A Pentagon adviser on information warfare told me that it could have been an attempted "semantic attack," in which the virus or worm is designed to fool its victim into thinking that its computer systems are functioning properly, when in fact they are not, and may not have been for some time.
He often deceived his victims, all women, into thinking that he was injured and in need of help before attacking them.
The Glasgow-based criminal, known as Fizzy, owned several luxury cars including a Bentley and a Lamborghini, paid for from the takings of a £3m-a-month fraud, which involved duping victims over the phone into thinking they were having a conversation with their bank.
Abuse victims are often brainwashed into thinking that their partner still loves them.
The narrator attends a support group for testicular cancer victims and, after fooling them into thinking that he is a fellow victim, finds an emotional release that relieves his insomnia.
A survivor of the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi has described how she smeared herself with the blood of a teenage victim to fool the militants into thinking she was dead.
But the murder of a Norwegian tourist shocks him into thinking about other victims and other acts of violence that might have been lost to history.
He stalked his victims dressed as a policeman, tricking them into thinking he was the help sent from the shore after the initial attack.
It was a blunt-force victory for the Arizona school superintendent, John Huppenthal, who has spent years crusading against ethnic-studies programs he claims are "brainwashing" children into thinking that Latinos have been victims of white oppression.
They said Friday that Mr. Parvaiz had confessed to having "contracted" with a friend to kill her and wound him, apparently in hopes of fooling investigators into thinking he, too, was a victim.
