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Scammer's Yard

Author : Jovan Scott Lewis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296436X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Scammer's Yard written by Jovan Scott Lewis and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor are young Black Jamaicans? In this innovative ethnography, Jovan Scott Lewis tells the story of Omar, Junior, and Dwayne. Young and poor, they strive to make a living in Montego Bay, where call centers and tourism are the two main industries in the struggling economy. Their experience of grinding poverty and drastically limited opportunity leads them to conclude that scamming is the best means of gaining wealth and advancement. Otherwise, they are doomed to live in “sufferation”—an inescapable poverty that breeds misery, frustration, and vexation. In the Jamaican lottery scam run by these men, targets are told they have qualified for a large loan or award if they pay taxes or transfer fees. When the fees are paid, the award never arrives, netting the scammers tens of thousands of U.S. dollars. Through interviews, historical sources, song lyrics, and court testimonies, Lewis examines how these scammers justify their deceit, discovering an ethical narrative that reformulates ideas of crime and transgression and their relationship to race, justice, and debt. Scammer’s Yard describes how these young men, seeking to overcome inequality and achieve autonomy, come to view crime as a form of liberation. Their logic raises unsettling questions about a world economy that relegates postcolonial populations to deprivation even while expecting them to follow the rules of capitalism that exacerbate their dispossession. In this groundbreaking account, Lewis asks whether true reparation for the legacy of colonialism is to be found only through radical—even criminal—means.

Elder Fraud Wars

Author : David Neil Kirkman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663971X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Elder Fraud Wars written by David Neil Kirkman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By recounting actual court cases, this book examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industry, the special vulnerabilities of those it targets, and the ease and frequency with which it obtains hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim. It also reveals successful strategies for combating that industry and the important contributions to that effort by concerned bankers, doctors, reporters and others in the private sector. The cases reveal an increasingly sophisticated global industry that targets each victim with a series of repeat "hits." This tactic--criminals call it "reloading"--sets the elder fraud industry apart from groups that defraud younger individuals. Twelve key age-related fraud vulnerabilities are illustrated in the cases. So, too, are the scammers' skills in mapping their target's unique combination of vulnerabilities and then tailoring their narratives to exploit each one. Most of the cases highlight actual victims, scam artists or fraud fighters. Their individual stories range from inspiring and sometimes comical to frustrating and deeply disturbing. Readers with aging parents, law enforcement officials, medical professionals, members of the financial industry and others who work with older adults will find it particularly useful.

Schemer [sic], Scammers, and Sweetheart Deals

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schemer [sic], Scammers, and Sweetheart Deals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Provenance

Author : Laney Salisbury
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101105003
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Provenance written by Laney Salisbury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections today Provenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a great con man and unforgettable villain, John Drewe, and his sometimes unwitting accomplices. Chief among those was the struggling artist John Myatt, a vulnerable single father who was manipulated by Drewe into becoming a prolific art forger. Once Myatt had painted the pieces, the real fraud began. Drewe managed to infiltrate the archives of the upper echelons of the British art world in order to fake the provenance of Myatt's forged pieces, hoping to irrevocably legitimize the fakes while effectively rewriting art history. The story stretches from London to Paris to New York, from tony Manhattan art galleries to the esteemed Giacometti and Dubuffet associations, to the archives at the Tate Gallery. This enormous swindle resulted in the introduction of at least two hundred forged paintings, some of them breathtakingly good and most of them selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many of these fakes are still out in the world, considered genuine and hung prominently in private houses, large galleries, and prestigious museums. And the sacred archives, undermined by John Drewe, remain tainted to this day. Provenance reads like a well-plotted thriller, filled with unforgettable characters and told at a breakneck pace. But this is most certainly not fiction; Provenance is the meticulously researched and captivating account of one of the greatest cons in the history of art forgery.

Scams!

Author : Andreas Schroeder
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550378528
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Scams! written by Andreas Schroeder and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories that explore some of the most outrageous swindlers and tricksters of all time. Scams! reveals 10 true tales of trickery that will mesmerize young readers. They will discover how the Germans planned to destroy the British economy during World War II by flooding the world with millions of fake British bank-notes. Scams! also includes: • The Tasady: Stone Age cavemen of the Philippines • The Shakespearean forgery of William Ireland • P.T. Barnum and his greatest show on earth • The creation of the Bibliotheca Phillipica • Le Grand Theresa • John Keely’s engine • Karl May’s extraordinary fiction Readers of any age will be enthralled by these stories of trickery exposed, where the strange twists and turns truly test the limits of credulity.

From Doing Meth Shards to Running Prison Yards

Author : Danny "Bulldog" Ratliff
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662486197
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book From Doing Meth Shards to Running Prison Yards written by Danny "Bulldog" Ratliff and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Doing Meth Shards to Running Prison Yards is an autobiography of an ordinary, average man from a ghost town in poverty-stricken eastern Kentucky known as Jenkins. It tells the true-life story of how moving to North Carolina to find work tragically ended up finding me addicted to meth and the treacherous and perilous life I lived for nearly a dozen years until the abundance of drug addiction fueled bad choices that finally led me to my consequences--my ultimate life-altering arrest. It continues with the tumultuous and cold-blooded ride our legal system drug me through because I would not snitch and I was poor, all the way to the 221-month sentence I received as a first-time offender, and finally, how the vestigial operations of the NCDPS (North Carolina Department of Public Safety) prison system funneled me into joining the BFG (Bound For Glory), an Aryan prison club or gang just so I could live the life I was sentenced to a little safer in a world unseen by society, a world saturated with (reverse) racism, a world where the White man is the minority, a world where nobody cares, a world where the truth about it is hidden from civilization.

Thai Stick

Author : Peter Maguire
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231161344
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Thai Stick written by Peter Maguire and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand’s capital, Krungtep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers: from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders leftover from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade. Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Conducting hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, the delivery, the voyage home, and the product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into one of the world’s most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers’ perspective.

The Wolf at the Door

Author : Michael Hackard
Publisher : Hackard Global Media
ISBN 13 : 0999144618
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Wolf at the Door written by Michael Hackard and published by Hackard Global Media. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Little Black Book of Scams

Author : Industry Canada
Publisher : Competition Bureau Canada
ISBN 13 : 1100232400
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Little Black Book of Scams written by Industry Canada and published by Competition Bureau Canada. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.

The Laughing Monsters

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709238
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Laughing Monsters written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.

Cyber Power

Author : Solange Ghernaouti-Helie
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466573058
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Cyber Power written by Solange Ghernaouti-Helie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on cybercrime are written by national security or political experts, and rarely propose an integrated and comprehensive approach to cybercrime, cyber-terrorism, cyber-war and cyber-security. This work develops approaches to crucial cyber-security issues that are non-political, non-partisan, and non-governmental. It informs readers throug

The Dark Web Scam

Author : Michael P. King
Publisher : Blurred Lines Press
ISBN 13 : 1952711010
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Web Scam written by Michael P. King and published by Blurred Lines Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “King’s smoothly executed and addictive series returns, offering cinematic action and a high body count.”—Kirkus Reviews How could a little murder-for-hire scam go so wrong? The Travelers and a computer hacker are operating a dark web con, taking cash from suckers who think they’re hiring contract killers. Easy money. And no one to complain to the police. But when an actual killer comes after them, they’re on the hunt for payback. Who sent the assassin who killed their partner? And why is he stalking a newspaper reporter? Once the Travelers figure out who they’re up against, they set a plan in motion to rob him and take revenge, but as the cat-and-mouse game progresses, and the police get involved, the Travelers find they’re moving through a quagmire of drugs, sex trafficking, and greed where any misstep could lead to the morgue. The Dark Web Scam is a hard-charging crime thriller. If you like criminal machinations, fast-paced action, and devious plot twists, you’ll love the ninth novel in the Travelers series. Buy now to start reading this addictive thriller. The Travelers crime thrillers contain profanity, violence, and sexual situations typical of the genre and similar to R rated movies.

This Present Darkness

Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019049431X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book This Present Darkness written by Stephen Ellis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.

Boat Building and Boat Yards of Long Island: A Tribute to Tradition

Author : Nancy Solomon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467145211
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Boat Building and Boat Yards of Long Island: A Tribute to Tradition written by Nancy Solomon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the North Shore to the South Shore and out to the East End, Long Island is home to a nationally recognized and historic boat building industry. The Steiger Craft boats of Bellport are a local household name, trusted for their ability to navigate the shallow bay waters of the South Shore. Freeport legend Al Grover sold boats around the world for generations, built Verity skiffs for gas-conscious consumers in the 1980s and holds the Guinness World Record for the first outboard motorboat crossing of the Atlantic. The Hanff and Clarke boat yards in Greenport are more than just world-class boat builders--at more than 150 years old, they are historic landmarks. Author and folklorist Nancy Solomon shares the history and stories behind Long Island's traditional boat yards and boat builders.

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437929591
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups written by Mark S. Hamm and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

Scammers

Author : SLMN
Publisher : Kingston Imperial
ISBN 13 : 1734892587
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Scammers written by SLMN and published by Kingston Imperial. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream big. Score bigger. That’s their credo. "Bloodthirsty and thrumming" - Kirkus Reviews on Gods & Gangsters 2 Jordan is caught up in a world she doesn't understand; a world of people who are all on the make, looking for the scam that will make them rich. Dream big. Score bigger. That’s their credo. The trouble is, she doesn't even know who she is and finding out might just be the death of her...

The Migrant's Paradox

Author : Suzanne M. Hall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452965005
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Migrant's Paradox written by Suzanne M. Hall and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street livelihoods in the urban margins. Hall locates The Migrant’s Paradox on streets in the far-flung parts of de-industrialized peripheries, where jobs are hard to come by and the impacts of historic state underinvestment are deeply felt. Drawing on hundreds of in-person interviews on streets in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, London, and Manchester, Hall brings together histories of colonization with current forms of coloniality. Her six-year project spans the combined impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, austerity governance, punitive immigration laws and the Brexit Referendum, and processes of state-sanctioned regeneration. She incorporates the spaces of shops, conference halls, and planning offices to capture how official border talk overlaps with everyday formations of work and belonging on the street. Original and ambitious, Hall’s work complicates understandings of migrants, demonstrating how migrant journeys and claims to space illuminate the relations between global displacement and urban emplacement. In articulating “a citizenship of the edge” as an adaptive and audacious mode of belonging, she shows how sovereignty and inequality are maintained and refuted.