THE CONFIDENCE GAME Why We Fall for It . . .
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Fortunately, Congressman Matt Gaetz did not completely fall for it.
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For some reason, I fall for it every single time.
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I told myself I wasn't going to fall for it.
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" Rosen added, "If we fall for it, shame on us.
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I can only hope we don't fall for it — again.
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I can only hope that people don't fall for it.
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"Don't fall for it!" says New York financial planner David Mendels.
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This is elementary retail theory, and we all fall for it constantly.
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Otherwise, the statement is bullshit — and no one should fall for it.
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And while some fall for it, others see straight through the hilarious stunt.
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That phishing-style scam still happens, but fewer people fall for it now.
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"Don't fall for it," Rubio says in ad, looking directly into the camera.
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Her point here -- made partially in a song -- is don't fall for it.
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The question for Democratic primary voters is whether they will fall for it.
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Jon Lovitz and Jessica Lowndes are goofing on us, do not fall for it.
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And if you know it's a mental trick, why would you fall for it?
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But you watch how many fans will fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
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Probs. Don't fall for it, Arya — the lone wolf dies but the pack survives!
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" Turning to face the camera, she asked President Trump to "not fall for it.
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So why do so many people — even some financial markets professionals — fall for it?
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This is nobody's fault but the demagogues' and the people who fall for it.
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So why did so many people fall for it, and why haven't the denials penetrated?
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If there's anything about this car that'll make you fall for it, it's the interior.
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It is an old story, and I don't think American voters will fall for it.
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So if John Podesta would fall for it, so would millions of other, less sophisticated users.
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The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time.
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But fake news wouldn't be a problem if people didn't fall for it and share it.
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This is an insulting Republican ploy and Garland should be smarter than to fall for it.
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They were all out there and I was like 'I'm not going to fall for it'.
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"I don't think Minnesotans are going to fall for it," he said of Trump and Stauber.
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Because the Rickroll is universal: anyone can serve it up, and anyone can fall for it.
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If that's considered a trick, readers of Semple's novel will be overjoyed to fall for it.
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You presented a fraudulent accusation and tried to get The Washington Post to fall for it.
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"If people are prepared, educated on digital," Ms. Boldrini said, "maybe they don't fall for it."
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Technological determinism is perhaps the great intellectual temptation of our decade—try not to fall for it.
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This is a trap that most repeat entrepreneurs get caught in, and I still fall for it.
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SANSA TOLD YOU NOT TO FALL FOR IT. The arrows miss Rickon until the last possible second.
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"He plays you, the press, like a fiddle, and you fall for it every time," she said.
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Charles Delavan, the IT Helpdesk Manager for the Clinton campaign, appeared to fall for it too, however.
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Ideally you would do the latter, or at least learn a valuable lesson if you fall for it.
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Usher, Megan Rapinoe, and Julia Roberts were also among a bunch of famous names to fall for it.
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If this were the case, however, it would not make sense for the commission to fall for it.
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The government can put out the bait, but it&aposs up to the defendants to fall for it.
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But if you've been solving long enough, you'll recognize this "stick" trick, and you will not fall for it.
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Never fall for it when someone offers you something for the return of someone that you've never heard of.
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Almost 11 percent of people who receive a phishing email fall for it, according to internet security company Cofense.
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"It's manipulative and cruel to do that, because there are people who could fall for it," Jennifer Bolshaw said.
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And I fall for it every time, like a child whose grandfather keeps magically finding quarters behind his ear.
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The mutt tries to trick me into taking her out while he's gone, but I don't fall for it this time.
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That does not mean we should fall for it or doubt that McConnell knows what a true power grab looks like.
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Try to stay present and if someone tells you something that sounds too good to be true, don't fall for it.
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It's much cheaper and much easier to anonymously spread bullshit across social media and wait for him to fall for it.
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While the majority of drivers are apparently cautious enough not to fall for it, some have had their wages wiped out completely.
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Orchestrated regicide (he was a shit king, but still a kid) and let Sansa take the fall for it (also a child).
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They all charge $5,210, $210,285, $25,2000 to the startups, and the startups are so desperate for attention that they fall for it.
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Carlson's new book "Don't Fall For It" aims to teach investors timeless business and financial lessons through the use of historical anecdotes.
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If you fall for it, you're catering to the movement's ostensible perception of left-leaning citizens (or even moderate citizens) as being histrionic.
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Sometimes an April Fools joke makes you sad — not because you fall for it, but because you really wanted it to be true.
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What's mostly stunning about all this is the predictability of the choreography — and the way we seem to fall for it every time.
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Dumb, hysterical Ally will never get anyone to believe the truth about the shooting (if she doesn't take the fall for it herself).
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You can&apost say to the public would and the next day wouldn&apost and expect everybody&aposs going to fall for it.
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If you do fall for it, and enter the requested info ... the bad guys can get your passwords and control of your account.
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When they see a human doing something silly in terms of how to open a box, unlike humans, they don't fall for it.
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Don't expect any changes—as long as we readers continue to fall for it, anti-cop "violence" is virtually guaranteed to go viral.
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"You used to have to make an ad and air it on TV to get the media to fall for it," said Mr. Goldstein.
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In a December episode of her show, she tried to trick Stefani into admitting she was engaged — but the singer didn't fall for it.
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"When U Were Mine" is a breakup song, but pop fate had me fall for it during the early days of a new relationship.
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Well, that's exactly what science writer Maria Konnikova looked into for her new book, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It...Every Time.
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"Even comedians who know the violent twist is coming, we still fall for it," said John Mulaney, who has known Jeselnik for 14 years.
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TurboTax may be spamming your inbox, as it is certainly doing to mine, but don't fall for it if you can file for free.
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Its editors argued that the term is merely a marketing ploy to mask the alt-right's racist intentions, and journalists shouldn't fall for it.
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She uses London slang so people fall for it, when in reality, she has a grand piano in her house and is from Kensington.
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"Siphoning funding from real disasters to pay for a crisis manufactured by the president is wholly unacceptable and the American people won't fall for it."
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He's convinced they were setting him up to be the butt of the joke, but he didn't fall for it ... like many before him have.
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He is well aware how easy it is for him to make new friends, as a pro athlete, but too wary to fall for it.
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It sounds plausible (plus most people aren't entirely sure what the FTC does), so you nod along, but don't fall for it; it's a ruse.
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Ann Coulter on Fox News calls crying immigrant children "child actors" and looks directly into the camera to warn Trump not to fall for it. pic.twitter.
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"This is absolute nonsense, and we shouldn't fall for it," said Rachel Cohen, spokeswoman for Senator Mark Warner, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Honestly, this game is free to play, it's really well designed, and the only real danger is that you'll fall for it just as I have.
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And while Google, Snopes, newspapers, and other online resources exist to help people in the U.S. debunk fake news, plenty of Americans still fall for it.
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But no matter how many times a fake image of a shark swimming on a flooded highway shows up, the internet continues to fall for it.
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It's a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country, and no one should fall for it.
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What makes it so believable, however, is the mention that Olson had been a collegiate wrestler, injecting just enough plausibility for everyone to fall for it.
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" Of a novel called "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," he said, "The easy marks from the pie-belt may fall for it, but no more for us.
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Why not just bathe in my own self-satisfaction as Guy Who Didn't Fall For It till my skin wrinkles and falls off, no harm no foul?
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YouTuber Josh Pieters invited an Ed Sheeran lookalike to the KSI vs Logan Paul boxing match over the weekend, to see if anyone would actually fall for it.
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The second season might be shaggy around the edges, but when it embraces that combination — and it very often does — it's hard not to fall for it anyway.
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Perhaps no one understands our collective obsession better than Maria Konnikova, a psychologist and the author of the book The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It ... Every Time.
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And while anyone even halfway paying attention likely wouldn't fall for it, the trick has already raked in thousands of dollars of ethereum and bitcoin in less than a week.
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When you see it from a top down angle, it makes absolutely no sense how this shit works, but down on the floor, those dude fall for it every time.
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Trump is using this to gin up votes among a base of support he is convinced is bigoted and racist enough to fall for it at least one more time.
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My current preoccupation with these deceptions may have something to do with the fact that I've been reading "The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It…Every Time," by Maria Konnikova.
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Mr. Trump may try to tell you that he cares about raising wages for those struggling to get by, but don't fall for it, not even for a New York minute.
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One way is by carefully training employees to recognize a scam, not fall for it, and most importantly report it, so the company can remove all such emails from their domains.
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Sure, it's agonizing to watch her twist the truth, but so many people fall for it that it's also grimly satisfying: We get to feel smarter than the people being played.
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The second is that after years of singing the game's praises, I saw dozens of friends and acquaintances give the game a shot and fall for it just like I had.
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Ann Coulter: ...And I would also say one other thing: these child actors weeping and crying on all the other networks 228/217 right now, do not fall for it Mr. President.
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Pieters, who has nearly 1 million subscribers, set up a fake restaurant because he wanted to find out whether Deliveroo, a food-delivery app based in the UK, would fall for it.
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We know that after accidentally damaging one of her campaign posters, she lost control and tore them all down, covering up her rampage and letting someone else take the fall for it.
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We know that after accidentally damaging one of her campaign posters, she lost control and tore them all down, covering up her rampage and letting someone else take the fall for it.
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He was the kind of guy who could look at something, copy it in horrendous technical form, but still manufacture the situations where his opponent would fall for it hook, line and sinker.
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Now we wait to see if all 53 Republican senators will fall for it, or if some will decide the stakes are simply too high to ignore what's right in front of them.
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One would have to hope that their opponent trained with an exceptionally out of touch coach who apparently didn't believe in kicks and even then he'd have to be on autopilot to fall for it.
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"That tells me that people really have got to be on their guard against this kind of fraud because, when people fall for it, they're likely to lose a whole lot of money," she said.
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"People actually do fall for this, and sometimes they fall for it twice," said Marie Vasek, an associate professor at the University of New Mexico who has studied bitcoin scams almost since the digital currency's inception.
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Maria Konnikova, a psychologist and the author of The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time, told Vox's Rebecca Jennings earlier this year that social media lowers the "barrier to entry" for con artists.
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Having microexpressions Maria Konnikova, author of " The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It ... Every Time," previously told Business Insider that microexpressions are slight, hard-to-catch expressions that last only a fraction of as second.
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But as psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova explains in her new book, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It, Every Time, you don't have to be particularly gullible or greedy to fall for one of these schemes.
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TRIPPI: From a campaign point of view: The way he uses Twitter to get the media to amplify his message is incredible, and they continue to fall for it — reading his tweets verbatim, repeatedly, no matter the attack.
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" On Sunday, author Ann Coulter appeared on Fox News show "The Next Revolution" and described the detained migrant children as "child actors weeping and crying" and urged U.S. President Donald Trump: "Do not fall for it, Mr. President.
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Basically, she always does the same thing, I think to myself sadly, reaches for the same trick to get the other person in her power, the same words, the same gestures; only I always forget, and I always fall for it.
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Try your best not to fall for it: There is no obligation — legal or otherwise — to disclose this information, so your first move should be to parry this question to see if your potential employer will throw out the first number.
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"I think it's often an issue that the Republican Party tries to kind of create a dilemma or a political pickle for Democrats, and many Democrats kind of fall for it," said Marisa Franco, cofounder of immigrant rights group Mijente.
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You might look at Mystery Brand and think that this business model will never work because no one is dumb enough to fall for it, but there are two things I've learned about loot boxes after years of writing about them: 1.
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Lenny doesn't fall for it, though he desperately wants to — the flashback to him kissing his mom on the cheek as she lies by a stream and then curling up next to her was possibly the saddest thing The Young Pope has done so far.
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It's impossible to know how many people—if any—have fallen for this, but given how popular Bitcoin has become and how tempting this might sound for people hoping to make a quick cryptobuck, we can't rule out that no one will fall for it.
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And he thinks Trump is swift enough not to get hoodwinked by Kim Jong Un: "I know he won't fall for it in the same way that past presidents have, that get strung along, strung along lifting sanctions, giving them money, and get nothing for it," he said.
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They're just trying to use these tools to try to get the rest of us to decide that free speech is a bad thing, and if we fall for it, we're going to lose something much bigger, and this is a concern that I and lots of other people have been raising.
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And to top it all off, that night I might see Louis C.K. The comic who had called me out for not laughing the night before was back on stage tonight, telling the same joke about how when a woman said hello to him, he wasn't going to "fall for it" in light of #MeToo.
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Read more: The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking In a lengthy blog post published on Tuesday, Krause warned of of how easy it is to mimic the boxes, and users are likely to fall for it since they've been trained for years to type their Apple ID password at seemingly random times.
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"The idea that it is a fact-checked story is designed to say to you that it is objective and analytically fair, and all it is a vehicle for them to do opinion journalism under the guise of fairness, which if you fall for it, gives it even more power," Mr. Limbaugh told his listeners.
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For the 1998 essay collection From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender in Video Games, Cal Jones, then the reviews editor for PC Gaming World, articulated an argument that would recur throughout Lara's history: that her impossible anatomy made her a sham of a feminist role model, and that women (and himself) knew better than to fall for it.
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"Any time people decide to start taking more risks and interest rates go down, people get this fear of missing out and the time is ripe to take advantage," Ben Carlson, director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management and author of the new book, "Don't Fall For It: A Short History of Financial Scams" told CNBC's Halftime Report on Friday.
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In "The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time," Maria Konnikova provides a modest compendium of outrageous deceptions, with cameos from Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., a serial impostor who performed 19 surgeries aboard a Canadian naval ship (he was not, needless to say, a doctor); Glafira Rosales, an art dealer who trafficked in fakes so impressive they duped the president of New York's oldest gallery; and Victor Lustig, a self-invented "count" who twice sold the Eiffel Tower to investors, claiming it was soon to be destroyed for parts.
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