South Africa: How I Narrowly Avoided Being Conned

21 February 2014

As an investigative journalist I've come face-to-face with grifters. I've interviewed fraudsters and studied sociopathy extensively. I'm fascinated by psychopaths and the peculiarities of the brain that make them different to the rest of us. Trying to understand the mental workings of good and evil is a hobby of mine.

This story is about how, given my profession and particular interests, I should have known better. It is about how I was lured into a scam artist's play, and got very close to giving that conman my hard-earned cash.

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