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They do things like this all the time.

Don’t hold out! So what were his techniques?

One of them was a young guy in his 20’s. The first day I was there, he rounded up some of us newbies and said, “Watch how it’s done.” Then he sat down, with his girlfriend on his lap, and starting calling. In 30 minutes time, he’d made 10-12 calls and made 2 or 3 sales — an amazing hit rate.

I know I made several bad jokes about this but I think there’s more going on here. People who work in professional jobs are given the benefit of the doubt all the time. We are taught such people are a priori ethical, intelligent, decent human beings who should be defered to and believed in without question. This idea is widespred in our society despite ample evidence to the contrary (see JT’s posts above). It does set up a dangerous situation. No person, by virtue of position should be accorded more respect as a human being than any other person, but we do this regularly. We do it based on income and position. Add to this learned deference the fact that the govt. is pushing a campaign at this time to get tested for colon cancer and it’s not impossible to see how this scam worked. We shouldn’t minimize people own decisions, (such as investing in Madoff’s ponzi scheme), still it’s important to understand what social and psychological factors enable such scams to proceed.

Actually I’m one to talk. The same thing happened to me three times last month. And he assured me the heavy breathing was because he was on his exercise bike …

As a man I felt particularly violated.

How do you know he didn’t identfy himself as Joe the Plumber, M.D., who was a friend of John McCain’s. Can you honestly say you would have been suspicious at that point?

But she wasn’t at all suspicious when she picked up the phone and a man said, “I’m a doctor calling to instruct you to perform a rectal examination on yourself. All ready to go? Great, let’s get started …”

I wish there was some video available, not of the exam, but of the expression on these people’s faces later when they finally put it together.

I’m surprised he didn’t call women up and tell them to send pictures/videos of themselves giving self breast exams so that he could tell them if they were doing it correctly or not!