Belle Taylor: Think you're too smart to fall for a scam?

If, like me, you spend way too much of your life online, you would have likely stumbled across a story doing the rounds in the past week or so from US website The Cut. It's written by financial advice columnist Charlotte Cowles and the headline is: "The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger. I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam." To be clear, in terms of financial advice this would be classified as a "what not to do". In the article Cowles details how, over…