#conartists

Every time my friend and I run into a financial crisis that requires a hell lot of money to fund, we will always joke about finding a kidney receptor or buyer to sell our kidneys to. So it was quite funny

It wasn't entirely clear until I witnessed a series of the same events unfold in almost a similar way. Initially, it wasn't a " once struck twice shy" for me because it wasn't happening directly

source Ripple looking like a true cowboy coin and a total sham run by con artists. Ripple or XRP as we know it has run foul of the law with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing a case against

This phrase comes from the exploits of the famous conman George C. Parker, whose specialty was "selling" public lands to naive foreigners in New York City around the turn of the 20th century.

Here is a really bizzare and brazen con-job from 2013. I first heard of this a while back but didn't know too many details until I did a bit of searching. Posing as a CIA agent, a 26 year old Virginia

I have been fascinated with clever or ballsy scams ever since I first read Frank Abagnale's "Catch Me If You Can". This is a great true story about a teenager who runs from the FBI for years,

Remember the Nigerian emails, where you would receive an email that had many variations but in the end it just came to the assurance that you had won or inherited big money? I don't know how many people