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Incomplete Situational Awareness: Adopting the High-Risk Mindset
The Online Environment: A Fundamental Shift Our world has indeed changed. We may feel secure in our homes and familiar neighbourhoods, but online, the environment is fundamentally different. This essential shift means we can no longer afford to assume the…
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A Strategy from the 5th Century BC on Scam Avoidance
The Art of War An ancient text describing winning battle strategy contains fundamental concepts that are as true today as ever. The book has been translated into what we know as ‘The Art of War’, attributed to Sun Tzu. This…
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The Best Perspective Gives the Wisest Choice
The 3D Model An article on the FBI website describes the important work of a forensic engineer. This engineer helps courts accurately decipher the events of a crime. The engineer creates exact, accurate 3D models of crime scenes. Items are…
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The More We Look, The Less We See
There is a very strange, counter-intuitive reality of a scam situation discovered by the University of Exeter. In their study “The Psychology of Scams: Provoking and Committing Errors of Judgement’ (Crown Copyright), researchers found some unexpected results. One key finding…
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Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Scammer?
A Thinking Bias There’s an interesting bias that impacts how successful scammers are in finding potential victims. Two psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, first discovered this bias. Subsequently, it was dubbed the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Essentially, this bias describes two…
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The Spectrum of Awareness
Have you ever felt completely trapped inside a stressful moment, unable to think clearly? That feeling is Immersion. Our last blog discussed this state and its opposite, Detachment. Immersion means being completely engrossed in the situation at hand. To be…
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When a Decision Must Be Made – 3 – The Scammer’s Dream: Why Rushing is Dangerous
Emotional decisions happen immediately. This response hijacks our careful thinking process, and we default to the seemingly obvious choice instead. However, remember the rule from our previous post: fast decisions mean low knowledge. Therefore, a rushed plan often leads to…
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When a Decision Must Be Made – 2 – The Freedom of Flexibility
In our last article, we established that waiting for perfect information before making a decision is a common form of procrastination. We learned that when a deadline exists, you must make the best decision you can with the information at…
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When a Decision Must Be Made
Stop Searching, Start Deciding When we discuss gathering information for a wiser decision, you must understand one thing: we do not mean to put off a decision that needs to be made. Waiting for perfection is a recipe for disaster.…
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Can You Escape the Emotional Trap?
The Key is Space As we discussed in our last article, we can all be hijacked by emotional responses that quickly override rational thought. Emotions surge up fast. If we blurt out a response or act immediately on an urge…
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