NCJ Number
120907
Date Published
1989
Length
117 pages
Annotation
This manual explains how confidence artists perpetrate a variety of crimes and frauds and explains how to recognize and avoid becoming the victim of an investment or consumer fraud or other confidence game.
Abstract
The test explains that con artists are usually expert salespersons, manipulative, angry beneath their controlled exteriors, charismatic, adaptable to all situations, intuitive, obsessive, greedy, and amoral. They usually appear to be respectable citizens and may be friends, relatives, strangers, neighbors, employees, or business associates. The most important prevention technique is to do a thorough background check and analysis of any information provided regarding an investment or product. Scripts often used in scams, lists of organizations that can help investigate a problem, photograph, and figures are provided.