Re: Are religious people more vulnerable to scams?
Undoubtedly.
Scams using religion as a lure to get people to invest money have taken in about $1.8 billion over the last three years, according to the Washington-based North American Securities Administrators Association.
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/InPerson/MajorPerson/affinity.htm
What is often unrecognized, as well, is that victims of religious based affinity fraud generally lose far more than just the money.
They have had their core beliefs challenged. i.e. having been conned into believing God was involved, or God would want them to participate or whatever line the scammer/s was using, they are then left with massive questions WRT their entire core belief system, as well as the obvious loss of money/trust/self respect.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
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