Download or read book The Super Scam written by Geronimo Stilton and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a terrible day at the office, Geronimo's nephew Benjamin convinces him to stand in line outside the new Crooked Whiskers Shopping Centre to get one of the free hi-fi headphone sets being given to every customer. Once Geronimo and Benjamin put on their headphones, they can't stop singing and dancing-and buying everything they can get their paws on! Something strange is going on-will Geronimo figure it out before it's too late?
Download or read book The Case of the Superstar Scam written by Lewis B. Montgomery and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milo and Jazz uncover a super star scam using their STEM problem-solving skills in this tenth chapter in the series. When teen idol Starr Silveira comes to Westview to film an episode of her hit TV show, Super Starr, the entire town is abuzz. But when kids start receiving mysterious letters from "Starr" asking them to hand over their valuable show memorabilia, Milo and Jazz suspect one thing: a super scam! The Milo & Jazz Mysteries is an ideal series for beginning readers making the transition to chapter books. It also features “Super Sleuthing” activities in each book, including hidden pictures, puzzles, mini-mysteries, and quizzes—plus free online activities.
Download or read book The Super Berries Scam written by Natasha Deen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2024 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubled that the berries an internet site promised would make her grow quickly do not work, Dalia investigates the matter and decides to make an online video to expose the scam and educate her fellow students about internet misinformation.
Download or read book The Grand Scam written by Rob Rose and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2005 to 2009, the heir to one of South Africa’s blue-blood families, Barry Tannenbaum, methodically constructed the largest-ever con in South African history. The Grand Scam exposes details about the brazen greed of the scammers, a bank that facilitated the shady dealings rather than alerting the authorities, and the naivety of business people who should have known better. It goes far beyond the original news stories, containing original research and material that, for the first time, answers the central question of why. Barry Tannenbaum, the grandson of the founder of one of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical firms, Adcock Ingram, offered investors stratospheric returns of more than 200 per cent a year by investing in the components used to make AIDS drugs. It was nothing more than a lie, which suckered the country’s business elite, including the former CEO of Pick n Pay, the one-time head of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the ex-boss of OK Bazaars. After the bubble popped in June 2009, finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that hundreds of investors in South Africa, Australia and Europe had ploughed more than R12.5 billion into Tannenbaum’s scheme, based on the empty promise of immense riches. Dwarfing the Brett Kebble rip-off, Fidentia and the Krion pyramid scheme, it proved to be the most embarrassing financial disaster in the country’s history, and it exposed holes in a banking and financial system billed as one of the safest in the world. For Tannenbaum’s victims, the nightmare continued after the scheme collapsed, as liquidators, tax officials and criminal investigators demanded their pound of flesh. But Tannenbaum, now at large on Australia’s Gold Coast, continues to live as if nothing happened, working for an Australian insurance company. The question that hasn’t been answered until now is, how did Tannenbaum swindle so many people with such ease? And, more crucially, why did he do it? Through extensive interviews with his family, friends and numerous ‘investors’, this book provides the startling answers to those questions. For the first time, the real motivation that fuelled South Africa’s Bernie Madoff is laid bare.
Download or read book Super Scam written by C. Fenner Goldsborough and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Black Book of Scams written by Industry Canada and published by Competition Bureau Canada. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.
Download or read book The Scam written by Janet Evanovich and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O’Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that’s what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O’Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can’t touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global terrorists. Nick and Kate will have to go deep undercover as high-stakes gamblers, wagering millions of dollars—and their lives—in an attempt to topple Trace’s empire. It’s a scam that will take Fox and O’Hare from the Las Vegas strip, to the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu’s North Shore, and into the dark back alleys of Macau. Their only backup—a self-absorbed actor, a Somali pirate, and Kate’s father, an ex-soldier who believes a rocket launcher is the best way to solve every problem. What could possibly go wrong?
Download or read book The Psychology of Fraud Persuasion and Scam Techniques written by Martina Dove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Fraud, Persuasion and Scam Techniques provides an in-depth explanation of not only why we fall for scams and how fraudsters use technology and other techniques to manipulate others, but also why fraud prevention advice is not always effective. Starting with how fraud victimisation is perceived by society and why fraud is underreported, the book explores the different types of fraud and the human and demographic factors that make us vulnerable. It explains how fraud has become increasingly sophisticated and how fraudsters use communication, deception and theories of rationality, cognition and judgmental heuristics, as well as specific persuasion and scam techniques, to encourage compliance. Covering frauds including romance scams and phishing attacks such as advance fee frauds and so-called miracle cures, the book explores ways we can learn to spot scams and persuasive communication, with checklists and advice for reflection and protection. Featuring a set of practical guidelines to reduce fraud vulnerability, advice on how to effectively report fraud and educative case studies and examples, this easy-to-read, instructive book is essential reading for fraud prevention specialists, fraud victims and academics and students interested in the psychology of fraud.
Download or read book Dot Con written by James Veitch and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From viral comedy sensation James Veitch (as seen on TED, Conan, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) comes a collection of laugh-out-loud funny exchanges with email scammers. The Nigerian prince eager to fork over his inheritance, the family friend stranded unexpectedly in Norway, the lonely Russian beauty looking for love . . . they spam our inboxes with their hapless pleas for help, money, and your social security number. In Dot Con, Veitch finally answers the question: what would happen if you replied? Suspicious emails pop up in our inboxes and our first instinct is to delete unopened. But what if you responded to the deposed princess begging for money in your Gmail? Veitch dives into the underbelly of our absurd email scam culture, playing the scammers at their own game, and these are the surprising, bizarre, and hilarious results.
Download or read book Super Reading Secrets written by Howard Stephen Berg and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devised by the man recorded in Guinness as the world's fastest reader--80 pages per minutes--this is the only program that combines the most up-to-date learning techniques and psychological discoveries with proven speed-reading methods and ancient tools like meditation to significantly improve both reading speed and comprehension.
Download or read book The AuthorHouse Scam written by Robin Levin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four years after having published my book with Trafford, a subsidiary of AuthorHouse, I was still getting phone calls from their high-powered phone salespeople, known as marketing consultants, to persuade me to buy their expensive marketing gimmicks. I must admit that I had given in far too often in the past, and they were quite sure they could continue to milk my bank account. Almost immediately buyer's remorse set in with a vengeance. How could I do this! I know this is a scam, why am I so stupid? I'm supposed to be a reasonably intelligent woman! Nothing they've ever done on my behalf has had the slightest impact on book sales. Super expensive services with nothing to show for them. How could I have let them talk me into kicking Lucy's football again? Again! Am I the only fool? Have others had the same experiences with these people? I decided to look a bit more extensively into what I came to realize was the AuthorHouse Scam, and have written this book to share my experiences and findings with other authors and potential authors."
Download or read book The Business of the 21st Century written by Robert T. Kiyosaki and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Business of the 21st Century, Robert Kiyosaki explains the revolutionary business of network marketing in the context of what makes any business a success in any economic situation. This book lends credibility to multilevel marketing business, and justifies why it is an ideal avenue through which to learn basic business and sales skills... and earn money.
Download or read book Geronimo Stilton Mini Mystery 3 the Mouse Hoax written by Geronimo Stilton and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had been invited to an exhibition of the painter Pablo Mousehasso's artwork. He was the most famouse painter on Mouse Island so I was excited to meet him! He even offered me an exclusive interview. Little did I know that his paintings hid a secret. Would my friends and I be able to uncover it?
Download or read book Romance Scam Survivor written by Jan Marshall and published by Romance Scam Survivor. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan believed she was 'in love'. She accepted a proposal of marriage, and then sent money to a professional scammer. Jan is one of the rare few survivors of a romance scam who has the courage to speak up, and she does - loudly, eloquently and frequently telling the whole sordid story. You might think it can't happen to you, but can you be sure?
Download or read book The Cheese Burglar written by Geronimo Stilton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was attending the Mouse Island Cheese Exhibition to show off my prized antique cheese rinds when a thief struck and I was accused of being the burglar! It was up to my friend Hercule Poirat to clear my good name.
Download or read book The Lake Monster written by Geronimo Stilton and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious monster has been sighted in a lake on Mouse Island. I knew I was just the rodent to investigate! But when I travelled to the lake with my family to try to photograph the monster everything started to go wrong. Could I figure out this creature's secret? Moldy mozzarella, it was an adventure!
Download or read book The Global Warming Scam written by Vincent Gray and published by Stairway Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Vincent Gray discusses and analyzes the science and politics of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) meme. Dr. Gray is a renowned scientist and voice of reason; he thoroughly debunks the crass manipulation and politicization of academic climate science. His well-documented book is a valuable contribution to the current debate between global warming activists and human-caused climate change skeptics.
