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Be Amazed

Sneakiest Disguises People Used For The Best Reasons

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

They say, “never judge a book by its cover”. But even the best of us are prone to judging people based on their appearance, wealth, or societal status. Because of this, people sometimes hide these things, or even downright lie about them! So, from a secret millionaire who pretended to be poor to a cop who pretended to be a disabled homeless man, here are some people who received very different treatment once they disguised themselves, and the weird and wonderful reasons why they did so.




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0:00.0

They say never judge a book by its cover, but even the best of us are prone to judging people

0:05.5

based on their appearance, wealth, or societal status.

0:09.6

Because of this, people sometimes hide these things, or even downright lie about them.

0:15.2

So from a secret millionaire who pretended to be poor to a cop who pretended to be a disabled

0:20.2

homeless man, here are some people

0:22.1

who received very different treatment once they disguised themselves and the weird and wonderful

0:27.0

reasons why they did so. If you're talking to someone you've always be amazed.

0:46.5

If you're talking to someone you've only met online, there's always a risk that they're not quite who they appear to be.

0:52.1

But when Vietnamese woman Nguyen Vian Viann-Anne got talking online with a man she'd met through Facebook,

0:55.6

she could never have imagined what would happen next.

1:01.6

Like many of us, Nguyen had always dreamt of meeting the perfect person to share her life with.

1:06.4

Yet she'd stayed single through all of her college years, and wasn't for a lack of attention.

1:09.0

A whole ton of guys had tried to pursue her.

1:12.6

Even so, nobody felt right for whenynn. And so after graduating from college and securing herself a good job,

1:16.6

she was still no closer to getting the one thing she really wanted, a boyfriend.

1:22.6

But love comes around when you least expect it.

1:25.6

One ordinary day back in 2016, Nguyen was scrolling through Facebook

1:30.3

when she came across a picture of one of her favorite celebrities,

1:33.7

stood with another man she didn't recognize.

1:37.0

The stranger was tagged in the photo, so out of interest, Nguyen clicked through to his profile.

1:42.5

He just seemed like a normal guy.

1:45.7

Maybe he knew her idol and would be able to set her up to meet him. She excitedly messaged the man to ask,

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