This one goes out to all the wannabe Anna Delveys, Jordan Belforts, and Joanne the Scammers of the world (we're right there with you). What does it say about us that Netflix drops a new scammer series every week and yet we still can't get enough con-man/-woman/-person content? Probably that we like to see rich people suffer and feel smug that we would NEVER have fallen for that...although history and psychology suggest otherwise...
Required Reading
http://rhizomes.net/issue37/pdf/king-carroll.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkA4lwmQq4s
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahwatts/2019/03/21/the-psychology-behind-scamming/?sh=20a801c93447
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/her-only-crime-was-helping-her-kid/597979/
https://newrepublic.com/article/154404/myth-welfare-queen
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2010/04/02/racism-in-international-context-nigerian-scam-baiters/
Music Credit:
https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/in-the-now
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