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👁️ Look Here: Why Every Great Deception Starts with Stolen Attention


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Welcome to issue #3 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it.

In this week's episode: 🚨 Your attention is under attack! 🚨

From WWII rubber tanks to 2023’s phantom Paris bedbugs, the first strike of any scam is the same: steal your gaze, shape your reality. This issue of Deceptive Minds is all about “attention theft”—how con-artists, phishers, and AI-powered tricksters hijack that split-second between stimulus and thought…and what to do about it.

🕵️‍♂️🗞️I NSIDE:

  • Operation Fortitude’s audacious distraction playbook
  • The modern attention-hijack toolkit (urgency, authority, AI personalization)
  • Fast-action defenses to keep your cognitive perimeter intact
  • ... and a few other fun items from the past week!
  • Listen now: turn the tables on the impostors, and guard the one resource every attacker wants first: your focus.


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    Anything you'd like me to cover in a future edition?

    Stay sharp,

    — Perry

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