With his wealth, glamorous lifestyle and friends in high places, Jonathan Price probably seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for the women who fell for his charms, that’s exactly what he was. The serial conman posed as a rich ‘sugar daddy’ to trap a string of professional women and fleece them for tens of thousands of pounds....Notice how much attractive the one woman pictured is in comparison with the fat, older con man. The "terminal cancer" was a particularly nice touch; all three women no doubt assumed that they'd only have to grit their teeth and suffer his attentions for a year or so, after which time they'd be set for life.
He now faces jail after pleading guilty to fraud totalling £180,000 – leaving three women and their parents without their life savings. Price, from Darlington, told his unsuspecting targets that he had vast sums of money in offshore accounts and was suffering from terminal cancer. His victims included Davina Ward, 32, who runs a florist business in Bournemouth, and Sarah Giles, 39, who worked as a manager at a gun retailer in London. His third victim, a high-flying executive in her 30s who cannot be named, became his wife and was pregnant with his child when he was arrested last May.
It's also significant that all three women were relatively ambitious and successful. The more materialistic a woman is, the easier it is to play her without even trying. Intelligence is no defense, because the combination of high IQ and materialism only means that her rationalization hamster is going to be that much more capable of producing credible excuses for any perceived inconsistencies between the desired perception and the reality.
I was at a nightclub in Roppongi one night after a female friend had happened to stick a shiny woman's circular broach in my jacket lapel earlier that evening. I have no idea why she did that; alcohol was involved. I didn't care, I just left it there. Now, this right around the time that the Billionaire Boys Club was in the news due to the murder trial and the TV miniseries, so when a women in the club came up to me and asked what the thing in my lapel was, I said it was a BBC pin.
"BBC, like, in England?"
"No, Billionaire Boys Club. It's just this investment thing."
The response was like getting hit by a tidal wave of pretty young women. My two friends were just about dying with laughter, but they were top-flight wingmen; they took the ball and ran with it. Now, keep in mind that the Billionaire Boys Club was a) a notorious Ponzi scheme, b) defunct, and c) already exposed in every possible way by the mainstream media. No matter. It was something that these women had vaguely heard of as having something to do with fame and money, and it amounted to setting off some sort of nuclear tingle bomb.
Lesson: a man doesn't have to be rich for women to believe that he is a rich man and respond accordingly. Those who desperately want to believe something will believe everything that supports the desired story and ignore everything that contradicts it. And those who say a woman "is only attracted to a man for his wealth" are failing to recognize they are expressing a tautology, because women are very sexually attracted to wealth, or rather, the perception of it.
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Eww, Roppongi.
I'll try this again (wife has not been logging off and I fail to notice and end up posting under her name).
Understanding how women make decisions is key. Men weigh facts then decide accordingly. Women decide, then weigh perceived facts accordingly.
Deciding what to believe is similar.
What women believe is largely predetermined by what they want to believe. This is why they buy obvious bullshit from someone the perceive to be a social and/or sexual alpha, bc they want to believe and are a decision in search of justification.
This is also why they act suspicious towards obviously sincere betas, bc they want an excuse.to reject the exact thing they claim to want (after extorting expensive dates from him of course).
This is not right or wrong, it just is. That's what game is all about, living with what is instead of what should be.
Men weigh facts then decide accordingly.
Ah, Trust, you trust too well to male nature. Seldom do I meet with men who behave so rationally as you claim.
Indeed, why think you that so many are deceived as to the character of women, be they optimistic or pessimistic, but that "they want to believe and are a decision in search of justification"?
And, of course, Price told these women he was ex-SAS for that bad-ass appeal.
@ His Lordship said...
Ah, Trust, you trust too well to male nature. Seldom do I meet with men who behave so rationally as you claim.
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True, men are foolish when it comes to women. But their decision tends to follow the facts rather than precede them. I.e, he sees a hot girl and wants her. He doesn't find an ugly girl then look for an excuse to rationalize she is hot.
I didn't say men always make rational decisions, I simply state that they are more likely to weigh their facts before a decision than after. Female beauty renders lower status men brain dead too often, but the fact remains a man probably won't be swayed by obviously BS stories about wealth in terms of how hot he finds her.
Hmmmm....
Didn't someone once say that "the LOVE of money was the root of all kinds of evil"? Not money itself, but the LOVE of it. (Thanks Paul).
I.e, he sees a hot girl and wants her. He doesn't find an ugly girl then look for an excuse to rationalize she is hot.
Truly? Have you never heard of the fellows who inexplicably find an ugly woman attractive and then attempt to suppress this reaction, to conceal it from their cohort, and when discovered to justify it to said mocking cohort?
I didn't say men always make rational decisions, I simply state that they are more likely to weigh their facts before a decision than after.
Ah, I see. Perhaps then we might say that they, instead, become impervious to new facts once decided. This would be more consistent.
Female beauty renders lower status men brain dead too often, but the fact remains a man probably won't be swayed by obviously BS stories about wealth in terms of how hot he finds her.
Is not a woman's beauty her "wealth", in these times? And is not this "beauty" oft a cheat, a "BS story" contrived through paint and near-nudity? Do not your men know this?
What's that old saying? You can't con an honest man. More and more of these "I lost my life savings!" stories make me not feel guilty for the people. There are definitely a lot of soft cons where people just get screwed but this "You'll make millions over a 10k investment" people rarely get any sympathy from me.
Big bank accounts are to women as big firm breasts are to men. Instant arousal.
The comments are hilarious and not very sympathetic to the women.
From the comments at the bottom of the article:
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So when a man dupes a woman out of her savings, he goes to prison, when a woman dupes a man out of his, thats life?
- Marcus , Northamptonshire, 28/3/2013 12:26
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HaHa! I'll bet!
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