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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Importance of Familiarity in Fraud

In many cases, yes, I don't know the exact relationships among all of them, but certainly these so-called master slave relationships and so on, it was women with women. It was not, you know, it ultimately led up to Keith Renary. There's always a, there's a main element in the success of a lot of frauds is the use of simply what we refer to as familiarity,. And if people like you recruit you, then you're more likely to get in.

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