Originally Posted by
billygoat
Thanks, Scott. I usually pride myself on not being gullible, but this time I was "gulled" pretty good.
As human beings, and specially if you are an honest person, you expect other human beings to generally be honest. It says a lot about your Character, honestly. =)
I wouldn't feel bad at all about any of this. You have to first disbelieve before you can see what I saw, and the only reason I saw what I did is because I am already convinced that it's not possible, so for me everything that comes after is a scam. You were willing to believe because you are a good, honest person and think outside the box. Matter of fact, it takes an intelligent, thoughtful person to even be ready to accept possibilities outside what other people think. Contrary to what you might think, your posting of this leads me to believe you are more intelligent than the average person, probably more intelligent than you give yourself credit for.
The person who posted the video has some experience being dishonest, it's the words he says as he is doing the video that lead you to believe something other than the truth.
I have a pretty solid background in psychology, there were other factors that quickly led me to believe that this person was lying, even before I saw where he was misleading the viewers. First, his hands are way too well manicured, this guy hasn't seen a days worth of work, ever. Second was his accent. I have never, with the exception of one time, in all my traveling all over the world ever heard an accent like that, or anything close. Specially from someone with white skin, except for one time. That was the movie Borat, which was a fictitious person/character from a fictitious country. I suspect the person who made the video was someone who spoke English as their native tongue, the words they chose to use, and the way they put their sentences together were just exactly like someone who spoke English as their first language.
Also remember, scam artists are most of the time, the nicest most wonderful people you would ever meet. They are convincing in a way other people are not. They work very hard to seem that way in order to make their scam work. It's what they practice at doing, their entire life. You don't practice your entire life to catch scam artists. Matter of fact, if a scam artist puts in the time required just to be a partial success, even they were lazy, they would still fool the majority of people just because they have spent far more time practicing how to deceive than others have practiced how to catch them.
Anyway, it was an interesting post.
Scott
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