Wright slowly winds his way through the streets of Harlem and New Jersey in a beautiful overcoat, like a snake who's alluring skin seduces its victims into believing that they won't die if they trust it.
The scams centre on fraudsters tricking victims into believing they are speaking to a police officer or bank staff, or a representative of another trusted organisation, such as a computer company.
The callers duped victims into believing that they owed money to the U.S. government and would be arrested or deported if they did not pay immediately.
Like Kilgrave, abusers will often "gaslight" (or confuse) the victim into believing the past incorrectly.
Then they manipulate the victim into believing that keeping tabs on them, excessive texting, wanting to spend more and more time alone with them and discouraging independence is really about being 'deeply in love.' What might be initially interpreted as 'jealousy' very quickly becomes an abusive attempt to control, create self-doubt, and chip away at self-worth and self-confidence".
Victims are manipulated into believing something bad will happen to them unless they remit cash," said Sergeant Dave Costantini in a press release.
Victims are then shamed into believing they are "sluts".
The report also took into account the emotional levy placed on families of murder victims who are deluded into believing that justice will be delivered within their lifetimes.
Working with his MI5 handler, Tomás Harris, Pujol concocted another elaborate hoax, this time with his wife as the victim: she was tricked into believing he had been imprisoned as a consequence of her threats, and was taken to visit him at MI5's wartime interrogation centre, Camp 020.
The summing up is unavailable, but Judge Dutton's sympathies are evident in his sentencing remarks, in which he states the victim "was successfully deceived into believing this was full sexual intercourse with a man and nothing less".
Don't be the whiny wannabe professional victim who deludes him/herself into believing that she/he is persecuted by everybody, but accept it to yourself when people are attacking you and acknowledge the true scale on which it is happening.
