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Through this exploration of white-collar crime in Canada, you'll discover that we have some of the most colourful hucksters in the world.

Swindlers and swindling --- Fraud --- Commercial fraud --- Deceit --- Misrepresentation (Crime) --- Commercial crimes --- Deception --- Torts --- Hoaxes --- Impostors and imposture --- Con artists --- Confidence men --- Confidence women --- Grifters --- Scam artists --- Scammers and scamming --- Scamming --- Crime --- Criminals --- Tricksters

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Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago. But his method of using new investments to pay existing investors and finance a highflying lifestyle is alive and well: just as much money is lost in the United States today from Ponzi schemes as from shoplifting. Somehow, con artists are able to dazzle wealthy, educated individuals and sophisticated institutions and convince them to hand over huge sums of money. How? This book explores these con artists' fascinating power of persuasion and deception, uncovering the subtle signals that mimic truth and honesty.

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One would not expect a police officer to describe a criminal as "remarkable," "well worth knowing," or "excellent." Yet some did when their quarry was a confidence woman. Blackmailer, swindler, or pickpocket: the confidence woman could take any form. Regardless of their different motives and tactics, confidence women have much in common, for they have long been misrepresented in American literature and culture. In Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America, Kathleen De Grave redresses the exaggerations and distortions by examining how the line between fact and fiction blurs. Drawing from a variety of sources, such as memoirs, diaries, detective reports, newspaper accounts, and sociological studies written during the period, De Grave first presents a historical context. By comparing the exploits of such women as "Chicago May" Churchill, "Big Bertha" Heyman, and Ellen Peck to those of fictional women who used the same strategies in noncriminal situations, De Grave broadens the definition of the confidence woman beyond criminality to include adventuresses, soldiers/spies, and "gold diggers." Next, she relates how the confidence woman appears in autobiographies and in fiction. She further expands her argument to include the narrative devices of nineteenth-century women writers who used a kind of confidence game as a way to lure their readers into the text.

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Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Styles & Communication --- Bedrijfsethiek --- Supply chain management --- Bedrijfsethiek. --- Supply chain management. --- Industrial procurement. --- Business logistics. --- Fraud --- Swindlers and swindling. --- Business ethics. --- Consumer protection. --- Prevention. --- Consumerism --- Protection, Consumer --- Business --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Con artists --- Confidence men --- Confidence women --- Grifters --- Scam artists --- Scammers and scamming --- Scamming --- Buyer-supplier relations --- Buying, Industrial --- Industrial buying --- Industrial equipment --- Industrial purchasing --- Procurement, Industrial --- Purchasing, Industrial --- Supplier-buyer relations --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Professional ethics --- Purchasing --- Commercial policy --- Wealth --- Crime --- Criminals --- Tricksters --- Industrial management --- Logistics

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This lively history, set in 16th-century England, details the hitherto unknown case of an extraordinary physician, magician, and con-man named Gregory Wisdom - and the London underworld to which he belonged.

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