phil59 wrote:I repeat, this is nothing new.
This is the number that exploded, with people having had a lot of time to think, when you're stuck at home...
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I don't believe this is the main cause. The moral sense is in free fall, the cause no doubt of decades of resignation in the education of children and young people (institutions and parents). And today, these young people who were allowed to do what they wanted without showing them where the limits are, are adults.
The principle in the minds of these individuals is that if you can be scammed, then you deserve to be, you're too stupid. And if it's an institution or a company that can be scammed, then all the more reason to do it, since that's what they would also do and legally since they are part of the "system".
This is the new morality, which allows you to scam with a clear conscience.
And it is at all levels. The least underling of a hotline for wild prospecting by telephone, who hangs up on you as soon as he understands that he won't get anything from you, has the same moral sense as high-level scammers. Only their level in the ability to benefit from their misdeeds makes the difference.