The Con

Author : Luke Healy
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466470

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The Con Artists by Luke Healy Pdf

This is going to be Frank’s year. He’s going to do it all: find love, become a famous comedian, and responsibly parent his plants. But then, Giorgio gets hit by a bus. Self-assured and utterly entitled, Giorgio has always seemed like “Frank, but better.” Moving in with and caring for his estranged childhood friend quickly starts to chip away at Frank’s sense of self, as well as Giogio’s carefully curated online persona. Is Giorgio’s penchant for overindulgence truly aspirational? Or is it ultimately a red flag? The further Frank is pulled into Giorgio’s orbit, the quicker his existential dread blooms. Expectation and reality soon collide in a singular tale about trust and confidence. Luke Healy’s playful, hilarious third graphic novel uses crisp lines and physical comedy to portray an uneasy friendship between two young men on the cusp of adulting. Snippets from Frank’s middling stand-up routines are punctuated by the subtle farce of Healy’s mise-en-scène and the lively, at times scathingly pointed, banter of old friends. The Con Artists is a stylish character study that asks the question of who fools who once everyone is off-camera.

Author : James Munton,Jelita McLeod
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442207318

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The Con by James Munton,Jelita McLeod Pdf

Steering clear of cons requires a heightened awareness and healthy skepticism, along with an appreciation for just how widespread scams are. The Con: How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself is an insightful, revealing look at scams, why they work, and how to avoid them. Through the use of personal narratives, the book teaches people to assess and reject advances, encounters, and approaches that do not meet sufficient standards of credibility.

Author : James Munton,Jelita McLeod
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442207332

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The Con by James Munton,Jelita McLeod Pdf

No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are 40 times more likely to be defrauded than to have their cars stolen or their homes burgled. Con artists ruin people financially and emotionally, leaving in their wake a trail of destruction, broken hearts, and deflated dreams. The first step to combating fraud is to understand it. What do scams look like? Why are they effective? The next step is to take action. How can we protect ourselves and our families? The Con: How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself informs and engages with accessible stories of ordinary people from all walks of life thrown into unexpected and disorienting circumstances. The book goes behind the scenes of real-world cons to examine the logistics and psychology that enable scams to succeed. The goal is to help people understand and recognize deception, and in the same way that they avoid other potentially dangerous situations, take a detour. Once readers have gained a clear idea of what scams look and sound

Author : R. Paul Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781493016112

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The Art of the Con by R. Paul Wilson Pdf

A sucker is still born every minute. In this modern and interconnected world, con-men are lurking everywhere – it’s never been easier for them to dupe us, take from us, and infiltrate our lives. One of the world’s leading and celebrated experts on con-games takes the reader through the history of cons, how they’ve been updated to the modern age, how they work, how to spot them, and how to protect yourself from being the victim of one. R. Paul Wilson is a con-man who works for the other side – our side. He has spent a lifetime learning, performing, studying, and teaching about the ins and outs of the con world in order to open up our eyes to the dangers lurking about us – and to show us how not to get taken. Paul has never made a living as a con-man, profiting off of marks – he has used his expertise throughout his life to help people avoid cons. In this fascinating book, Paul takes the reader through the history and developments of the con game, what elements from the past are based on basic human psychology and have stood the test of time, what has been updated for the modern era and how it’s getting used in the computer age, the structure of how these cons work, and – most importantly - how to recognize one, protect yourself and your loved ones, and avoid becoming just another sucker.

Author : Brad Guigar
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:DEC148525

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Tales From The Con: Year Two by Brad Guigar Pdf

TALES FROM THE CON: YEAR 2, the irreverent webcomic that has appeared on the Emerald City Comicon website since 2012, takes another look at the idiosyncracies of life at comic conventions with Year 2. Written by Eisner-nominee BRAD GUIGAR (HOW TO MAKE WEBCOMICS, Evil Inc.) and illustrated by CHRIS GIARRUSSO (G-MAN, Mini Marvels). Fanboys, fangirls, cosplayers, retailers, volunteers, and pros repeatedly collide on the convention floor (and beyond) to prove that comic conventions are one part festival, two parts group therapy.

Author : Albert O. Wilkat, Retired PE
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781514427491

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The Professor and the Con by Albert O. Wilkat, Retired PE Pdf

The Professor and the Con is a novel set in 1968, the election year and the college protests of the Viet Nam war. . A new college teacher is a pretty young woman starting her teaching career to be a Professor like her father. A recently released convict is a former returned decorated Viet Nam veteran having completed a prison term for a charge for which he claims innocence. He is hired by the University as a Maintenance man. Their paths cross amid the college protests over the Viet Nam war... She has reservations about associating with a Maintenance employee. While he is afraid she will discover that he is an ex-convict and there might be talk about a Professor and a Con..

Author : Mary Frame
Publisher : Mary Frame
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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You're the Con That I Want: Book Three Castle Cove Mystery Small Town Cozy Romance by Mary Frame Pdf

Cannot be read as a standalone! Book one is Fake it to the Limit, book two is Too Much Crime on My Hands. This is the third and final book in the Castle Cove Mystery Series. Charlotte, a.k.a. Ruby the town psychic, has a good thing going in Castle Cove. Her baby sister Paige is blossoming under their newfound stability. Charlotte is becoming a pillar in the quirky beachside community, thanks to her new friends and neighbors. And Deputy Jared has finally wedged himself into her life with a heart big enough to make them a real family. But Charlotte should have known better than to let a con run too long. Her parents have found them, and the inveterate con artists won’t let Paige out of their clutches unless Charlotte helps them rob the innocent people of Castle Cove blind—including Jared. As the clock ticks down to meet the parents’ demands, it gets harder and harder to prevent her exposure as the fraud she is. But Charlotte won’t stop until she finds a way to protect everyone. At any cost. Even if it means losing everything.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Bankers
ISBN : UVA:X030832788

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The Con P. Curran Directory of Bankers & Attorneys Throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico & Alaska ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony M. Amore
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466879119

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The Art of the Con by Anthony M. Amore Pdf

Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate. Anthony M. Amore's The Art of the Con tells the stories of some of history's most notorious yet untold cons. They involve stolen art hidden for decades; elaborate ruses that involve the Nazis and allegedly plundered art; the theft of a conceptual prototype from a well-known artist by his assistant to be used later to create copies; the use of online and television auction sites to scam buyers out of millions; and other confidence scams incredible not only for their boldness but more so because they actually worked. Using interviews and newly released court documents, The Art of the Con will also take the reader into the investigations that led to the capture of the con men, who oftentimes return back to the world of crime. For some, it's an irresistible urge because their innocent dupes all share something in common: they want to believe.

Author : Elizabeth Gordon
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781538382400

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Noah the Con Artist by Elizabeth Gordon Pdf

Noah is an artist. Ever since he learned to draw, people have been impressed by his remarkable skills. When there's an art contest at The Club, Noah is certain that he'll win the big prize, until he sees Milo's painting. Noah is scared. Everyone expects Noah to win the contest. If he loses, he believes he'll lose the one skill he's most proud of. Noah is determined to beat Milo, but at what cost? Is winning worth compromising his values?

Author : Terry Williams,Trevor B. Milton
Publisher : Studies in Transgression
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0231170831

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The Con Men by Terry Williams,Trevor B. Milton Pdf

A hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.

Author : Nate Hendley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610695862

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The Big Con by Nate Hendley Pdf

This book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an age of easy access to information. Covering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about "satanic" daycare operators in the 1980s, and recent Internet scams, this book provides a fascinating, fact-based look at infamous frauds across the centuries. Offering an engaging mix of history, sociology, and psychology, author Nate Hendley gives readers an appreciation of how prominent scams, cons, "confidence men," and hoaxes have impacted American society, past and present. Each entry details the scheme or hoax and the pertinent con artist/schemer involved, examining the sociological, cultural, political, and/or economic effect of the scams. Each topic is accompanied by a short bibliography of further reading selections. As the old saying goes, "There is a sucker born every minute"—and there has always been a keen-eyed swindler to take advantage of the situation. The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History explores this sordid underbelly of American civilization and invites readers to revel in the felonious experience.

Author : Lee Moller
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781525506802

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The God Con by Lee Moller Pdf

The crucifix is in! You can fool most of the people most of the time. In The God Con, Lee Moller, a life-long atheist and skeptic, looks at organized religion through the lens of the con. Organized religion has been selling an invisible product, that it never has to deliver, for thousands of years. It has given us bigotry, rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and bloodshed beyond imagining. And its acolytes have, in turn, given organized religion power over their bank accounts, their reproduction, and their very “souls”.

Author : Jd Deluzio
Publisher : Brain Lag
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1928011411

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The Con by Jd Deluzio Pdf

Love, destiny, and an alien presence collide at a science fiction convention sharing hotel space with a gathering of the Jane Austen Society. Follow the trials of an older SF fan, a Klingon and his brother, high school geek girls, their basketball star friend, and a Janeite looking for a change of pace.

Author : Shana Silver
Publisher : Swoon Reads
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250266804

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The Con Code by Shana Silver Pdf

A teen forger and thief forms a criminal crew from her high school friends (and crush) to perform a series of heists leading to the location of her missing mother in this action-packed contemporary YA novel, The Con Code. By day, seventeen-year-old Fiona Spangler runs small cons for her ritzy prep-school classmates: getting them out of tests and forging fake hall passes. But by night, Fiona joins her dad on riskier heists: stealing back the clue-filled forgeries her mom scattered across the country before she disappeared. Fiona desperately hopes that her mother will be waiting at the end of the scavenger hunt she left behind. And they are SO close. Just three more heists remain, but then disaster strikes when Fiona’s dad is captured by the FBI. Desperate to finish the job and save what’s left of her family, Fiona assembles of crew of teen criminals: a master of disguise who can transform into anyone, a talented hacker who only communicates in glares, and a rival con artist with a vendetta against—and possible crush on—Fiona. All they have to do is perform three nearly impossible heists, solve her mother’s incredibly complex clues, and evade the FBI. Easy, right? Praise for Shana Silver's Mind Games: “An edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep readers guessing. The complex plot, the occasional twists, and the quick pacing make this a difficult read to put down.” —School Library Journal "It's a YA Michael Crichton novel, minus the 100-page master class intro on quantum mechanics, biotech, and string theory...Mind Games is an absolute blast. If you are a fan of Memento or Strange Days, this one's definitely for you!" —NPR