an ongoing concern for the creation and protection of the rights of crime victims by enacting legislation aimed at bolstering victims’ rights and roles in the criminal justice process. The Sentencing Guidelines’ recognition of victims’ circumstances and characteristics during the sentencing process is consistent with such congressional concerns. The vulnerable victim enhancement recognizes that certain individual victims or types of victims are less able to protect themselves from criminal machinations. Because criminals are more likely to succeed in achieving their criminal purposes and less likely to be apprehended when committing crimes against particularly vulnerable victims, “a higher than average punishment is necessary to deter the crimes against them.” United Sta h Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Peters, 962 F.2d 1410, 1418
holding victims with poor credit histories were particularly susceptible to schemes involving offers of preapproved credit cards holding a car salesman who was obligated to go on a drive with assailants was particularly susceptible to criminal conduct holding persons known to have fallen for telemarketing scams previously were particularly susceptible to criminal conduct holding a sleeping victim of sexual abuse was particularly susceptible to criminal conduct holding that in a fifth amendment challenge pjrovided that conduct is of a sort widely known among the lay public to be criminal  a person is not entitled to clear notice that the conduct violates a particular criminal statute it is enough that he knows that what he is about to do is probably or certainly criminal