Hints and tips:
...Blame The Tinder Swindler, but many services now insist on wealth verification checks including sight of tax returns to prove annual income above a certain level....
...I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler.”...
...This isn’t the first time podcasters have turned their attention to catfishing....
...Combined with an era of low interest rates and easy money — now well and truly over — it is the ideal habitat for swindlers....
...For example, are the profits from the sales of Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Defund the FBI” T-shirts going to Greene’s campaign or the consultants who design and sell the shirts?...
...In the case of SpaceX, Musk can’t even resort to the excuse that “running this business isn’t exactly rocket science”....
...When he later asked her to hand over €358,000 via an intermediary so he could scan the bills to see if they were stolen, she couldn’t have been more helpful....
...“You won’t get their attention until it affects their bottom line.”...
...From Billy McFarland, co-founder of the ill fated Fyre Festival, to Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes and The Tinder Swindler, popular culture is often mesmerised by confidence tricksters....
...The masters of Britain, whatever their breezy affectation of accent and manner, had turned spiv, the last vestiges of common decency prostituted to swindlers no better than his notorious conman father and...
...Don’t fall for those alluring scams. And don’t be put off owning quality shares. Simon Edelsten is co-manager of the Mid Wynd International Investment Trust and Artemis Global Select Fund...
...Suppliers of counterfeit drugs must be convicted not as petty swindlers but as what they truly are: killers. In short, we urgently need to disrupt and change the system....
...Gentleman thieves and phoney grandees were slowly replaced by swindlers relieving women of their wartime wages and blackmailers threatening to expose soldiers for cowardice on the battlefield....
...Kolomoisky won't be better but he won't be worse.”...
...Don’t assume it’s real — professional-looking websites, adverts or social media posts don’t always mean that an investment opportunity is genuine....
...So, asks Henry Mance, things couldn’t go any worse this time . . . could they?...
...As 2019 gets under way, some officials at Goldman Sachs won’t be relishing what the new year might bring....
...Frauds may be a pain, but they aren’t a systemic threat to the economy....
...Similarly, you can’t understand global markets without thinking about culture. Money is not an incontrovertible force, like gravity....
...Many of the characters that inhabit the nine stories in this collection are rich males with low morals: swindlers, philanderers, thieves....
...“If the market is going down, the schemer can’t raise money. Madoff was only found out when he couldn’t pay redemptions,” says Mr Sorkin, a partner at Mintz & Gold, a law firm....
...“I was so sure that what I was doing was helping the country, I didn’t ask any questions — I just obeyed.”...
...It’s also a text that revels in the alchemy of theatre itself: the whole racket depends on the swindlers’ performances and the marks’ secret desires to be what they are not....
...And you can’t say the RSC aren’t getting their money’s worth out of that life-size plaster crocodile hanging from the ceiling: this isn’t its first appearance this season . . ....
...Americans are rediscovering their history and many of them don’t like what they see....
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