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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/111972587545924810">Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 10:41:38 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" title="inthehands@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/53259-48-20231130154634.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Cantrell" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Cantrell</a></section><article><p>Fascinating account of what a successful con looks like:<br><a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html</a></p><p>…and a hell of a paragraph toward the end:</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2746295#notice-5446199">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-22T10:41:38+09:00" title="Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 10:41:38 JST">about 9 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111972587545924810" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111972587545924810">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: pyxis.nymag.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html">How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000</a></h5><div> from <span>@charlottecowles</span></div></header><div>I’m still trying to understand why I fell for it.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2289357">It was my brother, the lawyer, who pointed out that what I had experienced sounded a lot like a coerced confession. “I read enough transcripts of bad interrogations in law school to understand that anyone can be convinced that they have a very narrow set of terrible options,” he said. When I posed this theory to Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who studies coerced confessions, he agreed. “If someone is trying to get you to be compliant, they do it incrementally, in a series of small steps that take you farther and farther from what you know to be true,” he said. “It’s not about breaking the will. They were altering the sense of reality.” And when you haven’t done anything wrong, the risk of cooperating feels minimal, he added. An innocent person thinks everything will get sorted out. It also mattered that I was kept on the phone for so long. People start to break down cognitively after a few hours of interrogation. “At that point, they’re not thinking straight. They feel the need to put an end to the situation at all costs,” Kassin said.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/972/587/503/718/128/original/cf345d20c53e1c72.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/972/587/503/718/128/original/cf345d20c53e1c72.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 10:41:38 JST Paul Cantrell
Fascinating account of what a successful con looks like:
https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
…and a hell of a paragraph toward the end:
In conversationabout 9 months ago from hachyderm.iopermalink
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2. It was my brother, the lawyer, who pointed out that what I had experienced sounded a lot like a coerced confession. “I read enough transcripts of bad interrogations in law school to understand that anyone can be convinced that they have a very narrow set of terrible options,” he said. When I posed this theory to Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who studies coerced confessions, he agreed. “If someone is trying to get you to be compliant, they do it incrementally, in a series of small steps that take you farther and farther from what you know to be true,” he said. “It’s not about breaking the will. They were altering the sense of reality.” And when you haven’t done anything wrong, the risk of cooperating feels minimal, he added. An innocent person thinks everything will get sorted out. It also mattered that I was kept on the phone for so long. People start to break down cognitively after a few hours of interrogation. “At that point, they’re not thinking straight. They feel the need to put an end to the situation at all costs,” Kassin said.
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