<story><title>Very Weird Solicitation Alert</title><url>https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2021/09/very-weird-solicitation-alert-monica.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Oooh I didn&amp;#x27;t know this had a name.  Family members have  fallen victim to this several times to con men that came into their churches and pretended to be &amp;quot;one of them&amp;quot; and had a special ponzi or pyramid scheme from God to share.  The churchgoers instantly let their guard down, what an easy con.  People in a church already have a tendency to believe in things.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>TLDR - it is implied that a convicted fraudster named Monica Main either coerced an old (and possibly feeble &amp;#x2F; demented) romance author (Judith McNaught) or stole her identity to fleece wannabe writers out of money. I applaud the author for digging this deep, what an odd scam. It is affinity fraud, except the group is struggling writers.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Affinity_fraud&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Affinity_fraud&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>Check out Stan Johnson of the &amp;quot;Prophecy Club&amp;quot; on YouTube and elsewhere. He&amp;#x27;s been riding various Evangelical trends since the nineties or even the eighties with promotional tie-ins to various enterprises, e.g. prepper food&amp;#x2F;technology, silver bullion, prophecy videos and conferences. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine he&amp;#x27;s making all that much these days and his hybrid physical&amp;#x2F;online seems small. He got the COVID-19 a couple of times and didn&amp;#x27;t bother to tell his still-meeting congregation about it until quite late.&lt;p&gt;He preys on the gullible ... but in some Black Swan event sort of way (e.g. extended regional power outage) his adherents may come out ahead for a short time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Very Weird Solicitation Alert</title><url>https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2021/09/very-weird-solicitation-alert-monica.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Oooh I didn&amp;#x27;t know this had a name.  Family members have  fallen victim to this several times to con men that came into their churches and pretended to be &amp;quot;one of them&amp;quot; and had a special ponzi or pyramid scheme from God to share.  The churchgoers instantly let their guard down, what an easy con.  People in a church already have a tendency to believe in things.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>TLDR - it is implied that a convicted fraudster named Monica Main either coerced an old (and possibly feeble &amp;#x2F; demented) romance author (Judith McNaught) or stole her identity to fleece wannabe writers out of money. I applaud the author for digging this deep, what an odd scam. It is affinity fraud, except the group is struggling writers.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Affinity_fraud&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Affinity_fraud&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly why many scam emails start off with some religious salutation. If that doesn&amp;#x27;t put you off you&amp;#x27;re worth investing some time in because you have self-identified as gullible mark.</text></comment>