I read this with great sadness. In the culture of grift, the highest form of con is when you induce someone to do something they know is wrong, like a 419 scam where you convince the mark to impersonate a dead person in exchange for a fee that never materializes.
The rationalization is that whatever happens to the mark is their responsibility, as they decided to knowingly break the law.
Playing on someone's false feelings of betrayal is nowhere near this, and exposing them to the very real possibility of execution, just so you can make a few bucks?
I call that psychopathic. This woman is entirely without scruples, she does this and boasts of it when interviewed.
It doesn't bother me that much that she deceived this woman in her investigation. But the fact that she essentially identified this source in a magazine article is pretty horrifying IMO.
The rationalization is that whatever happens to the mark is their responsibility, as they decided to knowingly break the law.
Playing on someone's false feelings of betrayal is nowhere near this, and exposing them to the very real possibility of execution, just so you can make a few bucks?
I call that psychopathic. This woman is entirely without scruples, she does this and boasts of it when interviewed.