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BEAUTY & HEALTH AIDSTHAT DON'T WORK citadel press GO WORK CON GAMES COST THE PUBLIC BILLIONSOF DOLLARS EACH YEAR THIS BOOK WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO RECOGNIZE & AVOID THEM M.ALLEN HENDERSON RELIGIOUS BLESSINGS... FOR CASH HOW WORK CON GAMES HOW CON GAMES WORK M.ALLEN HENDERSON Citadel Press / Secaucus, N.J, PreviouslypublishedbyPaladin Pressunderthe title FlimflamMan;HowCon Games Work Copyright © 1985byPaladin Press AllRights reserved. PublishedbyCitadelPress AdivisionofLyleStuart Inc. 120EnterpriseAve.,Secaucus, N.J. 07094 InCanada: Musson Book Company AdivisionofGeneral PublishingCo. Limited Don Mills,Ontario Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica ISBN 0-8065-1014-5 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Thanks are due Detective Robert Thiede of the Denver Police Intelligence Division, Craig A. Harrison, M.D., and Dan Eisenberg, president of Tracers Company of America, for contributing information for Flimflam Man; to Rose-Marie Strassberg for her painstaking editing; and to Frances Porter, art director, for the special attention she has given this book. am also indebted to several bunco friends and acquain- I tances, who shall here remain nameless, for giving me a per- sonal insight into the confidence experience. For Molly Henderson, with love Contents EVERYBODY LOVES AN OUTLAW I. 1 The Outlaw as Hero What the Con Artist Is Really Like Super Salesman Great Pretender The Many Faces ofthe Confidence Man Your Buddy the Con Artist BuncoTraits: A Summary II. WHO CAN BE A MARK? 17 How Likely Are You to Become a Mark? New Kid in Town Dudley Do-Right Starry-eyed Innocent Wild and Crazy Guy Conning the Mormons in Salt LakeCity III. ITS A LIVING 31 TheTichborneClaimant Folk Hero Forger Checkered Career of Frank Abagnale Arthur LeeTrotter, Sports Star Impersonator Joe Flynn, the "Stingman" TheTerribleTurk The Wild West: Bunco Buckeroos TheOld Frontier The New Frontier Uncle Sam the Flimflam Man: Government Stings ABSCAM Ronald Rewald: CIA Spy or Civilian Con Man? vll FLIMFLAM MAN viil IV. CLASSIC CONS 67 The BigCon The Wire The Payoff The Rag A Word to the Wise The Short Con Block Hustle Pigeon Drop Bank Examiner Swindle Jamaican HandkerchiefSwitch Obituary Hustle Three-Card Monte Poker Bunco Missing-Heir Scheme Gold Mine Swindle Spanish Prisoner Game Murphy Game BadgerGame V. IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME 97 Door-to-DoorCons Home Repair Could Have Justa MomentofYourTime? I Telephone Scams: Boiler-Room Fraud in the Eighties Goat Pasture Scam How the Oil-Lease Lottery Works-Legitimately U.S. Oil and Gas Westchase Oil-Lease Scam Gold Scams Bullion Reserve International Gold Bullion Exchange VI. TRUST ME, BABY: BUNCO ROMANCE 123 Sweetheart Scams Marriage Bunco Some Previous Existence A Marrying Fool

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