Since con artists look for ways to manipulate strengths and weaknesses. They will either paint a picture of wealth and ease, or increase your darkest fears, or a combination of both

A Con Artist will:

  • play on your sympathies,
  • instill in you a sense of security in dealing with him or her,
  • separate you from your friends and family by placing extreme secrecy on all facets of the deal
  • convince you to depend only on the scammer and to believe only in the scammer; convince you that your friends and family, banks and law enforcement, are all lying and that only the scammer is telling the truth.
  • and distract you from what is really going on using lies laced with enough truth to make the patter believable. What we call "sleight of mind."


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