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    SCAM Victims and "Believer's Mentality"

    https://www.drphil.com/shows/two-sis...e-was-scammed/

    Dr. Phil was able to stretch a rational-sounding woman's belief that she had been married to Tyler Perry for two years into two hours of television last week. The woman had never met the Nigerian scammer and had never even been able to have a Skype or other video chat with him. She even believed the scammer's claim that she had donated her eggs for the purpose of biologically mothering Tyler Perry's son, although she did not recall undergoing any procedure for having her eggs removed. She had sent over $100,000 to "Tyler Perry" via Western Union and Moneygram, including such needs as $500 for "repairs to his private jet" and various charities he requested she donate to.

    As much as I hate to use Dr. Phil as an authority on anything, I liked his summation of Confirmation Bias. Whether it's a desperately lonely woman who believes James Kirk Captain of the U.S.S. Zumwalt loves her passionately, or the hordes of "investors" who are clamoring to purchase worthless Tech-Coin from the USI-Tech scammers, we see this every day in every SCAM discussed here on RealScam:

    "Perception is reality. If you believe something, it becomes your reality. There is something called confirmation bias and that is: once you believe something, then you start to filter out everything that is contrary to your belief and you cherry-pick only those things that confirm what you already believe.

    When people start to show you information contrary to it and force you to look at it, you dig in even deeper. Others would think that ok, they're going to force you to look at it and change your opinion. You dig in even deeper because of something called cognitive dissonance.

    It's hard for you to admit that you were wrong. It's a process. It can't happen because the more evidence that we would show you the deeper she would become entrenched, but that will seep in across time"


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    Re: SCAM Victims and "Believer's Mentality"

    Frank Calabro Jr 20.jpg

    ^ Another mind-bending example of the blistering ignorance that we tend to associate with the type of person that commonly gets sucked in to typical Ponzi schemes.

    The above captured from Frank Calabro's Facebook page as painstakingly authored by Donna Miranda of Columbus, Mississippi.

    We really do try to help these folks ...

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    Re: SCAM Victims and "Believer's Mentality"

    Quote Originally Posted by shipdit View Post

    Another mind-bending example of the blistering ignorance that we tend to associate with the type of person that commonly gets sucked in to typical Ponzi schemes.
    I don't know how many places sell lawnmowers in the backwater town where I squat, but let's reckon five. When I buy a mower the guy at the counter doesn't try to recruit me into the lawnmower business. I don't keep the mower and get my all money back plus 10% after I mow grass for sixty days. Yeah I get her point if I try to use it to trim the hedges, but that's a small concession.

    Quote Originally Posted by shipdit View Post
    We really do try to help these folks ...
    Everything these people touches turns to ****, always. If they can't figure that out after years of failed MLMs and investment opportunities, the preemptive stuff we do is wayyyyyy beyond their scope of comprehension.
    "It's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time." Bernie Madoff
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scam-...98399986981403

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