The Greatest Fraud the World Has Ever Known is all about self deception. When most people think of fraud, they think of investing fraud, white collar crime, and maybe financial planning fraud and to define self deception is to simply state that it is any form of deceit against a person by the same person. But self deception goes to the heart of leadership - leadership and self deception - and how it affects the way we live our lives. The author believes that some people are just plain evil and then backs up this premise with sound research. He then goes on to describe the fraud of fraud or the causes of self-deception. Most people practice self deception due to fallacious reasoning. The author calls this "self deception theory" and stems from self deception psychology or the psychology of lying and deception. It doesn't take the reader very long to discover that the Greatest Fraud the World Has Ever Know is YOU