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In a moment of desperation, we lose the ability to think logically and are ready to believe anyone who promises to help. Post a cure for the deadly disease, to find a missing relative, to raise money for treatment. And on our helplessness willingly profit from those for whom someone else's misfortune - an occasion to make.
Who profit from other people's problems
1. Psevdoblagotvoriteli
The social networks are often ads appear on the collection of money for treatment. Children and adults with cancer, congenital abnormalities and serious injuries - all they need helpTo which no money nor relatives, nor from the state. Someone hurry browses these ads, someone makes a repost and encourages friends to help someone he transfers the money. Only here very often these desperate cries for help hide speculators who cynically parasites on our sympathy.
Fraudsters use several schemes. Usually just steal information from these groups to raise funds. Copy photos and scanned documents, and sometimes even createLzheblagotvoritelnost, or how scammers earn on another mountain clones pages charities and only change the details to transfer money on their own. Sometimes fraudsters represented employees fund rubbedAs fraudsters earn on another mountain the confidence of the desperate relatives of patients and actively raise money for his treatment. There is no longer any theft and forgery - a real man with Nonfictional trouble. Only here the collection is conducted in map "Benefactor" and to the need that money and do not reach.
Fun play on human sympathy, that in itself is disgusting. But this is only part of the problem. Ran into one on these people or reading a story about how others have suffered, the next time someone otmahnotsya from the next collection out of fear of being cheated. So it affects not only the wallets of those who care, but also to children and adults who really need help.
Lzheblagotvoriteli not a reason to refuse assistance. But before moving someone money, take the time to check the information.
Use the image search: Do photos from ads on other websites do not occur? google name, phone number and credit card. If fraudsters already lit, perhaps, someone wrote about it.
Ask your medical records if they are not placed on the page and check whether the names and dates coincide with those contained in the text of posts. In addition, in the pages of funds and private groups that really are raising money to help people, always place detailed reports on received and spent funds. If no such data is to ask where they can be seen. Avoiding an answer, refusal, blocking should alert you.
If the collection is carried out on behalf of the Charitable fund, call the official phone number and check the information.
Alexandra
He believed a fraud and helped her collect the money. Not her real name at her request.
Five years ago, I led in "VKontakte" group with beautiful pictures and positive quotes. I wrote to an unknown girl, asked for help: her seriously ill child needs money for medical treatment. Chronic renal failure, and they live in a tiny town, miserable wages, not enough for the necessary medicines. Please attach a photo of the kid and scans statements.
I looked, sentimental, placed in his pablike 10 thousand people post about fundraising. Help the girl to create your own group, write posts. Campaigned friends to join the community and to transfer money, charging for it. She also made several transfers.
At some point, one of my online friends, getting away from me a message, hesitated: "How is it, why the child is not treated by the MLA" She offered the girl to show certificates, statements and destination pediatric nephrology in Moscow that he consulted and suggested how to organize a free medical examination and treatment at a Moscow hospital - could be on a quota or More somehow.
And then began the strangest. The girl began to make excuses, saying some nonsense: that it is inconvenient, it does not trust the doctors, it is still some kind of excuse. Neither mother seriously ill child, in my opinion, will not refuse help with treatment and examination. We suddenly realized that all the documents that it has laid out, just some pieces of different statements and conclusions. Familiar asked for the full version to at least just to see a specialist, but she (and maybe not a girl at all) did not say anything and blocked both of us.
Then I checked the number "Yandex-purse", to which she transferred money. It turned out that the girl was lighted in black zoovolontorov list: collecting funds for the treatment of non-existent puppies.
On its pages I immediately wrote a rebuttal. It was terribly ashamed that friends and followers because I transferred money swindler. Apparently, someone has to complain about it and she removed the group. But the police for some reason I did not return. I even do not know why.
2. Psevdofarmatsevty
On the seriously ill people are parasites not only psevdoblagotvoriteli. some scamIt turns out to have a cure for any disease - even from those with whom they can not yet handle the official medicine. For example, cancer. And they are willing to share these miracle drugs for a tidy sum: 5000Scammers selling fake drugs to cancer patients rubles, or 30 thousand dollars30,000 dollarovza vial of cancer - there can be as lucky.
I believe it ill person spend not only money, but also time - an invaluable resource and irreparable. If adequate treatment of a malignant tumor in stage I started, five-year survival comesTypes of cancer treatment to 92%. In stage II, this figure drops to 76%, on III - up to 56%.
Fraudsters who get mixed up in basements or counterfeit drugs are sold for big moneyScammers are cashing in on cancer patients: in Kiev broke out a huge scandal sick people chalk or mushrooms, enjoy the fact that medicine has not omnipotent. A person who learns about the terrible diagnosis, is desperate and can not think rationally. But the miracle cure from cancer, unfortunately, not yet invented.
3. Psevdospasateli
According to various sources in Russia each year lost up to 100 thousand people. For 2018 search-and-rescue team "Liza Alert" wasSearch-and-rescue team "Liza Alert" almost 14 thousand applications for missing person. They are looking for relatives, police officers and volunteers. For days combing the woods, pasting ads disseminate information on the Internet. Free of charge.
But for some of the missing search - it's business. For example, for those who call themselves private investigators and offersBusiness for tears desperate relatives for money to break the missing person, for some mysterious base, which for some reason is not present at the police, nor the search engines-volunteers.
And, of course, can not stay away all sorts of fortune-tellers, psychics and clairvoyants. His distant from the truth versions they are confusing relatives and sometimes a consequence ofPsychics are forced to search for the missing students in Moscow in Chechnya. And their bodies were 9 years at the bottom of the pond. As a result of funneling precious minutes, and after the first 72 hours - the most importantNatalia Malinovskaja "Lisa Alert": "Maniac kill within two hours" for searching. If a person can not be found during this time, chances to find him alive are significantly reduced.
at missing child reaction efficiency even more critical. Search should begin immediately, even a few hours of delay can be fatal. In no case can not spend it on charlatans. Psychic ability is not provenFailing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem's 'Retroactive Facilitation of Recall' Effect scientifically. Missing can be found only by those who are looking for, rather than those who looks into the glass bowl.
Oleg Molodovsky
Coordinator of the search and rescue team "Liza Alert».
I've been involved in the search for the missing since 2012. Sometimes a psychic claims that people drowned, but they say it in those circumstances, when everything and so more or less obvious. If a fortune teller says that the missing alive or dead, it is clear that 50% of the time it will be right. In practice, "Liza Alert" was not a single case where the psychic would give information that really helped to find a man.
Although relatives, unfortunately, apply to such people quite often. Or they find their own, for example in social networks. Some even call us on the hotline and asked to contact relatives: that they feel, where missing, and what happened to him. Someone dreamed someone dreamed. Of course, we do not give any contact and urge the relatives of the missing not to leave their data in social networks, so that all Information held by us and we can filter out the crooks, charlatans and cranks who really believe that they have some abilities.
Yes, part of the fortune-tellers, astrologers and psychics eager to help completely free on pure enthusiasm. They even have a group in social networks, where they discuss the search, share versions and guesses, discuss. I can not understand what makes them tick.
We basically do not consider the information from the psychics. Never. First, treat such things very skeptical. And secondly, with the number of applications that we receive, we technically not possible to work out each version, which took it to someone in the head. We can not and have no right to waste time on it. We have proven over the years its search methods.
But the relatives of all those "experts" can be very confusing and give false hope. Not so long ago was the story: the family trusted psychic, raised a lot of caring people to search for a man, who by that time was already dead. People were sending information, disseminating leaflets. And then it turned out that they have spent time and effort because of the fabrications of the clairvoyant.
There are scammers who do not bother. Call us on the hotline and that they know where the missing, but informed about it only for a fee. Millet phone relatives. We deny them, but if they find the missing family themselves, they begin to extort money. And of course, the information they provide in the end turns out to be a lie.
4. Psevdomediumy
C as long as people have begun to realize its mortalityThey try to look behind the veil of secrecy and speak with those who are left. In the XIX century began to talk with the deadMediums and mystics of the Silver Age a sort of popular entertainment. Enlightened the audience went to the seances, and even appearedCharacter and mask in a photo of the XIX century a particular genre of photography when a picture using decorations or retouching depicted "objects of the other world."
It took 150 years. Epoch table-, ghostly howls and automatic writing is over, but still there are people supposedly speaking with spirits. For their services they take the money, taking advantage of the credulity and the grief of those who lost their loved ones and trying to find solace.
Meanwhile, no scientific evidence of supernatural abilities there. Back in 1876, Dmitry Mendeleyev collectedThe final session of Dmitri Mendeleev created on the initiative of the Commission of mediumistic phenomena Commission, which issued a verdict: "spiritualistic phenomena stem from unconscious movements or conscious deception, and spiritualistic doctrine is a superstition."
In 2015, biologist and science journalist Alexander Panchin together with other scientists establishedPrize named after Harry Houdini prize named after Harry Houdini. A man who will confirm their psychic abilities within the framework of a controlled scientific experiment, promise to give one million rubles. The winner is still there. As there is in it, and a similar awardSkeptic Revamps $ 1M Psychic Prize scientific skeptic James Randi. And the magic of the popular TV show "Battle of psychics" have repeatedly denounced"I prompted," magicians "answers for the money": former editor of the show "Battle of psychics," she told what's going on behind the scenes of the project.
Clairvoyance, spiritualism and magic rituals are not the only way to talk to the dead.
Technical progress is dictating its terms, and now even the ghosts agree to get in touch with the living with the help of technology. But the phone they do not yet recognize and enjoy TVs and radios.
To hear the voice dead, You need to write the white noise and the process result in the editor: remove noise, turn up here and be quiet there, possibly even flip the record to sound backwards. And then - voila - among rustling, rustling and crackling can be disassembled message from the afterlife. It is calledEGF | EVP | ITC - communication with the fine world electronic voice phenomenon.
ITC adepts - to communicate with the dead with the help of radios and televisions - is incorrect to compare with psychics. They do not take credit for any paranormal abilities, do not take tens of thousands of rubles for a consultation. But they write and sell books and old Voice RecordersThat supposedly ideal for recording voices from the other world. And at the same time mislead people and give them false hope, which later can turn into suffering.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon is not proven scientifically. But if a long time to listen to the White noiseEspecially passed through the audio editor, and the truth is, you can hear something like it. Only explanation is quite simple. For example, through interference may accidentally break the voices and melodies with other frequencies. Or a person gives in wishful thinking and hear what really wants to hear. As participants in the experimentAnother White Christmas: fantasy proneness and reports of 'hallucinatory experiences' in undergraduate students.Who were asked to press a button when they hear white noise in tune White Christmas. And they really clicked on the button, but no melody they were not included.
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Why do people trust the fraudsters
1. They want to negotiate salvation
When there is a mountain, such as serious illness or loss of a loved one, it is going through the five stages of acceptance of the inevitable in humans: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, in fact, acceptance. This concept periodically criticized. For example, they say that is not always observed all five stages and they do not necessarily go in a strict order.
One thing is for sure: in difficult times it is very difficult to think critically. Man is ready to believe anything, only to find the hope to rely on something and alleviate their suffering. At the stage of trading, many are trying to knock salvation hit in religion, vows, turning to clairvoyants, fortune tellers and healers - that is, to those who promise to heal, to find missing loved ones or to talk with the dead.
2. Victims of manipulation
Scammers are able to skillfully manipulateAnd to oppose them is quite difficult. They may bully, push, substitute concepts ubaltyvat. Psychics and fortune tellers use the Barnum effect: throw the victim statements, some of which are due to the vague wording can be taken on your account. For example, they say: "You have experienced a great loss," "You are suffering serious doubts." The likelihood that these characteristics of people recognize themselves and their situation, rather big. And if it was originally set up to psychics loyal, you can take the above for the truth.
This effect in 1949, described the psychologist Bertram Forer. He conducted an experimentForer - The fallacy of personal validation: Under the guise of personality test to his students gave a vague response from the horoscope, and asked for a five-point scale to assess whether it meets the truth. Students came to the conclusion that is consistent - the average score was 4.26 points. Although the description of all were the same. It Barnum effect is to blame for the fact that people believe horoscopes, Predictions and other nonsense.
In addition, some psychics and magicians in advance collect customer information and present it as a result of their paranormal abilities.
3. trust authorities
For example, parents, teachers, bosses, public personalities. If one of them says that the soda can cure cancer, and psychics are able to find the missing people, people also begin to share such views.
Families distrust of official medicine or belief in the supernatural at all times "is inherited." The baby absorbs the installation and judgments of parents and transfers them into adulthood, often not analyzed.
4. See patterns where there are none
Some believe that the "after" and "because of" - synonyms. Feel better after taking the homeopathy - so it helps. He broke his leg after a road ran across a black cat? Sign work. The horoscope promised financial success, and the next day the chief raised his salary? So, astrologers tell the truth.
Most often, these events have nothing to do, but who cares, if you believe in signs, magic and the horoscope is much more interesting than the dry facts.
How to avoid becoming a victim of fraud
1. Develop critical thinking
Read non-fiction books and articles, watch videos from popularizers of science, Listen to lectures on physics, biology, anthropology, medicine, and fill gaps in knowledge. Do not read the yellow press, train yourself not to trust the information if it is not confirmed by research, or words of certified professionals. All this will increase your level of education and help develop a healthy skepticism. You will be more difficult to confuse and make you believe in any nonsense, even in critical situations.
2. check information
Do you want to sell miracle drug for all diseases? Offer to raise money for treatment? They say that they know the location of your missing relative? Before trusting strangers, try to gather as much information as possible. Who are they, how you find, if they can prove that they work in a hospital or the police, were not these people seen in the fraud. Start with a simple search on the name, last name, phone number and credit card. Take the time to contact the hospital or charitable foundation, which acts as your companion.
3. Ask for help
In an emergency, people often fall into despair and dream, someone waved a magic wand and fix everything. At such times, better coordinate all solutions with close, if you did not notice the trick, maybe they will notice. Also, be sure to check with the experts: doctors, lawyers, police officers. Sided view of the situation will take the right decision.
People who earn on another mountain - the most disgusting kind of scam. Share article on social networks to your friends and family know how these scammers, do not fall for their tricks, and even in a critical situation to maintain clarity of thought.
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