How con artists win over trust: ‘You get to create a reality for other people to live in’



With trust in institutions eroding — and the internet providing new opportunities to scam — grifters are showing up everywhere, Chuck Todd says on Meet the Press Reports.

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30 comments

  1. Your stockbroker is a con artist. Your whole economy is a shake down. What does your government do for you? What is your government do for you well? Stop paying taxes.

  2. Sounds like a headline for religion 'you get to create a reality…"

  3. Talk is cheap. Always look for empirical evidence. Always.

  4. If it is their idea then it is a bad idea for you

  5. This is what Republicans do to their voters because they are con artists.

  6. They can’t blame these big crooks on Nigerian Princes huh???

  7. Yeah … and we're ALL stupid enough to believe here !!

  8. Her story is not over .. wait for the surprise.

  9. I honestly dont blame Elizabeth Theranos. I blame the media and feminist culture that cosigned her and told us all she’s the next Steve Jobs

  10. The Manson Lamps on that sociopath Ther-anooooo!s are a dead giveaway.

  11. I know a guy who even scammed his way into the White House…

  12. 🫥🫥🫥🫥
    🙄🙄🙄🙄

  13. Rich people are just like us, they can get scammed too.

    My problem with that comment is the rich people will have a buffer to fall back on, when the normal people don't. So, we're talking game over for a normal person, and the worst the rich person suffers is some egg on their face.

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  15. ‘You get to create a reality for other people to live in’. …Yeah, now you're getting it. Maybe soon enough you'll do some of that "top notch", two decade late reporting about how Fox News and Facebook have literally created an entirely different reality for their viewers and users. They cause their users and viewers to live in a world of constant fear, uncertainty, and doubt. FUD, as propagandists call it.

    MAYBE, when someone has the balls to follow the money to the source, we can get a discussion about how social media creates false realities where consumers and users are constantly comparing themselves to people and "influencers" that are NOT reality. Their glamorous lives shown on the camera aren't real. It's already been reported that it effects teenages. No. Social media affects everyone who uses social media because they compare and contrast themselves, they follow trends in fashion, music, food, items, etc.

    That's just the consumer anxiety and inferiority complexes created by the psychological manipulation allowed by US marketing laws. That's aside from the constant state of FUD that the news media constantly feeds people. When you combine the two together, you have chaos. You have people trying to fit into a reality that doesn't exist; that are being threatened in a reality that doesn't exist; is fighting a holy war and a political battle for their country in a reality that doesn't' exist. And where do they turn? To the person who says "I alone can fix it." An authoritarian. I hope you finally understand that corporations and billionaires do this to the US population on purpose.

    The problem with what is happening in the United States with this specific issue that literally caused the January 6th Insurrection and literal attempt at overthrowing the US government, does not lie in the corporations. It lies in the cowardice of Congress who have refused to take action against these corporations and protect consumers simply because they donate so much money to politics.

    ‘You get to create a reality for other people to live in’…What do you think the world of marketing, sales, and "influencing" in the United States is? The United States is the world capital of Snake Oil. From multilevel marketing schemes to healing crystals to Ivermectin…and even religion. The United States is the sociopathic grifter CEO's paradise.

  16. Your home. Your car. Your wages. Price of living. All a con artist scheme.

  17. Does it take a rocket scientist?

  18. In a nation governed by rule of law its ok to lie in political speech and a sales pitch, bc when it all boils down money matters most to its system of revenue

  19. CHUMP20TOLIFE 🇺🇲🇺🇲

    THE KING OF CON 🤡

  20. Maria would be a lot more compelling guest if she would drop the vocal fry.

  21. The vocal fry must be stopped ! 😱

  22. Too funny to get an ad in the middle of this piece hyping what Elon Musk is doing!!!

  23. Very simple these people are similar to used car salesmen. They have the verbal skills to make a lemon sound as if it is a GOLDEN CHARIOT. They know the majority of people will do absolutely no research at all. The get rich quick scheme will do just that make someone else rich but NOT YOU.

  24. Frank Abegnale’s real con is his story that he milks for speaking engagements. None of it is true.

  25. Holmes disgusts me more than Sorokin. The latter is just a con but the former is a c..un..t.

  26. Elizabeth Holmes was aided in her con by fake News New York Times articles and features

  27. Fabricated Intelligence in support of a Presidents desire to illegally invade a country. The US invasion of Iraq declared illegal on Sept 15, 2004 by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

  28. Lying, stealing and corruption by rich and poor alike? It's a sign of the times for the US.