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Survivorship bias in action? The only ones we hear about are the ones who are sloppy enough to get caught. The people who know how to not get caught, doesn't get caught so we never hear about them.

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Definitely. We’re certainly not living in a world where we catch more of these people than we don’t.

Exactly. We only know about the terrible ones.

It also reminds me of stories I have read of drug mules that it makes no sense how they think they wouldn't be caught using the methods they were using.

The twist of the story though is they were duped themselves. They were setup to get caught as a decoy while the real crime took place.

That sounds interesting. Where?

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