'To be chosen is to see oneself as an exceptional creation. It entails blindness to otherness.
It is a form of impunity. To be chosen
often involves a near or total lack of empathy. Such lack is often defined in terms of
acute narcissism and psychopathy.'

The victims of this fraud were tricked into believing that they were being contacted by France’s Defence Minister who was requesting money to help pay ransom for journalists held hostage by Islamists in the Middle East. Since France officially does not pay ransom to terrorists, the fake minster assured the victims that payments could not be traced and asked for the funds to be wired to a bank in China.