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Vikram Gandhi - Being Kumaré, the Fake Guru

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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Is the Nigerian Prince Scam Working?

Kumari: Scamming is selling, right? It's not intuitive. So what we did was we said, do you want to meet a real guru from the Himalayas? We found that that drew people and also people are really open-minded to it because that's what someone was looking for. A lot of people were so receptive and moved that we knew who we could bring along on our journey. The point of this sort of tangent is that you can weed out the people who are skeptical by just being straightforward.

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