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Message:: [QUOTE="Mule, post: 561336, member: 18075"]jgreenhood, you can't save dumb people from being dumb, but you can save misinformed people from being misinformed. More to the point, you can certainly (and in my opinion have a duty to) protect vulnerable people such as those with learning disabilities, or older people who may be getting confused, from the difficulties their situation can get them into. We don't know whether the hapless lady in question fitted into either of those categories or not.  I'd have to agree with stainless for saying something may not be legally wrong, but nor is it ethically right. I suppose to most of us it sounds quite amazing that someone could be "misinformed" enough not to click that gold coins were worth more than their face value, but speaking as a Briton, there may be a few Britons alive old enough to remember when Sovereigns were legal tender at £1 face value. To these people, now very old and possibly getting confused, it would seem the most natural thing in the world to try and cash some sovereigns, but you'd need to be incredibly cold-hearted to just let them.  Mule[/QUOTE]