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'Ask a Curator' Twitter Experiment Hijacked by Viagra?

(Sept. 1) -- Can Twitter, the oft-superficial, 140-character-limited microblog, help to bring the rich, lengthy history of some of the world's finest museums into the 21st century? That was, at least, the goal of "Ask a curator," the global, virtual Q-and-A going on right now in which Twitter users are able to shoot off...

Making (Up) the Grade: Top All-Time Harvard Grifters

(May 18) -- Given Harvard's knack for attracting the brilliant and industrious, it follows that any campus con artists would be similarly gifted. Long before Adam Wheeler scammed his way into this fabled Ivy League university, dozens of frauds ingeniously infiltrated the Crimson. Here are the most notorious six. 1....

Background on scammers

A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual operating alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naivety and greed.

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