In 2004 Emma Golightly had met her first victim – Chris Williams. ibid.
Just three weeks after being thrown out by her first victim she moved in with her second victim. ibid.
She was Taylor Golightly, high flying doctor. ibid.
Cancer became a tool in her scam. ibid.
Robert Hendy-Freegard lied and convinced his prey that he was an MI5 secret agent. Believing the IRA were baying for his blood, his victims paid the ultimate price for his bogus protection. Conmen Case Files s2e5: Hendy Freegard: The Real Story of the Puppet Master
Freegard’s cruelty was becoming infinite. ibid.
Freegard ensnares new victims with his vicious MI5 con. ibid.
Hendy-Freegard was finally in custody after ten years of cruelty … The police had to locate the missing victims. ibid.
The life sentence was a bitter-sweet victory for his victims … The sentence was shockingly reduced to ten years. ibid.
Conmen: the most enigmatic of the criminal fraternity. These expert liars and consummate manipulators use their intoxicating charm to prey upon the most prized human trait: trust, in order to make money and ravage lives. Conmen Case Files s3e1: Hatton: The Bogus Banker
To con a woman called Christine Handy out of half a million pounds. ibid.
She was being groomed by a conman called Marc Hatton. ibid.
He wanted Christine to believe that he was Alexander de Rothschild. ibid.
She had sold her £500,000 home … She had his child. ibid.
He had actually been living with another woman. Monstrously, Marc Hatton had raped and sexually abused the woman’s young daughter. ibid.
The monster was sentenced for all his crimes. ibid.
The man who swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when he took to the stand as a forensic scientist. The fake forensic expert worked for over twenty years on over 700 cases, all without a qualification to his name. Conmen Case Files s3e2: Morrison
Gene Morrison earned up to ten times the amount he paid the experts. ibid.
He simply started working as a forensic investigator. ibid.
The scale of the con was monumental. ibid.
Gene Morrison was in serious trouble with the police in Manchester. ibid.
The four victims who came forward were aged between 8 years old and 15 years old. ibid.
The conman who convinced his community he was a high flying barrister. Conmen Case Files: Stephen Klenczar s3e3: Bogus Barrister
He was in reality a seasoned conman. ibid.
Britain’s youngest conman who posed as a tycoon and swindled more than a quarter of a million pounds from the tender age of 13. Conmen Case Files: Cameron s3e4: Crime Prodigy: The 13 Year Old Conman
The long arm of the law were closing in. ibid.
A globetrotting Colombian whose crimes it’s estimated made him more than a million pounds in the last decade, and seen him named as one of the most gifted confidence tricksters in the world. Conmen Case Files s3e5: Juan Betancourt: The Perfect 5-Star Hotel Con
Five-star hotels his hunting ground and developed the ultimate strategy in order to effortlessly infiltrate their finest suites and raid their bountiful safes. ibid.
In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well-spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. Frank Abagnale
We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It’s all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates. Joan Collins
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away. Walter Kirn
It’s a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. Roddy Doyle
April 28, 1978 Plaza Hotel, New York. American Hustle 2013 starring Christian Bale & Bradley Cooper & Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner & Jennifer Lawrence & C K Louis & Jack Huston & Michael Pena & Shea Whigham & Alessandro Nivola & Elisabeth Rohm & Paul Herman et al, director David O Russell
You have to find a way to survive. And you knew your choices were bad. I learned how to survive when I was a kid. My father had a glass business. I would rather be on the taking side than the getting taken side any day of the week. ibid. kid’s commentary
I became a con artist. For real. From the feet up. ibid.
He wasn’t necessarily in good shape. And he had this comb-over that was rather elaborate. ibid. her commentary
He had a chain of dry cleaning stores. He asked me if I wanted to come in and upgrade my wardrobe. ibid. her commentary
As far as I could see people were always conning each other to get what they wanted. We even con ourselves. Talk ourselves into things ... We're all conning ourselves in one way or another. Just to get through Life. ibid. his commentary
She was the Picasso of passive aggressive karate. She was better than any con artist I ever met including myself. ibid.
She had me. I was her mark. Ibid
We gave the two million back so Carmine got a reduced sentence: eighteen months. ibid.
In medieval times, the Church used to sell ‘indulgences’ for money. This amounted to paying for some numbers of days’ remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase ‘ill-gotten’ might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
He was the man. My father could walk into a room and people would stop and turn around and go, Who’s that? Dad out of the ring was the embodiment of everything he was in the ring. He was a showman. He was the best of the sharps. He was the lovable conman. Ray Robinson junior
Chapter 4 Blood Money: Petrodollar: the largest financial con in recorded history. Illuminati Plans Anunnaki Truth, viz Youtube, 2016
He is the greatest grifter the world has ever seen. He ran the longest of long cons. He hustled the most money. His marks include millionaires and movie magnets as well as thousands of ordinary victims all over the globe. Tomorrow Bernie Madoff will be sentenced for masterminding the biggest con the world has ever seen. This World: The Madoff Hustle, BBC 2009
Had confessed to swindling billions of dollars from investors. Madoff was the last person on Wall Street most people would have suspected of such a crime. ibid.
The supply of money and marks always dries up in the end. ibid.
Madoff may have stolen as much as $64 billion. ibid.
Kirby Brown is an adventurous artist striving for self-improvement. Self-help Guru James Ray guarantees a transformation that will unlock the life of your dreams. But Ray’s methods come at a high price and with great risk. Killer Clans, ID 2014
Kirby signs up for more of his seminars. But immersion into Ray’s world comes at a high price. ibid.
Two deaths and twenty-one serious injuries. ibid.
He is actually a junior college drop-out. ibid.
James Ray is released in 2013. ibid.
You will feel as though you are going to die. I guarantee that. James Arthur Ray
‘It was supposed to be a journey into spiritual discovery and wholeness …’ Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray, James Arthur Ray, news report, CNN 2016
‘A third person has died after being overcome by extreme heat …’ ibid.
‘James was one of the top speakers in his field.’ ibid. Ferriter