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  "path": "/2026/03/a-100-dollar-gift-care-could-be-legit.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T19:02:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org",
  "textContent": "If I get an email offering me a $1000 for I DON\"T KNOW SINCE I ignore it and don't even bother looking for other signs it is a scam.\n\nIf I get an email offering me $100 dollars I may look more carefully and often they are legit (most common is to give a per-publication review of a math book---sometimes just questions, but more often a written report).\n\nMost offers I get are either $1000 or $100. Today I got one for $750 which inspired this post (I ignored the offer without checking).\n\nWhich nets more people $100 or $1000?\n\n1) If people are like me then $100 fools more people. But people like me will still CHECK CAREFULLY I sometimes feed the email into ChatGPT for an opinion to see if its a scam. (Spellcheck still things _ChatGPT_ should be spelled _catgut_.)\n\n2) Are there people who would fill out the survey (or whatever) for $1000 but not for $100? I ask non rhetorical as always. Are such people more gullible?\n\n\n\n\nWould scammers make more money if they offered $100 instead of $1000 dollars?\n\n1) More people would fall for the $100 scam. Or maybe not---do some people not bother if its only $100?\n\n2) Depending on how they are scamming you, will they get less out of it if they only offer 100?\n\nHere are types of scams:\n\n1) They send you a check for $1000 + x and say WHOOPS- please email us a check for x dollars. I've heard of this in the _Can you tutor our daughter in math?_ scam. For this one, offering 1000 nets the scammer more money since $100+x, x will be smaller than $1000+x.\n\n2) They want to harvest your personal information. For these I don't think they will gain more if they do 1000 vs 100.\n\nOne more thought:\n\n1) I said that for $100 I take is seriously but for $1000 I don't\n\n2) I said that $750 I do not take seriously.\n\n3)What's the cutoff? Obviously $289.\n\nBy gasarch",
  "title": "A $100 dollar gift care could be legit. A $1000 is obviously a Scam. What should scammers do?"
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