Who can you trust?
Whom can you put your trust on? First question to be answered, Can you trust yourself? In reality it is simple, as you know yourself, you will know others. This has then to be seasoned with a lot of spices that comes with life. Either you meet trustworthy persons or fraudsters. You simply adopt.
A fraudster will never trust anybody but himself. The fraudster will jubilate when he meets a trustworthy person. He sees the flow of funds comming to him as an act of higher forces.
Trustworthy persons meeting the fraudster will eventually adapt to signs of a fraudster. The sign will eventually be carried by everybody else. Thus requiring all kinds of documents and certificates to locate another trustworthy person or to nail the fraudster down to real action.
The best way to find out if you have a real trustworthy person on the other side is to negotiate about the terms stated in the procedure. Then you have on the otherhand to be aware that there are some very reasonable issues that can not be discussed. A buyer or a seller of gold bullion requiring Swiss procedures you will never be able to move away from the procedures.
There will always be a discussion then on who is to show what document first.
The above is actually now an interesting article in the latest issue of Harvard Business Revue http://hbr.org/2014/03/who-can-you-trust/ar/1
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