There's a sucker born every minute
Subtitle: a revelation of audacious frauds, scams and cons--how to spot them, how to stop them
By: Jeffrey Robinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Perigee Book
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399535857
Subjects: Fraud; Fraud -- Prevention; Swindlers and swindling
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A two-way street crime; title: Footprints in the sand: knowing what to look for; title: Greed and benevolence; title: 4gullibility and fear; title: Identity theft; title: Smaller than a 2c phone call: cyberfraud; title: Genies in bottles: knowing whom to trust; title: Maybe this time: advance fee fraud; title: The Nigerian yahoo-yahoo boys; title: Snake oil; title: Defrauding seniors; title: Business fraud; title: The scams: what they are and how to stop them; title: The 39 steps: what you need to do to protect yourself from fraud.