👁️ Look Here: Why Every Great Deception Starts with Stolen Attention
Episode description
Welcome to issue #3 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it.
In this week's episode: 🚨 Your attention is under attack! 🚨
From WWII rubber tanks to 2023’s phantom Paris bedbugs, the first strike of any scam is the same: steal your gaze, shape your reality. This issue of Deceptive Minds is all about “attention theft”—how con-artists, phishers, and AI-powered tricksters hijack that split-second between stimulus and thought…and what to do about it.
🕵️♂️🗞️I NSIDE:
- Operation Fortitude’s audacious distraction playbook
- The modern attention-hijack toolkit (urgency, authority, AI personalization)
- Fast-action defenses to keep your cognitive perimeter intact
- ... and a few other fun items from the past week!
Listen now: turn the tables on the impostors, and guard the one resource every attacker wants first: your focus.
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Stay sharp,
— Perry
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