Roger Cook''s Greatest Conmen - True Stories of the World''s Most Outrageous Scams

Informationen zum Autor Roger Cook has worked asa television investigator for more than 30 years. Tim Tate is a television producer." Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Cook, Roger Tate Cook, Tim Tate
• Publisher: Blake publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2010
• EAN: 9781844549580
• ISBN: 978-1-84454-958-0
• No. of pages: 291
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies