https://deceit.site/tag/deception-patterns Stories, patterns, and resources for people working out what happened to them. Tagged "deception-patterns". en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:51:52 GMT 60 https://deceit.site/essay/two-thousand-years-of-forgery https://deceit.site/essay/two-thousand-years-of-forgery Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In 1389 a bishop wrote to the pope about a cloth. Pierre d'Arcis had a burial shroud on display in his diocese at Lirey. Pilgrims were paying to see it. He told Clement VII that the cloth was a painting, that it had been "cunningly painted," and that the artist who made it had confessed. He named th… https://deceit.site/essay/architecture-of-religious-fraud https://deceit.site/essay/architecture-of-religious-fraud Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Peter Popoff had an earpiece. His wife fed him names, addresses, and medical conditions from backstage. He called it divine revelation. James Randi intercepted the radio signal and played it on Johnny Carson's show. The audience gasped. Popoff filed for bankruptcy. Then he came back. He is still sel…