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💰 For the dedicated grifters of the world, the cons are getting longer but finding the marks is getting a lot easier.

What's more, people don’t seem to be getting much better at spotting would-be Walter Mittys coming

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🔴 While criminals have used deception and disguise for centuries, the grifters who currently dominate our TV schedules represent a curiously modern phenomenon.

To scam effectively requires patience, preparation, luck and no small amount of confidence

💻 But since the web has blurred societal boundaries and opened doors to anybody with a broadband connection, today’s con artists have it easy.

The method for initial communications and the personal details of potential victims are right there, at the touch of a button

📱 Simon Leviev, the "Tinder Swindler", employed dating app technology to find his targets.

Meanwhile, Anna Sorokin’s lawyer argued that some of the services given to her were in exchange for publicity on Instagram
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Sorokin used social media, but also did her homework – forging documents, buying designer clothes, then acting the part among the easiest marks of all: the one per cent.

💸 Scamming the rich has never been easier

💷 "There’ll be another grifter along soon, ready to prey on the one per cent using any means necessary.

"They’re probably at it as we speak"

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