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Nobody’s fool: Why we get taken in and what we can do about it
Authors: Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris
Publisher: Basic Books (Hachette Book Group)
Pages: 374
Price: Rs 1,903
On May 24, 1971, Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala masterminded an audacious fraud. His target was Ved Prakash Malhotra, a cashier at the State Bank of India. Impersonating then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he asked for Rs 60 lakh to be delivered, adding that Malhotra should collect the receipt from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Too cowed to verify, Malhotra made the delivery, only to learn at the PMO that he had been duped. This
