically strong than educated people, making them more resilient than those in the study. Finding a graduate to be a con artist is disheartening.

We may all agree that there are lack of enough jobs in the nation, but educated people will inevitably fall victim to con artists as a result. That is deplorable. Some illiterate people are smarter and more intelligent than those who understand education, even when they have no idea what it entails.

Scam is something can be done by anyone and I am not disappointed to see that educated people are also scammers because it is ones choice to be a scammer or not. For you to be a scammer, you must be able to speak well and dress nice even though you are not educated because that is what will make people listen to you and feel that you are for real. It is even very easy for educated people to be scammers because they already know what to tell you that will make you fall for them with fake proves.

A scammer must have educated himself and would have gone through some kind of training to make sure that he can be able to convince his victim easily and you shouldn't also forget that we are humans and can easily be deceived with things that we are desperate for or have zeal on and that is what this scammers learn and use it to take advantage on their victims.  Being educated doesn't mean that you will not be who you are but instead it will bring out the best of who you are.

There is once upon a time everybody have a job and could earn living wage, where husband being the breadwinner while wife being housewife and all is great, no frauds or back-stabbing or major scams to be read or found on news. But there come the population explosion and market pie is getting smaller and smaller, people today are working toward survival, where not only husband working housewife too are required to work just to survive, why have things changed so dramatically in a span of just a few decades of strong economic growth of 10-20% annually??? Due to that create rich get richer and poor get poorer, very obvious highly educated guy notably middle classes today are resorting to scamming in life just for affording foods, they are usually a 500 dollar of shortfall away from totally broke, see most American can't afford a 500 dollar "disposable income", they often would have to beg the public for donation to make end meet!!

So long story short why smart people are scamming today but not working hard for money like the good old day? They are living an animalistic wild life in real life, they live to survive, they would do all thing in life, going out and protest, overthrow the regime etc, they could do anything. But what can you do to save yourselves, idk you gotta find the answer on your own.