If they don't live with you, they'll call incessantly to keep track of your whereabouts. "Scam artists use what I call 'tending behaviors' and 'narrowing tactics': They often try to isolate you from family and friends - whether yours or his - in order to limit your ability to speak with people who might help you get a reality check on his stories. Is there evidence to back up the information? Have you met family and friends who can back up his tale of winning a Purple Heart? Have you seen his diploma from Harvard? Before you plunge too deeply into a relationship, think about what you really know about the person. If they laugh at others' suffering - not a nervous laugh, but genuine laughter at someone's pain," that's a sign that you've got a psychopath on your hands, Turvey says.ĭespite the grandiose boasting, Caldwell notes, pathological liars tend to know more intimate and personal details about your life than you do about theirs. "Another sign is someone who is amused by cruelty. "Also, watch out for people who constantly need to borrow money - they always have a sob story, or they've 'forgotten their wallets.' "Con artists and other psychopaths spend a lot of time talking about themselves in a self-aggrandizing fashion - bragging about their larger-than-life accomplishments and grand schemes, which are often completely fabricated," Turvey notes.
They are parasitic and live off of others' goodwill."īut there are signs to look out for. Turvey adds: "Con artists look for people who have low self-esteem and exploit that.
We live in a culture where self-interest and instant gratification are rewarded, so it's sometimes difficult to spot the psychopaths among us." RED FLAGS At one end of the continuum, you have violent criminals - at the milder end, you have functioning, highly successful narcissists who do well professionally and abide by the law but wreak interpersonal havoc. "Basically, psychopaths view other people as sources of gratification and act accordingly without remorse or conscience. "People who con others are generally psychopaths," says Brent Turvey, forensic scientist and criminal profiler at the Academy of Behavioral Profiling in Sitka, Alaska, and author of the just-released second edition of "Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis."Ĭontrary to popular belief, criminality and psychopathy don't always go hand-in-hand, although they certainly often do. Romantic liars try to speed the pace of a relationship so that it becomes intense very quickly." But slow down and take a lot of time before granting your complete trust to a potential partner. And we need those tendencies for society to function, or else we'd be a nation of paranoid people. How do I get over this and move on? And how can I detect a con artist in the future and prevent this from happening again?Ī: "We operate under a truth bias, whereby we generally assume that someone is honest," says Sally Caldwell, a sociologist at Southwest Texas State University and author of " Romantic Deception: The Six Signs He's Lying." "We're also taught to be polite, so we're afraid to challenge someone's words for fear of appearing rude. He's out there running around laughing at my naivete. I want to get him out of my mind, but I just can't get over what has happened. I cannot even afford a lawyer to get a divorce and move on with my life. Right now, he's riding a $30,000 motorcycle he bought with my money. Q: I married a scam artist and now I'm $165,000 in the hole.
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