How to Run a Safety Scam

The safety industry is a hotbed for scams. With a naïve curriculum, simplistic Body of Knowledge, deontological ethic and a profound absence of critical thinking, what a place rake in off a scam. The latest one I was posted was this one: How to determine your ‘safety personality’. If you fall for this one then you are ripe for a scam.

Why is it that this industry resorts to this mythical simplistic and dangerous stuff? You know why.

There is no such thing as a ‘safety personality’ indeed, the use of such a phrase appeals to the naïve and demonstrates that those proposing such a thing know nothing about psychometrics or psychology. It’s like a mob I was once show who ran a scam diagnostic called safety DNA, devised by engineers! There are dozens of similar scams all guaranteeing the impossible for the gullible. Many guarantee zero, predictive capabilities and promises. The perfect language to run a scam in safety.

So, if you want to get in on a safety scam and make either some easy money or get access to personal data, try the following:

Find an industry with a poor level of education
Make sure the industry doesn’t teach people how to think critically
Ensure the industry is fixated on compliance and obedience
Ensure the industry has a simplistic ethic like ‘check your gut’ or believes in ‘common sense’
Make sure the industry resists complexity
Confirm the industry believes in naïve notions of psychology
Corroborate that the groups in the industry have good cash flow
Set up a sucker question that feeds blind expectation
Use language of the Justice Cult and gurus of the industry
Watch out for naïve beliefs and wishing the impossible

Then run your scam and watch the emails and suckers lining up.

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Dr Rob Long

Expert in Social Psychology, Principal & Trainer at Human Dymensions

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PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.