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Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series \\u2013 where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology.

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In today\\u2019s episode, Chris and Abbie are discussing the psychology of Con Artists. What motivates them, why people fall for them, and how you can protect yourself. [Sept 4, 2023]

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00:00 - Intro

00:30 - Dr. Abbie Maro\\xf1o Intro

01:11 - Intro Links

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04:58 - The Topic of the Day: Con Artists

06:27 - Definition & Motivation

09:10 - The Empathy Difference

14:57 - Narcissist or Machiavellian???

20:47 - A Good (Bad) Example

22:49 - Ego & Power

24:46 - The Hacker Mindset

30:54 - Cybercrime Variants

35:29 - The Power of Trust

38:43 - Take a Second

43:55 - Wrap Up

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44:33 - Outro

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Benson, M.L. 1985, \\u201cDenying the guilty mind: Accounting for involvement in white collar crime\\u201d, Criminology, vol. 23, pp. 583\\u2013607

Blythe, M., Petrie, H., & Clark, J. A. (2011, May). F for fake: four studies on how we fall for phish. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 3469-3478).

Cowan, L. (2014). The Psychopath: What\'s Love Got to Do with It?. Psychological Perspectives, 57(3), 291-311.

DSM-IV Task Force 1994, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fourth edition), American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC

Duffield, G. M., & Grabosky, P. N. (2001). The psychology of fraud (Vol. 199). Canberra: Australian Institute of criminology.

Fisher, K. (2015). The Psychology of Fraud: What Motivates Fraudsters to Commit Crime?. Available at SSRN 2596825.

Frankel, T. (2012). The Ponzi scheme puzzle: A history and analysis of con artists and victims. Oxford University Press.

Hare, R. D. (1999). Without conscience: The disturbing world of the psychopaths among us. Guilford Press.

Konnikova, M. (2017). The confidence game: Why we fall for it... Every time. Penguin.

Krambia-Kapardis, M 2001, Enhancing the Auditor\\u2019s Fraud Detection Ability: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.

Muscanell, N. L., Guadagno, R. E., & Murphy, S. (2014). Weapons of influence misused: A social influence analysis of why people fall prey to internet scams. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(7), 388-396.

Teitcher, J. E., Bockting, W. O., Bauermeister, J. A., Hoefer, C. J., Miner, M. H., & Klitzman, R. L. (2015). Detecting, preventing, and responding to \\u201cfraudsters\\u201d in internet research: ethics and tradeoffs. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 43(1), 116-133.