Kings of stings : the greatest swindles from down under / James Morton, Susanna Lobez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, James, author.

Lobez, Susanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swindlers and swindling.

Quacks and quackery--Australia.

Quacks and quackery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Victory Books, 2011.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Contents

Introduction

1 In the Beginning

2 The Golden Years

3 The Old and the Short

4 Death, Where is Thy Sting

5 The Conman as Murderer

6 Sex and the Single (or Married) Person

7 Physician, Heal Thyself

8 Lead, Kindly Light

9 A Law unto Themselves

10 Gongs Galore

11 The Unfair Sex?

12 White-Collar Grime

13 Art for the Artist's Sake

14 The Hand that Held the Pen

15 At the Track

16 Sports Rorts

17 Hoaxes

18 The More Things Change

Notes

Select Bibliography

index

imprint.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522860191

0522860192

OCLC:

1089009205