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>A vocal community has been calling out the blatant scams and corruption for years. The information was readily available to anyone doing even the most basic due diligence.

Successful scams are like successful cults, nobody has ever joined a harmful cult thinking that they are joining a harmful cult. A good scam will never seem like a scam to the victim. The biggest risk factor in falling for a scam is believing that it can't happen to you.

The blatant scams and corruption are actually an incentive for many people who believed that they would be the beneficiaries of the scam, not the victim.



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