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by capableweb 1439 days ago
> I know a lot of people

> The vast majority of the projects everyone

How many people are we talking about? 100? 1000?

If there is on average 20 people involved with each project who received funding, that would be 340,000 people in total. If you know 1000 people who are doing this scam, then you know 0.2% of the people involved in these projects.

To extrapolate that all the projects are similar scams to what your acquaintances are doing, seems a bit irrational.

But even so, that you know 1000 people, 100 people or even 10 people performing identical scams of government funds, seems unlikely, but even so, that you would know so many who are scammers, seems to say more about you than anything about the Horizon 2020 programme.