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The Trust Decay Curve
Why fraud almost never comes from strangers.
How it works
- 1Fraud rarely comes from strangers; it comes from five-year relationships where verification quietly stopped.
- 2Compliance early in a relationship builds the comfort that gets exploited later.
- 3The fix is structural verification that never fatigues, not more vigilance from tired humans.
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