Jim Rose is a magician and street con specialist. Following up on a recent post, The Psychology of Grifting, I think Rose is the perfect graduate grifting instructor. Watch in the video below as he teaches a recent con victim how to work the same con that she was victimized by (a sort of con-cognitive therapy), and he illustrates another version of the “pigeon drop” con.
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