One astonishingly successful way scammers steal people’s money is to tell a lie so huge that people think it must be true, because nobody would dare say such a thing if it wasn’t. This technique has succeeded many times in the past, and the stories are kind of like an opposite phenomenon: they can be very hard to believe, but are actually completely true! Here is why you need to check the facts, every time, and never assume there’s a lie that’s too big to be told.