Watch Out For the Hypnotic Scam Artist

People love to be entertained by fantastic hypnotists who have their subjects dancing like the "Chippendales" or singing like Madonna.  We watch as people bark like dogs and crawl like babies.  The funny things people will do on stage under hypnosis never seem to leave the audience disappointed.  The shows are fun.

Well, that was until I went to a seminar where it just wasn't funny anymore. 

After the attendees at this particular "wealth" seminar had been put under hypnosis several times in previous seminars by this hypnotist, I witnessed as he got in front of the audience and auctioned off a one-hundred dollar bill and made $50,000.00! 

Yes, my zeros are correct . . . Fifty thousand dollars for a one-hundred dollar bill. 

Who would do something so ridiculous?  Who would pay $50,000.00 for a one-hundred dollar bill?  Could it be, just maybe . . . someone who was "hypnotized" and fed the right hypnotic phrases?

Hmm! 

 "We're going to play a game now, and this is how the game goes."  The hypnotist started out.  "I'm going to offer this one-hundred dollar bill to the highest bidder.  But the catch is this.  The two highest bidders have to pay, but only the highest bidder gets the one-hundred dollar bill." 

Say What?  Who would go for something so ridiculous? Are you saying that if I am the second highest bidder, I have to pay and get absolutely nothing? 

Oh yes!  This is how the game goes!

Hmm!

I remember shouting out something like "$10.00!"  Then I heard "$500.00!" 

All I could think to myself was, "People!  Hello!  It's a one-hundred dollar bill!  What are you doing?"

I then sat back and watched the scene unfold.  The bidding went higher and higher.  The Auctioneer/Hypnotist actually had to stop the bidding because it got too far out of hand. 

All I can tell you is that this Auctioneer/Hypnotist made $50,000.00 off of his one-hundred dollar bill . . . that's where he stopped the bidding and requested for the two highest bidders to pay up. (Oh!  By the way.  He was nice enough to give both of the high bidders $100.00.)

Hmm! 

I know you are saying, "No, Karen!  He made more than $50,000.00 . . . Remember the highest two people had to pay!"

I know.  I'm pretty good in math.  I stated that he made only $50,000.00 because I  suspect, that just maybe, one of those high bidders was a plant.  Just maybe . . . I can't be sure though.  I just ask myself repeatedly, "Why does the top two (2) bidders in the game have to pay?"

Hmm! 

To understand how this hypnotist was able to pull off this scam, I suggest you read Robert B. Cialdini's book, Influence:  The Psychology of Persuasion.  Having the same goal as I have, to dilute the effectiveness of the scam artist's poisonous venom, one of the things that Robert Cialdini brilliantly explains is how people can get suckered in auction environments.

Robert B. Cialdini's  tells a true story of how even a top network executive got sucker-punched in an auction for the movie, "The Poseidon Adventure," and after catching his breath, this top executive made the statement that his network would never again enter into an auction situation.

Now, let me test your computing skills. 

Add this together for me:

An auction environment that's just right for a scam

plus

An audience full of people who allowed themselves to be hypnotized by the Auctioneer/Hypnotist  . . .

What do you get?  

Hmm! 

All I can say is that he GOT at least $50,000.00 for his one-hundred dollar bill!

Influence:  The Psychology of Persuasion is definitely a book that con artists and scammers don't want you to read.  This book will definitely give you power over them!

Self-Empowerment is the Key to Never Getting Scammed Again!

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