I relate to the employment part of this. For myself co-workers will often try to get me to do their job if they can get away with it. Also there are scams where they hire you and you are to participate in some kind of money fraud (through transmitting money out of the banking system).
I think that once you've done something like that, where you acted against your intuition and you realized it afterwards, then the chance that you'll get caught in another scam is much smaller, isn't it? How do you deal with colleagues who want to pass the burden of their work on to you?
A long time ago I participated in a snowball system, I learned a lot :) The interesting thing was that the initiators were not completely wrong with the way they argued. It was basically a big game, I was parting with my money easily at that time and thought it would be fairly easy for others to part from their money (we were very young!), but I didn't count on the grim seriousness of those who knew from the start that I had fallen for a con game. I knew that too, but I didn't think it was necessary to take it so seriously.
Thanks for relating. ... Oh, and do you have any risk story to share?
Greetings!
Okay, here it goes:
I applied for a job installing alarms. The man met me outside of this office. Later I found there was eight people. I said they would pay for training after a
couple of months most of us were never paid. The said company was robbed and although I wasn't involved part of me thought it kind of fitting. The alarm company should have worked for itself... installing alarms in their own office and paying the employees. Instead they cheated me and them and got what they deserved. He basically robbed us all of our time.