A variation on an old joke, good for using with first and second graders just learning basic subtraction:

“Sluggo, if you had five brownies and Nancy asked for two, how many would you have left?”

“Five. I wouldn’t give her any.”

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Yes, go where the money is.

Willie Sutton famously said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is,” but these days the Willie Suttons are mostly trolling the internet, looking for people to scam.

A few months ago, I read “Kenau Reeves is Not In Love With You”, by Becky Holmes. The book centers around romance scams, but also discusses other financial confidence scams. One chapter deals with the scams from the other side: the scammers are pressured / threatened by their managers to achieve certain results, much like any telemarketers.

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