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"A famous actor and an experienced journalist present an entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, from its initial promise of taking power from banks while providing quick riches to its current spectacular crash"-- Amazon.com.

"Con artists are everywhere-your new boyfriend or girlfriend, your new neighbor or coworker, your new friend-and they don't outsmart you; they out-feel you to get their hands on your money. In Anatomy of a Con Artist, Walton lays out 'the tells' based on hundreds of real-life cases he's investigated, including: Red Flag #1--A Stranger Offering Help: Someone new and overly helpful insinuates themselves into your life. Red Flag #3--Drama, Drama, Drama:...

Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of Phasmatia, the world's first great Internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher.

As one of the trio of ad men who schemed to concoct Phasmatia, Evans certainly knows where all the skeletons are buried, and is ready to tellprovided he manages to live long enough. His close friend and co-conspirator,

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Watch as Mike and his team of dedicated pros transform 4000 squre feet of cold rafters and dust into a finished awe-inspiring dream home in just eight weeks.

A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: " Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help" When Laura Curtis, a lonely editor in a cold northern city, discovers that her...

"Use a computer, go to jail. The terms of Stanley Jobson's parole are clear. Yet a $10-million payday awaits the superhacker if he takes on a job masterminded by a charismatic covert agent: the daring electronic theft of a government slush fund codenamed Swordfish"--Container.

Provides consumers with information on ways to protect themselves from scams, covering such topics as homes, credit cards, identity theft, and travel.