Scammed Cons and Scams Revealed By Stephen Cloete trickery magic
The book is a soft cover book and in a like new condition it has 224 pages
*****ABOUT THE BOOK******
The author, Stepheon Cloete, is a professional entertainer and speaker, who uses magic (illusion, sleight of hand, escapology and mentalism) as part of his entertaining arsenal. He has been a cruise director for a large cruise ship company for more than fifteen years. He is an expert in the field of tricking people and is ideally placed to expose the various scams that do the round. He does this in MapStudios new book, Scammed!
He exposes the greed and gullibility and other psychological elements which underlie various scams, hoaxes and cons. The history of these things are fascinating and once or twice, I ever the sceptic found myself having been hoodwinked, even if only by having believed something that now appears not to have been true. The first part of the book makes up the bulk of the text as well as being meaty in terms of subject matter, and I found it most entertaining, particularly the section on faith healers.
Part Two deals with some simple Magic Tricks for the readers. This is less interesting to me than the first section, but I would imagine that young wannabee magicians will love this section. It may well fill the better part of a rainy weekend with entertainment for young people especially if there is load-shedding around. Keep it to hand for this sort of emergency. It also makes a perfect unisex Christmas present for that enquiring mind.
We have all been scammed at one time or another, with or without realising it. People have been scamming others for thousands of years, and scams work because of two uniquely human traits greed and gullibility. MapStudios new book, Scammed, looks at uncovering the techniques of scams, hoaxes and cons.
Part one looks at famous scams and the psychology of how and why scams work, as well as ways of preventing being scammed and the various types of scams used.
Part two ready to have some fun has easy-to-do magic tricks, giving readers challenges, puzzles, predictions and amazing feats and other fun stuff to try out with family and friends. You dont have to understand an illusion to enjoy it, and what is magic to some is just science to others.
Highlights:
Famous scams, the psychology of how and why scams work
Ways to prevent being scammed
Internet, email and financial scams
Pseudo-science technology
Mind over matter : The World of the psychic
I see dead people : The World of the clairvoyant
Heal the world (for a price) The world of faith healing
The latest and greatest : Y2K
The latest and greatest: Balance bangles hand in the balance
Scams using Facebook as a platform
Scams using cell phones as a platform
Detail on ponzi schemes
Updates on 419 and similar scams
More detail on scam protection
Examples of modern scams
Psychic fraud
The Malaysian plane, MH 370
Celebrity psychics
Advertising scams, telemarketing scams
Easy-to-do magic tricks
Relationship between magic and scams
