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1) The scammer
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2025.
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Jordyn Monroe is ready to kill it in prelaw at a prestigious, historically Black university in Washington, D.C., but when her roommate's ex-convict brother moves into their dorm, she senses something sinister beneath his friendly advice.
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From the dusty roads of a rural Jamaican village to the confines of a prison cell, Kemar the Scammer tells the powerful journey of Kemar Powell, who traded innocence for ambition. Enticed by quick money, his path of deception shattered his family's trust and led to prison. Yet, prison marked the start of his transformation. Guided by a chaplain and driven by remorse, Kemar found faith and a new purpose: helping others avoid his mistakes. Emerging...
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The Scammer's Mindset
Understanding the mindset of a scammer is crucial for anyone looking to master the art of deception. In this subchapter, we delve into the intricate workings of a scammer's mind, providing insight into their motivations, strategies, and psychological tactics. Whether you're an online dating scammer, investment fraud scammer, tech support scammer, or any other type of scammer, grasping the fundamental principles discussed...
4) Guidebook for Your Digital World: How To Avoid the Scammers and Pickpockets on Your Digital Journey
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You were taught how to stay safe in the real world. You know where to park your car at night. You know when a stranger at a bar makes you uncomfortable.
Why don't we do the same for the digital world?
Chris Dailey is a former personal safety instructor who made a career shift into the digital world and went looking for the same level of training there that he regularly taught in personal safety classes. When he couldn't find it, he decided to write...
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Each year Americans lose billions of dollars to fraudulent activity. The Madoffs Among Us shows you in graphic detail why and how people fall prey. Most important, it shows you how to easily identify the people who perpetrate these crimes and avoid their deceitful practices. Why do smart people fall for these cons? What are today's most common scams? And how can you avoid becoming a victim? Many people abdicate their responsibility to participate...
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Welcome to this fascinating journey through the intricacies of cyberspace, where cunning individuals, commonly known as "scammers," engage in a delicate dance of deceit and manipulation. To fully understand this complex world, we will delve into the origins of the term "scammer" and unveil the backstage of their online operations.Welcome to this fascinating journey through the intricacies of cyberspace, where cunning individuals, commonly known as...
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"Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, 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 left over from the Vietnam...
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Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned...
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2025.
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xv, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
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“Some people play golf on the weekends,” Johnathan Walton says. “I hunt con artists.” 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...
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Statistics about identity theft from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are staggering. The FTC now says that as many as one in every eight adults and one in every four households has been victimized by identity thieves in the past five years. To make matters even worse, if you end up a victim of identity theft, it can take years to clean up the mess. The FTC defines identity theft as stealing personal information such as your name, credit card number,...
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From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age-and why we can't stop falling for them.
We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. Reviewers and...
12) Hype: how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet--and why we're following
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2021.
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347 pages ; 24 cm
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The former "Vice" journalist and producer of the Netflix documentary, "Fyre," presents a revelatory examination of the con-artists, grifters, and scammers of the digital age that outlines recommendations for protecting consumers.
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2024
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"'Magical thinking' can be broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: Think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency...
14) The fabulist: the lying, hustling, grifting, stealing, and very American legend of George Santos
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"America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians. ... Yet in 2022, a new player on the national scene outshone them all. George Anthony Devolder Santos--and his revolving door of pseudonyms--shed glaring new light on how far we'd all let our politics slide as his claimed resumé was shred to bits in the wake of a longshot run to office from New York's 3rd Congressional District. From Wall Street gigs to an amateur volleyball career, from embellished...
15) Cashing Feelings
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2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A wealthy young woman finds herself entangled with a charming scammer, but her loyal and resourceful chef and personal assistant try to thwart the scammer's plans.
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"After millions of people died during World War I and from the 1918 influenza pandemic, the popularity of spiritualism soared. Desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, the bereaved fell prey to extortion by fraudulent mediums and fortune-tellers. But magician Harry Houdini wasn't fooled. He recognized the scammers' methods as no more than conjurer tricks. Angered by the way people were exploited, Houdini set out to expose the ghost hoaxes....
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"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....
18) Lonely Hearts
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Kay's newest case is a heartbreaker!When Lawrence Lincoln wants to gift his life savings to help the sick granddaughter of Tricia Wellmore, a woman he met on a dating site, his friend and neighbor, Eloise, hires Kay to do a background check. Everything initially appears legitimate, but as Kay digs deeper, it's clear this internet match is far from perfect.Kay needs to use all her resources to find who the scammer is and bring them to justice before...
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Violet has a simple life, go to work, come home play a few games on her cell phone. Little does she know that answering a message is going to turn her world upside down.Rafi has been chasing an internet scammer for years when he gets called to a new case that parallels the scammers signature. He's about to be blindsided and his life will change after meeting Violet and trying to help her find the person that is trying to scam her. Little does he know...
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ONLINE DATING FRAUD IS THE LARGEST SCAM IN THE UNITED STATES. It affects men and women. The
author was a victim of online dating fraud, losing thousands of dollars to one individual in less than six
months. These scammers are professional in the business and seek women and men who are innocently
vulnerable. The book grabs your interest immediately as the author shares her story of how her early life
1and years to follow put her in a position...
