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The Outsiders: Exposing The Secretive World of Irish Travellers. Merlin Publishing, November 2006 |
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The Fraudsters: How Con-Artists Steal Your Money
Merlin Publishing, September 2008 |
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THE Outsiders uncovers the secretive world of Irish travellers where prejudice, crime and a burning loyalty to family, clan and tradition has made the community resistant to external influences. It uncovers details about Irish traveller criminals and their involvement in fraud, illegal boxing, home invasions, armed robbery and drug-dealing. From Beijing to London, the author reveals details of illegal operations by successful Irish travelers, including the ‘Rathkeale Rovers’ clans, the Texas-based ‘Greenhorn’ Carrolls and the notoriously violent McCarthy-Dundons. Irish traveller con-artists have carried out sophisticated scams all over the world from selling sub-standard electrical goods on Australia’s east coast to the distraction theft of valuable antique furniture in Maryland, US. Other gangs have been major players in the UK’s tobacco smuggling industry. |
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THERE are as many ways to earn cash dishonestly as to make an honest living. Fraud is now an international industry, with a shadowy underworld network in which everything from songbirds and garlic, to designer goods and medicines are faked and sold on. The Fraudsters: How Con-artists Steal Your Money details the con-tricks, identity theft, and exploitation, deployed every day by an army of these hard-working fraudsters. The con-artists come in all shapes and sizes; psychopaths who have no understanding of how their crimes affect their victims, the white collar grafters who like to think there are no victims if an insurance company is hoodwinked and then there are the fraudsters who stick to their flimsy stories even when confronted with concrete evidence of their crime. Billions have been stolen by highly-organised gangs of fraudsters, who sell unlikely tales through internet chat room and forums. For some, the lure of illicit money is more potent than doing a day s work. Fraudsters pretend to be friends, a respected banker, or even a lover to win the trust they plan to violate. Arrogance, greed, gullibility and insecurity combine to make some people easy pickings for con-artists.
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