A modern day snake oil salesman. A charlatan, preacher type (usually a fundamentalist, Protestant
Christian) who hawks her/his wares on television, promising miracles of a spiritual, or secular nature if the viewer would just fork over the cash. Think Peter Popoff’
s “Miracle Spring
Water,” or Jim Bakker’s “Buckets of Survival Food” for doomsday. These types think nothing of draining your grandma’s savings account while tooling around in a pink limo…think back to
Jan and Paul Crouch of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).