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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 3444093, member: 15588&quot;]Confirmation bias is a very difficult thing to fight against, because people tend to believe what they want to believe despite evidence or examples to the contrary. In these cases, people who get an idea in their head usually hate &quot;expert opinion&quot; that contradicts their lofty and generally unrealistic goals. That&#039;s what the majority of &quot;get rich quick&quot; schemes exploit. They tell you that you can find dazzling riches that few people know about from simply searching through circulated coins or pocket change. Deep down people simply <i>want to believe it</i>. For those who don&#039;t know any better, who wouldn&#039;t want to believe that? They may have friends or relatives who had some luck in casinos or lotteries and they think, it happened to those regular folk, so it&#039;s just a matter of time for me. The scammers also likely have a trove of stories of people who found unbelievable rarities <i>right in front of them</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, others may have failed, but people also want to believe that it will be <i>different for them</i> because they&#039;re smarter, more dedicated and have &quot;better luck&quot; than others. Schemers play on this psychology as well. For people caught in such mental traps, expert opinion won&#039;t sway them a nanometer because they&#039;re on a mental high that&#039;s hard to crack. They&#039;ve been duped, in other words, and they will usually find out the hard way. Confirmation bias remains one of the toughest things to crack in all of human psychology. Playing on it works too well.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in the end, there is always a chance, albeit <i>a very small one</i>, that it will happen to someone. It very likely has. Despite the microscopic odds, this makes it even harder to argue against someone caught up in some nasty scheme. Such scams will probably endure as long as humans dwell in the universe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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