Is there an increase in fakers/liars/fraud artists out there today

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Examples:

Pathological liar scams may people into donating to her as she claims she has cancer. She shaves head, has weight loss and even plucks eyebrows! http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/844614

Guy lying about being a child psychologist while employed by police force. He writes a report condemning a father so he has his child access compromised.
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Walker+once+called+Crown+witness/3454409/story.html


Law students lying on job interview applications about their grades to get better articling job or lying on law school application about possessing an undergrad degree. http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/555120

How do this people not realize they will get caught - especially in the age of the internet.

I mean ... really!

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[Brill]

Some people are becoming less social and disconnected from society, they lack empathy but may not be psychopathic. It's their upbringing or they're wired wrong - I don't know.

On the other hand, many people are connecting and socializing better than the previous generation, we're seeing yet another great divide.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I think there has always been fraud artist around, with the internet the stories get around much faster than in the past. I know a guy that was brought into this world by a doctor that had no credentials. The fake doctor came from Italy with false papers after WWII and worked as a doctor for over 30 years before he was discovered.

 

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Some people are becoming less social and disconnected from society, they lack empathy but may not be psychopathic. It's their upbringing or they're wired wrong - I don't know.

On the other hand, many people are connecting and socializing better than the previous generation, we're seeing yet another great divide.

I agree with this. The best thing a person can do is to always be on the lookout when someone starts to brag, or tell sugar coat stories.
My previous manager was like this and so were the people he hired. HQ made him fire 80% of his buddies before they fired him. Only a few are left and these have not changed at all, and mostly do nothing at work, just worst as before their MAnager buddy worked with us.

It WAS ALL TALK.
There area alot of people like this, some times I noticed it is Ethnical or certain countries have more in % wise doing this. It is part of their culture and also deny it.

Pretenders, and Fraud, for fraud I don't refer to money.

Quiet a few people are just social paths. There is no help for them nor will they help themselves.

 

[Moraff]

I don't have any hard data, just my gut feeling.... per capita I don't think there are that many more liars and cheats and such... the internet just gives them way wider scope and recognition (when caught) then we ever would have seen. Take the Nigerian scams for example... I'm sure there were dishonest people before the internet made that possible but they would be preying on locals not spamming the world.

And if the girl that scammed everyone into thinking she had cancer had done it over in Europe somewhere back when our parents were her age, we never would have heard about it likely... or if we did it would be a one paragraph blurb in the world news section of the paper