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Pros
The part that resonated the most with me is how victims of cons often fall for a scam because of a shared predilection of all humans — our love of stories. Konnikova explains why humans are fooled by what seems to those on the outside as obvious scams... Read More
Mk uses both practical and theoretical scenarios to inform the reader of how/why a con-artist can get away with his scam. A good read backed by psychology experts & real-life stories of many convicted cons.
Maria konnikova, phd is a psychologist and gifted writer. She is also a prolific researcher.
Author gives a working outline of what happens when we are the unconscious targets of a swindler. She notes how conning people has gotten easier in the age of the internet as well as how hyper-fast, hyper-competitive environments seem ripe for cons. S... Read More
I was informed about copious amounts of biases, fallacies, psychological flaws and emotional blindness. This book is admittedly a darker part of that exploration.
Cons
Page opus could be expressed in a 20 page or less op ed piece. I seriously doubt the vips who wrote those glowing blurbs actually read this book.
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Quality
Great read and even prevented a con during a potential house purchase
Inhave always been fasicinated by conmen this book is amazing great author very smart every us citizen should read ir
Scams and con artists abound inundating us even in our email
The puppy’s teeth protruded its ears were sticking out and up and when it smiled at me i felt it was going to attack
Price
I dreamt i was offered for sale an adorable fluffy playful enchanting white little puppy
Well worth buying it even just for that much
And when the guy suggested that the price for the puppy included “cloning” rights i felt overwhelmed by the suggestion that clo... Read More
From the local bank account representing his emergency reserves he had sent 25k to a western union address another 25k in gift cards
Competitiveness
Also includes some of the more interesting historical scams such as ponzi madoff etc
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- This product had a total of 1,607 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 9 2024.
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How scammers try and manage to fool us
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The book is about what con artists do and why we fall for them
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It’s well done but the writing falls short of the best books of this nonfiction genre
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also it’s a little hard for us to learn from the book because without any emotional context all of the victims seem so easily duped that of course neither you nor i would fall for that when the author is arguing that many many of us would fall for the con artists’ tricks
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Penultimate paragraph on page 71 2nd sentence “the” is duplicated
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My only disappointment was that it was not updated to address the most successful con man of all the one who bluffed his way into the oval office
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But i understand that the author probably didn’t want to wade into that particular crocodile pond
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This is more like a text book type
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