The price of gullibility

What happens when you really really really want a hard-to-believe thing to be true and someone offers to show you proof? For a lot of money? In advance?

Two Bigfoot researchers found out the hard way when two Georgia men sold them a gorilla costume.

The secret of con games isn't to convince the victim that highly improbable or impossible things are true. It's to exploit the things they already believe. And to tap into their weaknesses.

Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer weren't even very good con men. They hadn't even thought through how to get away with their scam. Yet Steve Kulls and Tom Biscardi were duped. Easily. Because proof would validate them, show everyone they weren't fools. Now they have proof they are fools. And something to wear Halloween.