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“Con artists and magicians are cut from the same
cloth.”Nick Fedoroff
“There is a fine line between a con artist, and a
magician.” David Blaine
Facinaton Wizadry
Illusion Distraction
Misdirection
Swift Performance Prestidigitation
Charming Confidence
Distract ion Misdirection PromptPerformanceChiseler
SwindlerGrifterMarkScamHeartless
People amazed by
magic...
People un-aware about cons...
Peter, London
“These are worthless people that don’t deserve a LIFE”Josh, Newcastle
Louise, Manchester
Mike, USA
‘Bloody hell! and we
were only drinking water!’
“Still talking about his
magic, and wondering. So many of the things I
saw him do, I cannot
explain, and seem quite
impossible!”“Hang him or the electric chair for scams like him ! All the money must be returned to the people!”
The fastest
magician alive is Eldon Wigton who performed 225 tricks in 2 minutes for a World Record attempt in 1991 The largest magic club (International Brotherhood of Magicians) has close to 25,000 members.
David Copper-
field is the first living magician to have a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. The only other magician is Harry
Houdini.
Magic is bigger than you
think...
lat-est official fig-ures, 84,078 people are currently in prison in the UK. Male pris-oners outnum-ber female prisoners by more than 21 to one In 2009 the cost of organised crime in the UK is £40billion a year.
The word ‘criminal’ has been in the language since around 1400 but ‘policeman’ arrived only in 1788 and ‘detective’ in 1843.
how-ever Con Artists are big-ger...