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Kings Of Stings
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Kings Of Stings

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James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists.

Do you want to…Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda’s hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami?;;

In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow.;;

Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks- changing paper into banknotes, selling other people’s property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Country
Australia
Date
1 March 2011
Pages
336
ISBN
9780522858594

James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists.

Do you want to…Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda’s hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami?;;

In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow.;;

Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks- changing paper into banknotes, selling other people’s property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Country
Australia
Date
1 March 2011
Pages
336
ISBN
9780522858594