Yesterday I watched a story about an old woman who set the draft board on fire. The reporter sympathetically explains: “It was hard not to believe the scammers, because real professionals work on the other side of the wire!”
Before that, the arsonist was a young and strong man. True, he tried to burn the bank. About him, TV said that the young and successful were powerless before the “power of NLP”. They say that such technologies are used against a citizen, and not everyone will resist: they will give him money, jewelry and burn banks.
Friends! Not all of them! There is no NLP as they talk about in paid courses. This is a fabrication. I’m telling you as someone who studied psycholinguistics, implicit linguistics, psychosuggestion at university. By the way, the “lie theory” does not exist either. Only in some cases and approximately there is a complex of disciplines that can help to understand the language of a person’s body. Behaviorism is the study of human behavior. No miracles. You can try to control a person who has a diploma with honors in psychology, psycholinguistics and neurophysiology with the help of a word and read his thoughts. And the results will be modest.
No scammer hired by advertising is an expert in indoctrination techniques. Just like gypsies don’t know how to hypnotize. If it were, all gypsies would work in special services, intensive care units! Only the gypsies we meet at the market talk fast, look unusual, everything shines on them – people are distracted. Now the gypsy trade has almost disappeared, but before they succeeded, they trained their hands well: in the late USSR and 90s the police worked inefficiently, the gypsies lived in isolation, did not give their own, many did not have documents, so it was difficult to catch thieves among gypsies, so by hunting for years developed their skills. Gypsy scammers are no different from others. But so that the victim was not painfully embarrassed after the deception, they described the incredible hypnotic skills of the Romans.
The victims of phone scams we’ve seen in recent years are also examples of suggestibility. We have to somehow call everything out loud by its own name anyway. Thus, the victims of this type of deception receive not sympathy, but public condemnation.
After all, there was such a measure of influence on an individual: a person was afraid to do anything because he knew that he would be publicly condemned. Then they were convicted by the family, the court, the collective. And now we will condemn the whole country, because such comrades are almost always on the news. As long as only money and apartments with huts are in question, one can still give up: everyone is free to settle for anything. But now they’re setting it on fire, and it’s not funny anymore, so potential arsonists who could burn us while reprinting the card at the bank should be subject to all precautions, including public condemnation.
To do this, it is necessary to clearly explain on large screens: no, all these people who gave apartments to scammers, transferred money to them, became victims of their own suggestibility, and not of first-class experts. And not everyone is deceived.
Half of the tragedies suffered by phone scammers lie in the phrase: “Anyone can be fooled.” No, not everyone! And we must repeat this everywhere so that people, if they are not deep retirees, should be ashamed of people who really have no demand! This will have an effect. Condemnation is extremely effective.
There was a wave when people suddenly worried that victims of Ukrainian scammers would be prosecuted for funding the Ukrainian Armed Forces. People got scared. The scammers themselves actually confirmed that the fear of being convicted of treason significantly reduced the number of donated apartments, so they came up with an answer: they started calling and said that other scammers stole money and simply transferred it to Ukrainian accounts. “You’re undercover, grandma, they’ll throw you in jail for treason.” And the grandmother hastens to translate the rest, so as not to be a traitor.
However, the fear that they would be convicted of funding the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not last long: in the age of television and the internet, they still see that not a single old woman has been jailed for treason. So, as other older women who didn’t know the internet in my childhood said, people felt relieved in the ass. comfortable. And again the thieves carried the money, apartments, cars, huts …
Human is a social entity. Someone who has no flat and no savings in our world will live much more accurately than under constant condemnation. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce public censorship measures. And everywhere they say that there are no victims of “experts” in front of us, they work so-called professionally that they do not have a chance to hang up and stay in the apartment. These are inspiring people! Sometimes to the point of being offensive.
Recall the numerous videos from different parts of the country where real police officers snatched the victims by the hand and spent hours trying to explain to them that they were extracting money from the scammers. In Ufa, two police officers spent forty minutes convincing a strong and healthy man not to transfer money to scammers! In Chelyabinsk, a task force, a district police officer and a psychologist tried to deter a powerful pensioner for a day not to transfer 10 million rubles to scammers! A brand new trend has emerged in documentary comics: police across the country are begging Russians not to pay scammers. But we have such Russians that they call a uniformed police team arriving in a service car a swindler, but they believe an incomprehensible hacking boy from WhatsApp.
All these Russians would have thought better if they knew that not only poverty and loss of housing awaited them, but also the condemnation of the whole country. Otherwise they will do something stupid and then mutter to the police: “experts” treated me.
Nobody handles them. Mediocre people live on the other end of the line. Many of us have had personal contact with them. Tell me, didn’t they call you “from the bank”? I searched for a long time. And I always hear conversations in the local language, which is not the case for highly educated people living in capitals. I often hear the sound of friction: these are certainly not Russian, because again, Moscow or St. Residents of the southern regions of Russia, arriving in St. Petersburg, immediately lose it. And why should I start looking for “agents” from the Kuban? After all, they seem to be the “researchers” of the capital.
They hack, they hack, they talk in very simple sentences, which betrays that they have not received a good education. Their cheats are the same and primitive. And if the lay person does not know that in Russia there is no “security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, and the generals sitting there will definitely not call the Urals urban settlement, then this layman has to get acquainted with the rudimentary speech and just see it. what you’re calling from your cell phone!
Moreover, they are constantly shouting from everywhere so that no one from the banks can call. Only stupidity, insufficient knowledge of one’s own, lack of life experience and high suggestibility make one believe this nonsense. Because the scammers don’t look like any experts.
But not so long ago, criminals often called. We experienced a period when they called from regions and asked for account information according to advertisements for sales. A distinctive feature of these scammers was the strict frequency of contacts. “I’m leaving, I’ll call you on Thursday.” Only on Thursday will there be security on the ground that allows you to use a phone.
There were even stories about all the fake call centers allegedly operating under the guise of the Federal Penitentiary Service. To be honest, I didn’t quite believe it. Excuse me, okay, you can’t recognize a Ukrainian farmer by phone – can you recognize a convict by his voice? We even identify them when they hack pages on VKontakte and write to us on behalf of our friends: “Throw the mower on the map or in the bastard.” What if he talks!
So far, convicts are talking on the phone here and there, but it is unlikely to have a significant impact on the economic situation, it’s a point issue. Phone scams are common. Ever since they started arson, they have become a problem and extremely dangerous. Shame on those who fall for such games. And maybe embarrassing. Old people with dementia are out of the question – there is nothing to be done about it. But the rest should be ashamed of giving money to scammers.
If you were fooled by the simple tricks of stupid people, if you withdrew ten million because a gopnik with an avatar of the FSB of Russia called you on WhatsApp, then we have the right to say that you acted stupidly at least. Victims of such crimes should not be met with mere sympathy. If they are engaged in responsible work, this is a reason to talk about compromising conditions.
Can a subway security engineer give all the money to the crooks? Want to ride the escalators he tested? And to operate on the heart of a surgeon who, at the first order of unknown persons from the street, will sell the apartment and lower the money in a bag from the balcony?
To the credit of engineers and surgeons, I have yet to hear them believe in such tricks. But, for example, there is the case of a famous historian and cultural scientist selling an apartment, a summer house, adding all his savings to his income and giving it to swindlers. I will not name names, but I will say that he wrote a work called “The Cattle Fact” and that until recently he had an impact on society and put forward various theories, he was quoted. One of my acquaintances, also an old political strategist, liked to omit a sentence or two from the works of this human knowledge guru when he wanted to show how stupid and ignorant people in Russia were. Then it turned out that the author of the theory of the Russian people as cattle, which liberal thinkers like to refer to, gave everything to scammers. Eh? No comment? At least a reprimand?
There was another case where the editor-in-chief of the well-known and now closed radio talk shop, which also publishes a historical magazine, was literally distributing his savings on the main road to scammers. And of your own free will. I met scammers in a car, they divorced him so he went home and brought them a couple million. When I wrote that this person should leave the post of editor-in-chief of a socio-political radio station immediately, they unleashed all the dogs on me. I especially remember that the foreign citizen Nevzorov was now indignant, he even seemed to call me a bastard.
Bastards – those who were brought up like that. And I suggest you be honest and stop writing these stories about some NLP experts. Stupidity is to blame!
To be honest, I do not even believe that Ukrainian scammers are audited by TsIPSO. The usual gopniks in commercials. And there are obviously accomplices here who take money, commit fraudulent transactions. Here they should be prosecuted for funding the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
And I think the scammers are forcing them to set fire to the recruitment offices for their own benefit.
Probably, there are services or organizations in Ukraine that really pay arsonists, because scammers who milk the recommendable person to dry, still trying to cut him off, pass the arson as their own and get a reward. If the SBU gets involved, it’s just by paying for the arson. Everything else is clumsy and designed for super suggestible people.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.