TOKYO -- Three decades on from the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo subways perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo, techniques used by the cult to recruit and manipulate followers remain in use, updated for the social media age.
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Aum's cult tactics echo in scams 30 years after Tokyo sarin attack
Online swindlers, multi-level marketing schemes use similar mind-control methods
Aum Shinrikyo members engage in meditation at the cult's headquarters in March 1995, the same month it launched a deadly attack on Tokyo's subway system. © Kyodo
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