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Investing it // If the hair is gray, con artists see green

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Title: Investing it // If the hair is gray, con artists see green
Date: Sunday, 21 May 1995
Publisher: New York Times
Author: Constance L. Hays
Main source: nytimes.com
Tags: Constance L. Hays • Cult Awareness Network (CAN) (earlier form, Citizen's Freedom Foundation) • Cynthia Kisser • Margaret Thaler Singer • New York Times

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BETTY NORMAN was no match for the telephone con men who emptied her pockets of more than $40,000. A plain-talking widow who runs a small motel in Ionia, Mich., a town of state prisons and apple orchards, Mrs. Norman, born and raised here, was taught to believe that people are essentially honest. So she trusted salespeople who picked up details about her life in seemingly casual telephone chat while pitching her pens, costume jewelry and other trinkets. And after being swindled ... [Read the rest at nytimes.com]