Consider the names of these famous people:
Comte de Saint-Germain
Baron Münchhausen
Alessandro di Cagliostro
Amy Bock
Gregor MacGregor
Mary Carleton
Charles Ponzi
Victor Lustig
Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava (Natwarlal)
Anna Sorokin
Sylvia Browne
George C. Parker
Alfredo Bowman (Dr Sebi)
Jim Jones
Barry Minkow
Jim & Tammy Bakker
Frank Abagnale
Marc Stuart Dreier
Steven Kunes
Steven Jay Russell
William Thompson
Donald Trump
Bernard Madoff
Elizabeth Holmes
Kevin Trudeau
Who are these people?
They are all people who have cheated or “conned” others, been found out, publicly faced legal/financial retribution, and became infamous for their suspect dealings with others – but most of all, these are con artists who continued to con others (or attempt to) even after being found out – there are easy to find, public transparent records of all their suspect achievements.
What exactly is a con artist? A swindler who exploits the confidence of the victim – exploited so much that victims encourage the con to play out – because they’re convinced the con is in their best interests – convinced beyond the point of any rational deduction – the victim eventually becomes a (oblivious) participant in the con.
Oddly, we have always been fascinated with con artists – many of us have been or could be drawn into a con – there is very little difference between us, and the countless numbers of well minded, educated, savvy, worldly people drawn into the cons of these people.
There is one commonality among the victims – they all wanted the con to work so badly, that they refused to recognize any possible evidence of the con – evidence obvious to others who were not consumed by the con.
Something to think about for sure….
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