This Is Your FBI: The Fraudulent Healer

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presenters transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Jules Fenn, its title, The Fraudulent Healer. Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation deals with a very shrewd and carefully planned confidence game.

Bear in mind that confidence men and women are among the elite of the criminal world. Many of them are excellent amateur psychologists. They play expertly on the heartstrings of their victims by appealing to one of two normal human desires.

The first is the natural need of lonely people for friendship and affection. The second basis of many confidence rackets is greed. The victim is lured on by the prospect of making easy money. Tonight's case has been chosen for dramatization for a very simple reason.

The more you, the public, become familiar with the techniques employed by this type of crook, the better you will be prepared to protect yourself against them. Tonight's FBI file opens on a lush green hillside, some 30 miles from a large western city.