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Image credit: Shogo Narita@Unsplash.com A friend recently fell prey to a scam and ended up transferring a huge amount of money. When it happens to others or you look at it in retrospect, it may seem avoidable. But it may be harder to detect while it's happening. The only protection we have is raising awareness and having as many safety checks in place as we can. I'm writing this post to share whatever I think can help. Please share in comments if you have more ideas. 1. All these scams tend to exploit the human emotions of fear and greed.  => Learn to recognize these emotions coming up and don't do any financial transaction under the grip of these emotions. Have an agreement with yourself that before doing any financial transaction under fear or greed, you will consult XYZ (any trusted adviser and well-wisher). In most cases they will be able to see through it and bring in sanity. If nothing, it will buy you time and in that additional time you may end up seeing things ...

    Image source: GenAI tool In the Chapter 4 of Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna shares a powerful perspective on the art of responding . He says: The way people approach me is how I respond to them. In all ways people follow my path. ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते तांस्तथैव भजाम्यहम् | मम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्या: पार्थ सर्वश: || 4.11 Typically the verse is translated as: how people approach me is how I reciprocate to them. It seems what is being alluded to here is the dynamic of action and reaction. You do this to me and I will do the same to you. But that's not the message Krishna wants to give. Mahatma Gandhi said that - " An eye for an eye will make the world blind. " What Krishna is teaching instead is the art of response. And the best way to understand the verse is through the analogy of cricket. Let's say Krishna is batting and Arjuna is bowling. If Krishna says - "How you bowl to me is how I will bat." does he mean reciprocation? In other words does a master b...