{"id":128,"date":"2009-03-30T10:18:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:18:48","slug":"the-eigenspace-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"The eigenspace of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting discussion of the basic types of fraud at Making Light: <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/001509.html\">here<\/a>, and a followon <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/011144.html#011144\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Simple misrepresentation.<br \/>\n2. Using high-pressure tactics to confuse or intimidate the victim.<br \/>\n3. Shell games, sleights of hand, and switch-and-retraction cons: the pigeon drop, the Jamaican switch, Three-Card Monte, etc.<br \/>\n4. The Spanish Prisoner<br \/>\n5. Ponzi Schemes<br \/>\n6. Pyramid schemes<br \/>\n7. Selling information about, or access to, uncommon opportunities<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would add selling a dream.  The con man sells people on an appealing dream and convinces them to spend time and money on it.  The details determine whether this is a con, a religion, a self-deception, or an honest endeavor.  For honest endeavor, consider someone who convinces a town to set up a community garden.  For con, think of someone who convinces people to pool money to buy a farm and start a co-op and ends up owning the farm.  For religion, think the televangelists that live in mansions built with their followers dough.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting discussion of the basic types of fraud at Making Light: here, and a followon here. 1. Simple misrepresentation. 2. Using high-pressure tactics to confuse or intimidate the victim. 3. Shell games, sleights of hand, and switch-and-retraction cons: the pigeon drop, the Jamaican switch, Three-Card Monte, etc. 4. The Spanish Prisoner 5. Ponzi Schemes 6. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}