Take the case of David, a financial professional from New York who's doing a good deed and had no idea he was opening himself up to swindlers.

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"We're doing a good deed for our customers, " he says.

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Twitter has in many ways done Guy Adams a huge favor, but it is is the kind of good deed it should try to avoid doing in future.

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