Kings Of Stings. The Greatest Swindles From Down Under

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 408 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so Share in Al Qaedas hidden gold Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunamiIn 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 changing paper into banknotes, selling other peoples 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.

ISBN: 9780522858594