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ROGER COOK'S GREATEST CONMEN
TRUE STORIES OF THE WORLD'S MOST OUTRAGEOUS SCAMS |
| By: |
Roger Cook, Tim Tate |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844549585 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844549580 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN BLAKE PUBLISHING LTD |
| Pub. date: |
10 May, 2010 |
| Description: |
Roger Cook and Tim Tate - television investigators who have spent a lifetime exposing crooks across the world - tell the extraordinary stories of the men and women who invented the most extravagant scams of all time. |
| Synopsis: |
For more than 500 years con artists have been parting the greedy, gullible, unwary or soft-hearted from their money. From the very first recorded con - the Elizabethan-era 'Spanish Prisoner Scam' - to today's hi-tech online swindles, grifters have become ever-more inventive in their scope, scale and ambition. Their stories are remarkable - from the tale of Gregor MacGregor, the man who invented a fictional South American country, raised international loans on behalf of its 'government' and sold much of its (non-existent) land to would-be settlers in the 1820s, to Peter Foster, the king of bogus slimming 'cures' and friend of Page 3 models and a certain Prime Minister's wife. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
John Blake Publishing Ltd |
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