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The Set Up:
- Cardboard box on a busy street
- The dealer shuffles 3 cards
- The onlooker bets the position
The Lure:
- Someone (the shill) always seems to be winning
- The lookout signals the approach of cops
- The roper seeks out marks
- The muscle man takes care of complainers
The Sting
- The mark is persuaded to join the game: he never wins
From the charming and seductive hustler to the cyberhack who can truly vanish without a trace, The Con Artists Handbook exposes all the tricks of the trade with a revealing look at:
- Why the mark never sings
- Anatomy of 29 scams from classics like the Pigeon Drop to the Information Age cons like credit card cloning
- Scammer Hall of Fame with profiles of the most notorious and intriguing con men.
The hand is quicker than the eye. Get wise to the con.
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More like an extended magazine article than a book, but nethertheless, if you are new to the subject of scams then this would be an entertaining, but brief, read.
1) Not enough pages.
2) Needs to say more about each con.
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