does this really surprise you?

After reading this article, I got into a discussion about it with a few friends. They were all genuinely surprised that scams like this exist. What bothered me, however, was that I wasn't surprised..not one bit.

People are inherently selfish, we've had endless discussions on this in class. People also love money--it's a huge fascination for many. Combine the two and you have a recipe for scams and get-rich-quick schemes.

The fact that this so prominently exists should disgust me..and to an extent it does, but it's too prominent. At this point it's pretty much interwoven into our society. We almost just have to accept it because there's no way it'll ever change.

I hate that it comes to that. I always try to be optimistic and stick to the belief that if there's something you see wrong going on you can change it, but that's not realistic. There's always going to be self-interested people taking advantage of whoever they can in any way that they can.

So the fact that scams like this exist sucks, but they're always going to be out there. At least as long as people are stupid enough to fall for them.