[glofish]

Of course that everyone can be conned,

but smart people are more resistant - for the mere fact that they probably know more and are better versed in the goings of life -

I am surprised that anyone would think otherwise.

[majormajor]

> but smart people are more resistant - for the mere fact that they probably know more and are better versed in the goings of life -

Nah, you just run a different playbook. You gotta leverage that arrogance. Like Bankman-Fried.

[JohnFen]

I think otherwise simply because that's what the data says.

I was talking to a con artist once who took the point even further. He said smart people are actually easier to con for a few reasons.

The smarter a person is, the better they are at working out a chain of reasoning that can "prove" the con isn't a con. Since a con is appealing to human emotion, not logic, you can make a smart person want to believe the con so much that they'll work out the "proof" that it's legit all by themselves.