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The invisible island
While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
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The counterfeit wife a Revolutionary War mystery
\"Philadelphia, June 1780. George Washington's two least likely spies return, masquerading as husband and wife as they search for traitors in Philadelphia. Months have passed since young widow Becca Parcell and former printer Daniel Alloway foiled a plot that threatened the new nation. But independence is still a distant dream, and General Washington can't afford more unrest, not with food prices rising daily and the value of money falling just as fast. At the General's request, Becca and Daniel travel to Philadelphia to track down traitors who are flooding the city with counterfeit money. Searching for clues, Becca befriends the wealthiest women in town, the members of the Ladies Association of Philadelphia, while Daniel seeks information from the city's printers. But their straightforward mission quickly grows personal and deadly as a half-remembered woman from Becca's childhood is arrested for murdering one of the suspected counterfeiters. With time running out-and their faux marriage breaking apart-Becca and Daniel find themselves searching for a hate-driven villain who's ready to kill again.\"
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A Strategic Approach Using Governance, Risk and Compliance Model to Deal With Online Counterfeit Market
One major aspect that attracts Indian online retail customer is buying products at ease & convenience at competitive prices. The India e-commerce growth story has so far been remarkable. The starts ups are being immensely funded by angel investor and venture capitalists and the valuation game is keeping them lucrative. Although the growth of many e-commerce in the past five to six years have been impressive, sale of counterfeit products and the online counterfeit market is a chronic problem for many industries, brands and also to the government. In this paper the authors have analyzed the factors that influence online counterfeit market to flourish, the present policies, framework and strategies available to deal with this threat. This paper also attempts to understand using a survey, if youngsters in the age group of 20 to 30 years, who shop online are aware of the online counterfeit market and the existing solution to deal with it. An attempt has been made to propose strategies to deal with the online counterfeit market. The authors have given a terminology for online counterfeit market and also have created a Governance Risk Compliance model at al level to deal with online counterfeiting.
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CRIME DOES NOT PAY? UNA BANDA DE ESTAFADORES CON EPICENTRO EN MÉXICO, 1918-1930
Este artículo estudia una banda especializada en falsificar cheques, giros y acciones. Su principal interés es conocer perfiles sociales y prácticas disruptivas que contrastan con los sujetos criminales usualmente retratados por la historiografía. Entre otros contrastes, tendieron a desplegar estilos de vida pretenciosos y gozaron de impunidad. Este fenómeno estuvo relacionado con redes de profesionistas en falsificar y estafar. En tal sentido, este texto apuesta por poner en perspectiva histórica organizaciones criminales locales, pero con proyección transfronteriza e intentos de internacionalizarse. En esencia, sus técnicas y actividades dependieron de la extensión del capitalismo financiero.
This article studies a gang specialized in counterfeiting checks, money orders and shares. Its main purpose is to understand social profiles and disruptive practices that contrast with the criminal subject usually portrayed by historiography. Within other contrasts, they used to display pretentious lifestyles in impunity. This phenomenon was linked to networks of professional counterfeiters and scammers. Thus, this article aims to set local criminal organizations in historical perspective as well as in its cross-border projection and attempts to internationalize. Essentially, those activities and techniques depended on the extension of financial capitalism.
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Legal and Illegal Moneymaking: Colonial American Counterfeiters and the Novelization of Eighteenth-Century Crime Literature
According to Daniel E. Williams, Daniel A. Cohen, and others who have studied the subject, as crime literature divorced itself from its original theological context around the turn of the eighteenth century, it began to feature criminals who were no longer conceived as archetypal sinners engaged in allegorized spiritual struggles with their souls wavering between damnation and salvation, but rather as distinct personalities defined by unique psychologies, shaped by historical circumstances, and embroiled in conflicts that hinged on deference to or defiance of various forms of worldly authority. For the most part, this generic shiftfrom an allegorical to a novelistic treatment of criminal behavior has been attributed to broader cultural transformations occurring at the time: the decline of clerical influence over the printing press; the rise of the modern newspaper after the expiration of the Licensing Act in 1695; the growth and diversification of the colonial readership; and most importantly, the secularizing influence of Enlightenment ideas, especially those that challenged the concept of natural depravity and instead located the origins of criminal behavior in psychological motivations and social conditions.\\n Does this mean we ought not consider his account an autobiography?
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