These scams work because most people have little experience with sociopaths and trust their "felt sense" of the other person. A sociopath evokes a great feeling of trust, confidence and well-being in others when they want to manipulate another. Its really quite amazing. I've worked with a prison population before and several of my clients were sociopaths. When they need something from you they charm you so deeply and profoundly. A normal person has no protection from it other than their intellect over-riding their direct experience which is being conned. This is why people wrote letters supporting Jeru Hall, con man supreme. He can make them fell good about themselves while he's stealing their wallet.
--- On Wed, 12/17/08, boo_lives <boo_li...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: boo_lives <boo_li...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who done it (?) > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 11:02 AM > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > > > BTW, word out in the meditating community of Jeru Hall > is that > > evidently 150 people did write character reference > letters to Jeru's > > Federal judge. > > Here's one story of how these guys operated --- > http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/InPerson/MajorPerson/Prime/quantum_gold.htm > > One woman who invested in Quantum Gold said she trusted > Sumeru because > of his transcendental meditation connections. Carole > Speight, who grew > up in Dallas and moved to Hawaii several years ago to start > a TM > center, said a fellow meditator in Hawaii introduced her to > Sumeru. > The two of them told her about Quantum Gold. > > Speight, who prefers to be called Lalita, admitted that she > was and is > an inexperienced, unsophisticated investor. But her > 90-year-old mother > needed extensive nursing and medical care, and Lalita was > afraid her > mother's $30,000 in life savings would quickly be eaten > up. On the > other hand, Quantum Gold's promised 10% to 14% monthly > returns would > provide a steady cash flow for her mother's expenses. > So Lalita put > her mother's $30,000 savings, plus another $10,000 she > borrowed > against a credit card, into Quantum Gold. She believed her > mother > would receive at least $4,000 a month from that $40,000 > investment. > > Lalita, who works as an herbal nutritionist and no longer > practices > TM, never received any monthly payments. When she wrote to > Sumeru > asking what had happened, he wrote back that he was not at > fault. "The > caveat emptor was very clear in the contract," he told > her. "No > guarantees. Period. Each investor was given the > responsibility upon > himself or herself to accept the risk. The risk was clearly > stated. By > speaking in a poisonous way to me, you are only amusing and > saddening > me. You are biting the very hand that could be a blessing > to you." > > Sumeru blamed the Quantum Gold problems on "dark > forces." When Lalita > suggested hiring a private investigator, Sumeru told her > that he > already had arranged for an investigator to work on the > case, but > could not give her any details: > > "All I know is that a recent acquaintance who is on a > very, very high > level in the trading and financial world was sympathetic to > my > description of what happened to the Q investors, and he > called one of > his very highly placed investigators. He did this only on > the > condition that his name stay out of any mention to anyone > else, > because he has a powerful career and has no direct concern > with our > problem." > > Finally, Sumeru scolded her: "Rather than contributing > to the > solution, you have simply consumed my time, and you have > shown no > respect for the blessings I have been trying to bring to > the world." > > Lalita said she talked with the FBI in Hawaii, but decided > against > pursuing criminal charges -- for now -- because it is still > difficult > for her to believe that she was intentionally cheated. > "I thought, > these people can't be criminals, they're my > friends. They're > meditators," she said. > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
