I was reading an article about internet scammers at,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-2...alians/5986076
I found this section extremely interesting.
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There was a study done by the University of Iowa in the neuroscience department, and they found there's a part of the brain in the frontal cortex that is responsible for cynicism and doubt.
"In all of us over the age of 60 this part of the brain deteriorates, obviously in different people at different rates, and they had a control group where some people were more advanced in their deterioration than others.
"They found that those with advanced deterioration in this part of the brain were twice as likely to fall for a scam or fraud than the others.
"What it implied is we lose our cognitive ability to discern what is fraudulent and what is not, and some in the control test still wanted to buy the product even after they were told it is fraud."
Which would certainly help explain how some people seem to do things that seem outright silly
(the last incomprehensible example I saw was that of a woman who took out a big loan on her house to help the guy she fell in love with from overseas on the net, and she subsequently lost her house).
Cheers,
Renato