Exploring the Magnetic Allure of Female Con Artists
Exploring the Magnetic Allure of Female Con Artists Tori Telfer’s new book, “Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion,” examines unbelievable women that lied and cheated to get what they wanted — and why we can’t stop obsessing over them. Harper Perennial/Amber Hawkins In the late 1990s, Rose Marks, who claimed to be a psychic, established fortune-telling family businesses in New York and Florida. It was there that she lured clients with promises of a better life, assuring them that, if they took every piece of advice she offered them, she...