Derren Brown - "Paying with Paper"

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this man walks around with fake money and tricks people into taking it as real cash. He will tell a story and towards the end he says things like "I was a bit intimidated about using the Subway system here. But my friend just said take it, it’s fine, it’s fine. "

when he is saying " take it, it’s fine, it’s fine. " during any story he pays them with the fake cash getting them confused with the story and paying at the same time so they can end up taking the fake cash.

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It’s a combination of a lot of different things. He uses NLP techniques here, building rapport, anchoring, pattern break, etc. The only thing is, only about 10% of people are this susceptible to these techniques and respond so well to suggestions given.