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A few years ago I wrote a post about digital grifters, the new breed of confidence men made possible by the internet. It was one of those posts I enjoyed writing more than most people enjoyed reading. The best part about it was that everyone just assumed I had Theodore Beale in mind when I wrote it. In fact, I was thinking about Mike Cernovich as the archetype of this new confidence man.

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