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Anatomy of a con artist
\"Con artists are everywhere-your new boyfriend or girlfriend, your new neighbor or coworker, your new friend-and they don't outsmart you; they out-feel you to get their hands on your money. In Anatomy of a Con Artist, Walton lays out \"the tells\" based on hundreds of real-life cases he's investigated, including: Red Flag #1-A Stranger Offering Help: Someone new and overly helpful insinuates themselves into your life. Red Flag #3-Drama, Drama, Drama: Constant dramatic \"emergencies\" to pull you in. Red Flag #8-Beak Wetting: Faux generosity-gifts, money, or favors to bring your guard down. After being scammed out of nearly $100,000 by a devious con artist, Walton was turned away by police. Infuriated and armed with the investigative skills he'd gained from years as a TV reporter, Walton launched his own investigation and built a compelling criminal case authorities could not ignore. Walton got his con artist charged, prosecuted, and convicted, then devoted his life to helping other victims do the same. This book packs in all he has learned. Some con artists scheme for money, some for attention, some just for the thrill of lying. And if you think it can't happen to you, then you are exactly the kind of \"mark\" a professional con artist is looking for. With this insightful guide in your hands, you are far less likely to get conned and far more likely to spot these nefarious manipulators from a mile away-and cross the street when you see them coming\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Don't fall for it : a short history of financial scams
Learn financial and business lessons from some of the biggest frauds in history Why does financial fraud persist?History is full of sensational financial frauds and scams.Enron was forced to declare bankruptcy after allegations of massive accounting fraud, wiping out 78 billion in stock market value.
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The encyclopaedia of liars and deceivers
The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers is a compendium of fraudsters, deceivers, liars, fakers and cheats throughout history, from Ptolemy and Marco Polo to Hemingway and Einstein.
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Crypto wars : faked deaths, missing billions and industry disruption
\"Crypto is big news. You may be an existing user yourself or have friends that laud its promise of getting rich fast. Arm yourself with knowledge to come out on top in the crypto wars. If thousands of people can lose billions of dollars in OneCoin, masterminded by the now infamous Missing Cryptoqueen made famous by the BBC's podcast series and called 'one of the biggest scams in history' by The Times, what makes you think your money is safe? OneCoin isn't alone. Crypto Wars reveals some of the most shocking scams affected millions of innocent people all around the world with everything from religious leaders to celebrities involved. In this book, you get exclusive access to the back story of the most extreme Ponzi schemes, the most bizarre hoaxes and brutal exit strategies from some of the biggest charlatans of crypto.Crypto expert and educator, Erica Stanford, will show you how market-wide manipulation schemes, unregulated processes and a new collection of technologies that are often misunderstood, have been exploited to create the wild west of crypto, run by some less than reputable characters. From OneCoin to PonziCoin to Trumpcoin and everything in between, Crypto Wars uncovers the scandals, unpicks the system behind them and allows you to better understand a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize banking and our world for the better\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Devil's Game
The first book-length study of one of the Civil War's
most outlandish and mysterious characters
Devil's Game traces the amazing career of Charles A.
Dunham, Civil War spy, forger, journalist, and master of dirty
tricks. Writing for a variety of New York papers under alternate
names, Dunham routinely faked stories, created new identities, and
later boldly cast himself to play those roles. He achieved his
greatest infamy when he was called to testify in Washington
concerning Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Many parts of Dunham's
career remain shadowy, but Cumming offers the first detailed tour
of Dunham's convoluted, high-stakes, international deceits,
including his effort to sell Lincoln on plans for a raid to capture
Jefferson Davis.
Exhaustively researched and unprecedented in depth, this
carefully crafted assessment of Dunham's motives, personality, and
the complex effects of his schemes changes assumptions about covert
operations during the Civil War.
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Nobody's fool : why we get taken in and what we can do about it
\"From phishing scams to pyramid schemes, our world is filled with people who want to fool us. In Nobody's Fool, expert psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris break down the science behind deception to pull back the curtain on how we can all avoid being scammed-or even scam the scammers in return. Simons and Chabris identify ten specific features of our psychology that make us vulnerable to being tricked, from our innate tendency to treat all new information-not to mention anything that seems familiar or consistent!-as though it were true, to our failure to consider the important information that we're not receiving, to our tendency to be wary of randomness when in fact it's a sign of authenticity. They explain why all of us are fooled some of the time - whether it's by magicians, marketers, psychics, conspiracy theories, Internet bots, con artists, fraudulent scientists, or even ourselves. Weaving together entertaining stories with scientific research, Simons and Chabris show how Bernie Madoff pulled off his Ponzi scheme; why as much as half the art in leading museums is fake; why every piece of satire reaches people who take it seriously; and the one simple trick to better negotiation that we're all ignoring (yes, it's a genuine tip). They investigate everything from John Podesta giving his emails to Russian hackers to Andre Agassi's ability to read Boris Becker's mind-not to mention, how to tell if someone is lying about inventing cold fusion (even if you know nothing about physics), or if they are forging art (even if you can't tell Monet from Manet). Simons and Chabris put those principles to work, providing concrete ways that readers can build up their resistance to deception and revealing the crucial questions we should ask even before something starts to look suspicious\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fighting Back Against Scams
In 2022, the top scam types reported to the Committee shared many similarities to those reported by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): imposter scams and prizes, sweepstakes, and lottery scams are both cited as some of the top reported categories. Though many of the same types of scams present themselves year after year, the methods through which scammers contact victims have diversified-Artificial Intelligence (AI) and social media now play a prominent role. Scammers are also using new payment methods, making losses difficult to trace. Gift cards are the main payment method used by scammers to request and steal money from older adults. In 2021, 27 percent of adults 60 and older who lost money paid a scammer using a gift card or a reloadable card. Peer-to-peer payment apps, like Zelle, Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal, are also increasingly used by scammers.
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The vanishing of the Mona Lisa : a novel
A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who drew on his artistic mastery in order to become one of the world's most notorious art thieves.
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Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts
The ultimate collection of Australia's craziest cons and mad schemes from a master storyteller.
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