you cheat or get cheated

To acquire anything (be it property, relationship or anything else) you have only two options. Either you cheat or be prepared to get cheated by others. The initial part is okay as we always make surveillance for our victims . The later part i.e. be prepared to get cheated ....... Suppose you are pushed to the wall you've no options but to accept what is offered to you. Here, you are prepared to get cheated by others.

Cheating others is not a cakewalk . As one has to collect lots of information about the "possible" victims. One has to rely on secondary data provided by our appointed "agents". Nobody can vouch the credibility of the agents . With the collected data, if we approach the victim(s), there is every possibility that we become victims of our own conspiracy.

That's why I always maintain that the art of cheating should be present in our DNA otherwise, don't try.