Just for reference: open-ended but answerable question?

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Just wondering since while we already have this information it's somewhat scattered among near-duplicates: If someone asked "What are good ways to recognize that someone is trying to scam me", would that inherently be a bad question because it doesn't have a relatively small set of correct solutions (and might draw more opinion than useful response), or within our scope?

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I think it is a great idea. It is occasionally suggested that we turn one of the “Is this a scam?” question into a one-size-fits-all canonical question, but that doesn’t really work because the details of every scam are a little different. This suggested question, however, would hopefully generate a good answer that would list the different signs that we see that identify clear scams. I think it could work well.