Duck Leeks are Poisonous: Professor Kamo's Lecture on Human Economics - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - The Anchoring Effect

[MangaDex]

 

[JacobWhorne]

More peak

 

[EchoGirl]

'Value of your name' wonder how you'd research that unless ur an influencer

or if someone turns in a half assed paper and still gets graded 'properly' lol

'homeless research' aside wonder how rich he is. who knows maybe he even has a rich family/lineage (if not an ex con artist who has a change of heart/just prefers conning other scammers)

surprised no comedy tag, love how willing he is to casually crossdress, wanna see a live action actor do this lol

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

I wonder if these scams have actually happened in Japan, or if they're mostly fictional (by stitching together real crimes, for example).
Like, I can imagine dudes giving out loans to desperate women, and I can imagine dudes paying desperate women for sex... but I can't really imagine women accepting a loan AND also giving sex to the dude.

Likewise, this scam seems so elaborate for what scammers usually try to do.
I can imagine a group of individuals pretending to be a charity to get survey information that they can use to steal identities, but I can't imagine such a group existing to sell that information to information brokers, and government officials to use said info to cheat the system.

I suppose that's the writing of this series - taking dull normal scams, and adding a few flares to them to make it a more interesting read.

 

[Dverin_Oshiban_Duren]

I wonder if these scams have actually happened in Japan, or if they're mostly fictional (by stitching together real crimes, for example).
Like, I can imagine dudes giving out loans to desperate women, and I can imagine dudes paying desperate women for sex... but I can't really imagine women accepting a loan AND also giving sex to the dude.

Likewise, this scam seems so elaborate for what scammers usually try to do.
I can imagine a group of individuals pretending to be a charity to get survey information that they can use to steal identities, but I can't imagine such a group existing to sell that information to information brokers, and government officials to use said info to cheat the system.

I suppose that's the writing of this series - taking dull normal scams, and adding a few flares to them to make it a more interesting read.

I've only read a few chapters but yeah these scams so far are based on real events that did happen and they're not too far off. The Hitotoki thing is real and so is the subsidy stealing.
Only unrealistic part (which adds the flair) is a homeless-trillionaire-genius-economist-weirdo and gang doing their field work, investigations and other stuff and even that is not impossible.
I'd say that guy existing and being able to live like that is the most fictional aspect but hey, maybe he paid off a lot of people.

Also scammers rely on people who are vulnerable in some way and they do get more careless as it gets easier.
If a successful scam means more money and less likely to get caught then the more successful scams are the more elaborate ones though small simple scams on a large scale can also have a big impact.

Edit: also the end of the volume gives more details on these.