Kings of Stings The Greatest Swindles From Down Under

by Morton, James; Lobez, Susanna

• ISBN13: 9780522858594
• ISBN10: 0522858597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Victory Books

Summary

Do you want to help a young girl orphaned in the Tsunami but be paid to do so? Share in Al Quaeda's hidden gold? Buy shares which cannot fall in value? Share in a lost fortune? Marry a young girl half your age who you've met on the internet? Have your roof repaired well under price or see an invisible goldfish? Think twice and then think again or you may become one of the thousands taken in by confidence tricksters each year. In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book, James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia with a meticulously researched study of the world of the Australian confidence man and woman. Morton and Lobez look at the careers of the highly talented swindlers and their tricks - schemes such as changing paper into banknotes, selling Melbourne's Tramway sheds; horse and dog doping; fixing fights and athletic races, faking deaths, forging paintings; curing anything from gallstones to cancer and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, anything necessary to separate the unwary from their money over the last hundred and fifty years.

Author Biography

Susanna Lobez is a former ABC specialist legal broadcaster on the radio show The Law Report and on the television show Law Matters. She has contributed to the Age and to the Sunday Herald Sun. James Morton, a former defense lawyer in England, is one of Britain's leading experts on crime and the author of more than 20 books, including the bestselling Gangland series. They are coauthors of Dangerous to Know and Gangland Australia.