[watwut]

I would blame the business people for being so gullible too.

[bigstrat2003]

There's some blame there, sure. But generally people would agree that between a con man and his victims, the con man has the greater moral failing.

[watwut]

In general yes. But here we talk about businessmen who are paid quite a lot of money literally to make decisions like these.

It is kind of like when a cop allows his gun to be stolen. Yes, the criminal is the guilty, but also the cop was the one person supposed to guard against it.