Stephen Bonds has written a wonderful article on how to identify schemers. You know the type. Schemers view all humans as pawns in their elaborate game of success-money-power. They communicate at you with manipulative rhetoric to be perceived as being “in-charge”. They will mix reality with fiction to cloud your judgment. Your only defense against them is to try to handle them the way that try to handle you. My best advice is to just agree with what they say and do the opposite.