Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The Return of the Hypno Thief

And we have another report of someone who supposedly got hypnotized and surrendered her money to a pair of con artists.

Student loses P10,000 to con artists by DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/02/2008

MANILA, Philippines--A pair of con artists sweet-talked a nursing student into parting with her tuition money Sunday morning while she was waiting for a passenger jeepney in Pasig City, the police said.

Joyce Ann Sanchez, 17, lost P10,000 in cash and two mobile phones to a man and a woman, in what the police described as a "budol budol" (hypnotism) scam, a report in the Pasig Police Station blotter said.

read the full report at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20081102-169832/Student-loses-P10000-to-con-artists

Fellow wanna-be profiler Tania, finally sets-up a blog and weighs on this so-called criminals with hypnotic powers. Read her entry at:
http://taniaarpa.blogspot.com/2008/11/con.html