"Brain on Fraud Apologetics" is a follow-up post by Cory Doctorow on his twitter thread (<a href="https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948906657878016" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948906657878016</a>) about how he and his friend had been scammed. The Twitter thread was discussed on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34920760" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34920760</a>