Organized Crime: How Your Parents Will Be Cheated Chris Burgess 3 min read · Just now Photo by Jason Dent on Unsplash Everyone has heard about the stories about how the elderly get hooked on many various types of scams. We have all heard of the majority of scams from mailorder sweepstakes to Prices that are captured in Africa and will share their wealth if you just wire $X amount of money to them to pay their ransom. Most of these are so outrageous we find ourselves laughing about them because they are so outlandish. We’ve all heard the classic line about how scammers will call up Grandma and they will say that they need some money and that they are in trouble so the grandmother urgently sends money to some anonymous account or wires the money through Western Union etc. So, we hope that we can educate the elderly so that they don’t so easily fall for these tricks. What if I told you though that you’re at risk for falling for one of these tricks right now and tha...
Dark Psychology There are many different psychological mechanisms that are present in society on a daily basis. These mechanism utilize a person's fears and their ability to interpret messages that their aggressor wishes for them to have. Everywhere from the office to the club, to your very own home, you are subjected to various forms of manipulation from people. Manipulation has a bad rap. People believe that manipulation is a bad thing because of how it makes them feel when they find out that they have been manipulated. People get upset because it makes them feel like a lesser person, like they have been victimized in some way, and often like they are not intelligent. Manipulation can be used for good purposes however. In the case of a newborn baby the very first thing it learns how to do in order to survive is to cry. By crying they trigger their mother to come an...