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).