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CGO said
And then there's the guy that made numerous transfers against his bank's advice to some scheme. eventually adding up to $450k.

The reason we don't hear much about Darwin awards is that there are too many deserving recipients ...  

In the real world the winners of the Darwin award usually die in a car crash, drown, overdose on drugs/alcohol and/or get killed by a mad animal/human.

In the financial world the victim usually lose all their money the first time so they don't have the misfortune of losing their money again.

There are very few repeat winners of the Darwin Award. They usually die and/or lose all their money the first time.