GETTING INSIDE THE MIND OF A FRAUDSTER
January 1st, 2009
BY ANDY HOLDER
Executing the perfect fraud requires a skilful combination of imagination, innovation, meticulous planning and lots of patience. Those behind the myriad of schemes and scams currently afflicting the modern world know that devising an irresistible product offering the opportunity to make huge gains for virtually no risk is only the start. The right people have to be persuaded to buy into it and their money, once handed over, hoisted safety out of reach: preferably moved quickly through several jurisdictions to disguise its origin, distance it from ...
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