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Human Deception
Languages:
- Dunnigan and Nofi: concealment, camouflage, false/planted information, ruses, displays, demonstrations, feints, lies, insight
- Chuck Whitlock introduces 86 specific scams in his book in words used by the scammers
- Bob Fellows introduces 21 deception classes and 16 reasons people fall prey to them
- Other authors offer other sets of words
Deception is common in everyday life
- Humans live by it - and die by it
Notes:
There are a lot of different language elements used to describe deceptions for different communities. The criminal scam community uses different words for the same things as the warfighting community and these are often quite different from the words used in the psychological community. Each has a lot to learn from the others.