What would you do?

[Diana]

I've run into many such situations. Never has one been legit. (it's nice to hear nobody is a fool around here).

In my opinion, it has nothing to do with being a fool, or being fooled.

If I give, I give freely, with no judgments. If the person I give to is a homeless drunk, and the drunk wants to buy whiskey with the money I give, that's fine by me. Who am I to judge what they do with my gift? For all I know, that whiskey was exactly what they needed to get through the night and survive to do something wonderful later on. But this is beside the point. When giving, give freely with no attachments. If you are attached to the gift you have given, you may enmesh with the karma of the person you have given to.

Let's look at the scammer on the street. First, let's realize that the life of such a person is not ideal. Who would want to live that way, really? When someone just gives them something with no judgment at all (which means the giver isn't fooled because they don't care either way), then the scammer takes the money without the idea that they have fooled someone (even if it is only subconscious), and they are only left with the idea that the person shared their gift nonjudgmentally. In other words, they haven't received money because they fooled someone, rather, they received money because someone cared enough to share what they had. This sort of difference might shift the scammer.

Not that that would be my purpose at all--to shift the scammer. I just give freely when I do, and because this is an STO action, with no attachment to outcome, the flowing of resources expands, rather than staying contracted.