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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T15:47:48.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
  "tags": [
    "Animals",
    "Creaturefector",
    "Bees",
    "birds",
    "deceptive vegetative propagules",
    "scams",
    "mysterious book thief",
    "scammed by a cat."
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  "textContent": "If you are anything like I once was, you moved through life feeling pretty sure you were not going to get scammed. You had an eye for the desperation of a fake Craigslist posting. You were attuned to the strange formatting of a phishing email. You had not even written a book intriguing enough to attract the attention of the mysterious book thief. But then hubris got my ass, as it is wont to do, and somehow I ended up inputting my debit card information into a fake USPS website and losing around $600 in many installments of $19.99 to a man named Maurice in Georgia. (Hey, at least I didn't get scammed by a cat.)\n\nNo species is above a scam, or above getting scammed. Two recently published papers bring news of particularly creative scams that, as a bystander, made me chuckle. And now I will share them with you! I recognize my privilege here. Perhaps I would not find these scams so charming if I were the bird or bee in question. As such, the pages of Defector remain open to any victims of said scams who would like to share their stories.\n\n_Please direct all pitches to berry@defector.com._",
  "title": "This Week In Delicious Scams; Or, I Yam Not What You Think I Yam"
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