Are you suspicious or trusting? and why? (55, inherit, crying)
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I sometimes see news reports about sweepstakes scams, romance scammers, etc. and I wonder how people fall for it. I have always been very suspicious of things like that. I'm not sure why - I've never been scammed, mostly hung out with nice, trustworthy people. I understand that people who have a good heart tend to believe others also have good hearts. I'm a nice person (I think) and yet I do not blindly trust what I hear from strangers. So how would you classify yourself?
I am like you. Most people I know are honest, but I know that if something sounds to good to be true, it probably isn't true.
There may be other factors at play. I know an intelligent woman who likes to post pro-military memes on Facebook. A "General" contacted her through Messenger and asked if he could be her friend because he was so impressed with her patriotism. She was totally flattered and chatted back and forth for hours a couple of times, and she told me how he thought she was such a great person, etc. I told her it was a scam and that he would eventually ask for money, but she said no, she saw his picture and everything! Then she mentioned it to her family. Her grandson was in the Army for a decade and now works as a security consultant and looked into it. The general exists, but the guy on FB wasn't him, obviously. This woman has such an ego that her intelligence was cast aside because she easily falls for flattery.
I do wonder how someone can not question it when Microsoft calls to tell you they need remote access to fix your computer or that you owe the IRS thousands of dollars.
I'm both: suspicious of authorities and government and "experts," but trusting of people (and especially those who should NOT be trusted). There's nothing I can do about it (the trusting of people who shouldn't be trusted) because I disassociate and go into denial because of trauma. I can try to be more aware, but it's really difficult because the defense mechanisms are deeply entrenched.
I am suspicious. I watch the news to much...maybe. I like to know what is going on in this country....and most of it is not good. I see people getting push in front of trains, carjacked, raped, mugged, home invasions, scammers on the phone. Lots of crime against the elderly. I am always looking over my shoulder.
Sounds like local TV news, which is hardly news at all. The only good TV news is radio.
As a woman who works evenings and was usually unescorted, I literally have always looked over my shoulder.
Early in life I learned "Everybody wants something" from me. It started in elementary school, with classmates wanting test or homework answers to later in life with co-workers wanting me to punch their time cards. Lets just say I learned to be cautious.
I think being the fourth of seven kids taught me. My older brother told me fake stories and robbed my piggy bank.
When I was a kid, I remember planning how I would escape if my family was secretly planning to kill me. Have no idea why my imagination went there, but it was satisfying to know I'd figured out how to outsmart them.
I'm friendly, but suspicious by nature (probably my Scots-Irish heritage). I'm distrustful of persons in positions of power and authority, which is why I only lasted one hitch in the Navy, and why I don't trust either political party.
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