Neurologists and psychologists have found that our predilection for trusting others-a trait that has helped us survive as a species-is a major reason con artists thrive. Readers enjoy stories of deception that upend the expected and make us question assumptions.
The book 'The Confidence Men' recounts a true story of prisoners of war in World War I who used a Ouija board scam to trick their captors into letting them leave the camp.
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