The most dangerous scammers in this space are not the obvious ones - the memecoin grifters or flashy salesmen - but the ones who possess the ability to overwhelm both sides of your brain. The persuasive developer. The charismatic quant. The ones who sound smart, look credible, and feel trustworthy.

They don’t fit the stereotype of a scammer. In fact, they’ll often go out of their way to look like the opposite - contributing to open source, doing onchain analysis, posting thoughtful threads. Just enough to disarm you, to make you feel like, “Ah, this one’s different.”

Once people start admiring them for their technical prowess, it’s already too late - they have already been subverted. Their skepticism fades and they’ll unsuspectingly accept anything that person says, no matter how absurd - even when the evidence is staring them right in the face.