Con artists are individuals who manipulate, deceive, and exploit others for their own personal gain. Two alluring figures that demonstrate this are Tania Head, the 9/11 survivor, and Amanda Riley. These con artists have captivated the public with heart wrenching stories, falsifying the trust of others with their audacious schemes. This essay will examine the deceptions by Tania Head and Amanda Riley and what made their schemes successful. Tania Head was an alleged survivor of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. In her story, she describes the horrid details and challenges she faced to save lives and her own during the collapse of the South Tower. Her story has captivated the hearts of many, but mainly the 9/11 survivors, who felt they may have …show more content…
A spokeswoman at the Merrill Lynch & Company has no record of Tania Head being employed as Head claimed she did. “A spokeswoman for Merrill Lynch & Company, where she told people she worked at the time of the terror attack, said the company had no record of employing a Tania Head (Dunlap and Kovaleski)”. This statement has sparked many questions about her story and has led people to analyze her story to find the truth. Furthermore, there have been many more instances where the Head’s statements were questionable. In an interview, Head shares an interaction she had in the South Tower, where a man has asked her to return his wedding ring to his wife as the building succumbs to its fate. People are pondering, who are the identities of the people she met in the morning hours of 9/11 or what is the name of the hospital she was treated in? In the New York Times article, “And few people, it seems, who embraced the gripping immediacy and pain of her account ever asked the name of the man whose ring she had returned, or that of the hospital where she was treated, or the identities of the people she met with in the south tower on the morning of 9/1(Dunlap and