Monday, September 30, 2013

Carl Sagan on fraud II

The quote by the late Dr. Carl Sagan points to a type of behavior I have noticed after working for several years in the field of white-collar criminal defense and fraud investigation: after a person has been the victim of an ongoing swindle for a length of time, eventually the person refuses to believe that he is a victim.

     I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist and the purpose of this job is not to analyze people.  However, a person does not have to be a mental health professional to notice and appreciate a certain character trend. 

   The fraudsters knows and appreciates that his victim falls into certain predictable patterns of behavior.  It is the job of the fraudster to take advantage of these patterns for his own advantage and gain.  Fraudsters further know that if they can get the victim in deep enough to his scheme, they can continue the scheme.


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