| hchickpea@hotmail.com: Jun 08 09:24AM -0500 >Number 7 is pretty chilling - I might not have thought of it! After all, it's not too surprising when a product endorsed by a celeb doesn't do as well as the creator THOUGHT it would - but this is different. I don't think I heard of the Eiffel Tower scam, either. (That was in 1925.) >Btw, the article doesn't mention pigeon drop scams, but I read about that in a YA novel from 2002 - "See You Down the Road." I read about it again in "Tall Tales, Legends and Hoaxes" by Nat Segaloff, which I'm pretty sure is another title for an earlier book of his from 2001, since both books include the "laying the note" con from the 1973 Ryan O'Neal movie "Paper Moon." >Lenona. Understand that many of the techniques are used by people who aren't con artists. #s 3 and 4 are old Dale Carnegie techniques. Slide #1 is a type of con - a click-bait to get you to click on another set of slides that has nothing to do with the subject. That in itself is an NLP technique called distraction. People are more likely to follow instruction while in the trancelike state of being mildly distracted. Politicians are masters at deception. One of the ways you can immunize yourself to much of that is to read a basic book on Neuro-Linguistic Programming, such as Tranceformations. Con artists develop a sense of who can or cannot be conned. Look at their eyes and you'll see their pupils narrow if they think you can't be conned. It can be fun to watch. Here is your link deslided into a single page: http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Flifestyle%2Fsmart-living%2F12-tricks-con-artists-use-to-win-your-trust%2Fss-AAjnU59%3Fli%3D3DBBnb7Kz%26ocid%3D3Dmailsignout%23image%3D1 |
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