From Kevin Poulsen’s “Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the Crosshairs of the FBI” (Wired: 29 February 2008):
At 4 in the morning of May 1, 2005, deputies from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office converged on the suburban Colorado Springs home of Richard Gasper, a TSA screener at the local Colorado Springs Municipal Airport. [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul J. Zak’s “How to Run a Con” (Psychology Today: 13 November 2008):
When I was in high school, I took a job at an ARCO gas station on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, California. At the time, I drove a 1967 Mustang hotrod and thought I might pick up some tips and cheap parts [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Robert Salisbury
From “Man scammed by Craigslist ad” (The Seattle Times: 24 March 2008):
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, said Jackson County sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan.
But Robert Salisbury had no [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul’s “The easiest way to fool smart people“:
There’s a saying among con-men that smart people are easier targets, because they don’t think they can be conned.
I’m not sure if that’s true, but there’s one scam that’s almost guaranteed to make smart people switch off their brains and reach for their wallets. It’s a trick [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Adam Goodheart’s “The Last Island of the Savages” (The American Scholar, Autumn 2000, 69(4):13-44):
Even so, every few years there is a report of one “lost tribe” or another - usually in the Amazon rain forest or the highlands of New Guinea - staggering naked from the jungle into the dazzling glare of modernity. Such [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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