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Author : Joseph R. Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780486231273
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Con Game and "Yellow Kid" Weil written by Joseph R. Weil and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. R. Weil
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849350213
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book "Yellow Kid" Weil written by J. R. Weil and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everywhere the Yellow Kid looks he sees money—too bad it's yours.
Author : Joseph Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781286619
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Con Game and "Yellow Kid" Weil written by Joseph Weil and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Author : W. T. Brannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844650111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Con Game and "Yellow Kid" Weil written by W. T. Brannon and published by . This book was released on 1983-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.R. Weil
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767917375
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Con Man written by J.R. Weil and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil, a man who could—and often did—pull off scams to outshine The Sting. In his long career as a confidence man, Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil swindled the public of more than eight million dollars and established the reputation for robbery and trickery. Always beating the police at their own game, “Yellow Kid” used phony oil deals, women, fixed races, and an endless list of other tricks to best an increasingly gullible public. One day, he was Dr. Henri Reuel, a noted geologist who traveled around and told his hosts that he was a representative for a big oil company—all the while draining them of the cash they gave him to “invest in fuel.” The next day, he was director of the Elysium Development Company, promising land to innocent believers while robbing them in recording and abstract fees. Or he was a chemist par excellence who had discovered how to copy dollar bills; promising to increase your fortune, he would multiply your bills—then take the booty once the police arrived. Originally published in 1948, here is Weil’s true and amazing story, with a smart and witty Afterword by none other than Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, who profiled “Yellow Kid” for The Reporter in 1956. It is undeniable proof that “Yellow Kid” was the con man par excellence—the virtuoso scam artist, bar none.
Author : David Maurer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030775572X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Big Con written by David Maurer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.” “Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A professor of linguistics who specialized in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers, who let him in on not simply their language but their folkways and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty, were “taken off” – i.e. cheated—of thousands upon thousands of dollars. The Big Con is a treasure trove of American lingo (the write, the rag, the payoff, ropers, shills, the cold poke, the convincer, to put on the send) and indelible characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie, Larry the Lug). It served as the source for the Oscar-winning film The Sting.
Author : J. R. Weil
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459617347
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Yellow Kid'' Weil written by J. R. Weil and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters. Welcome to the world of confidence men. You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity - $8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals, even a money-making machine, were all tools of the trade for the Kid and his associates: The Swede, The Butterine Kid, The Harmony Kid, Fats Levine, and others. Dozens of his schemes are laid out in full detail, told with wit and style. A fantastic, engaging read-you won't be able to put it down!Joseph Yellow Kid Weil was born in 1877 to German immigrant grocers in Chicago. He worked a number of odd jobs before executing a startling number of scams, primarily in the Chicago area but all over the world. He lived to be 101, and is said to have stolen over eight million dollars in total.I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.-Joseph Yellow Kid Weil.
Author : J.R. Weil
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767917375
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Con Man written by J.R. Weil and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil, a man who could—and often did—pull off scams to outshine The Sting. In his long career as a confidence man, Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil swindled the public of more than eight million dollars and established the reputation for robbery and trickery. Always beating the police at their own game, “Yellow Kid” used phony oil deals, women, fixed races, and an endless list of other tricks to best an increasingly gullible public. One day, he was Dr. Henri Reuel, a noted geologist who traveled around and told his hosts that he was a representative for a big oil company—all the while draining them of the cash they gave him to “invest in fuel.” The next day, he was director of the Elysium Development Company, promising land to innocent believers while robbing them in recording and abstract fees. Or he was a chemist par excellence who had discovered how to copy dollar bills; promising to increase your fortune, he would multiply your bills—then take the booty once the police arrived. Originally published in 1948, here is Weil’s true and amazing story, with a smart and witty Afterword by none other than Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, who profiled “Yellow Kid” for The Reporter in 1956. It is undeniable proof that “Yellow Kid” was the con man par excellence—the virtuoso scam artist, bar none.
Author : Jay Robert Nash
Publisher : M Evans & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780871311887
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Hustlers and Con Men written by Jay Robert Nash and published by M Evans & Company. This book was released on 1976-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anecdotal accounts of the most successful, most outrageous, and most expert scammers, flim-flammers, swindlers, and sharpers of the past two hundred years provide grist for Barnum's mill
Author : Amy Reading
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473597
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Mark Inside written by Amy Reading and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle—twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet’s ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the fascinating mechanics behind the big con—an artful performance targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature—and invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside.
Author : Yellow Kid Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book "Yellow Kid" Weil-con Man written by Yellow Kid Weil and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lionel S. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351527045
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Con Game written by Lionel S. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Madoff's financial fraud was global, an enormous amount of money was involved, and thousands of people and hundreds of institutions were swindled. Madoff's con game was a Ponzi scheme—an investment that pays returns to early investors from money acquired from subsequent investors.This case study of the Madoff scheme looks at the effects of his crimes on the victims. Elements from a theoretical framework put forward by Erving Goffman provide a perspective for understanding the development and the aftermath of Madoff's con. For example, as Goffman would have put it, Madoff's marks were not cooled out. Many did not accept the fact that they were victims of a con game and publicly clamored for sympathy, restitution, and for public officials to share their perspective.Inside men, ropers, outside men, and victims are at the core of con games. Lionel S. Lewis emphasizes that it is important to understand a con game's characteristics so as to grasp how it operates. The Madoff fraud includes elements of a variety of con games. For a comprehensive study of this economic crime, the case study must be seen as part of the broader social system. Considerably more is known about the dynamics of con games than about Ponzi schemes, and this fact frames this book's approach. To better understand what Madoff did, who was central in keeping his scheme alive, whom he defrauded, and how they reacted, this work is as invaluable as it is illuminating.
Author : Erik Buck
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321591208
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Cocoa Design Patterns written by Erik Buck and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Next time some kid shows up at my door asking for a code review, this is the book that I am going to throw at him.” –Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., and author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X Unlocking the Secrets of Cocoa and Its Object-Oriented Frameworks Mac and iPhone developers are often overwhelmed by the breadth and sophistication of the Cocoa frameworks. Although Cocoa is indeed huge, once you understand the object-oriented patterns it uses, you’ll find it remarkably elegant, consistent, and simple. Cocoa Design Patterns begins with the mother of all patterns: the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, which is central to all Mac and iPhone development. Encouraged, and in some cases enforced by Apple’s tools, it’s important to have a firm grasp of MVC right from the start. The book’s midsection is a catalog of the essential design patterns you’ll encounter in Cocoa, including Fundamental patterns, such as enumerators, accessors, and two-stage creation Patterns that empower, such as singleton, delegates, and the responder chain Patterns that hide complexity, including bundles, class clusters, proxies and forwarding, and controllers And that’s not all of them! Cocoa Design Patterns painstakingly isolates 28 design patterns, accompanied with real-world examples and sample code you can apply to your applications today. The book wraps up with coverage of Core Data models, AppKit views, and a chapter on Bindings and Controllers. Cocoa Design Patterns clearly defines the problems each pattern solves with a foundation in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks and can be used by any Mac or iPhone developer.
Author : Insight Kids
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647227518
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Star Trek: Baby's First Klingon Words written by Insight Kids and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : W T. Brannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Yellow - Kid Weil - Con Man written by W T. Brannon and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin T. Biegelman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118235452
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Faces of Fraud written by Martin T. Biegelman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate tool for understanding, investigating and preventing fraud Fraud is an evil with a life of its own that leaves a financial, repetitional, and emotional toll on its victims. While monumental scandals, such as Enron, WorldCom, and Madoff's Ponzi scheme make the front pages, fraud is a daily occurrence impacting companies and individuals alike. Faces of Fraud reveals must-know characteristics of fraudsters and the skills needed to outwit them. Recognized Fraud Fighting Expert Martin Biegelman draws from his 40 years of experience fighting fraud to profile not only the key traits fraudsters share, but also the qualities fraud examiners must possess to be successful. Each chapter contains stories from actual cases that the author investigated Profiles the must-know characteristics of fraudsters and the skills you'll need to outwit them Reveals the traits of accomplished fraud examiners Explores the best practices in fraud detection, investigation and prevention to cultivate in order to maximize success Written by fraud fighting expert Martin T. Biegelman Although fraud will never be completely eradicated, there is much that can be done to reduce the number and size of frauds that take place in any organization. Boiling down the key lessons the author has culled from his long career, Faces of Fraud entertains and informs with stories from real cases the author investigated over his long career, and imparts useful tips you can start using right away in the fraud examination field.
Author : Joel Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760753453
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)
Download or read book The Scam Handbook written by Joel Levy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the charming and seductive hustler--an icon of 1920s film noir--to the cyber hack who can truly vanish without a trace, this book exposes all the tricks of the trade of a con artist.
