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Posted By: davidcycleback

Most forgers pick an audience. Most forgeries aren't intended to fool Rob Lifson and most forgers don't try and sell to Rob Lifson. The forgeries are intended to fool people unfamiliar with the cards, including people who may not actively collect. The maker of those AAA slabbed picture cut outs probably knows that someone who owns a Standard Catalog and reads this board knows they're not cards, but that's not his targeted audience.

Personally, I don't know why a forger would chose Rob Lifson and Bill Mastro and Lew Lipset as the intended buyers. It's like having to give a critiqued math lecture and picking the M.I.T. math department as the audience. In particular if you are worried about the audience discovering you aren't good at math, a better audience might be a first grade class or the dementia ward. Even if you think your are great at math and practice on your abacus every day, the M.I.T. department will probably still find a plethora of errors in your lecture.

One thing a successful scammer knows is that a collector with little to no knowledge about the material has money like everyone else, sometimes more money than the expert. If the scammer aspires to either, it's not to scam the person with the most knowledge but to scam the person with the most money. If the person with the most money has the least knowledge, that much easier.