Titres dans Escrocs, impostures et fraudes

From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history. You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot...

'This time they'd ****ed with the wrong person. Either way, I told myself, I would survive this horrific stage of my life and I was going to document it while I did and one day, when it was all over, I was going to show people what really happened. Who I really was. My truth. My story.' THE...

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At 5:02 p.m. on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband, Bruce, was having a seizure. Officers rushed to the Nickells' mobile home to find Stella standing frozen at the door…. Bruce was on the floor fighting for his life.

Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in LA alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet. 

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcastThe Dreamto expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but...

From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel, a vividly illustrated graphic novel, adapted for audio, featuring nine spine-chilling stories—based on real events—of the horror that lurks within the unknown In MrBallen Presents: Where...

巧みな話術で人々の心を操る歴史上の大詐欺師たちの手口を紐解き、私たちの心の隙間に潜む心理的な罠を解明することで、現代の悪意から身を守る実録犯罪ドキュメンタリー。満員電車に揺られる通勤のひとときや、一...

Master the dark psychology of deception before true crime fraudsters turn your trust into their next big payday. Perfect for an engaging daily commute, this gripping investigation plunges you into the tense, high-stakes world of historical hoaxes and modern financial predators. Learn exactly how...

Explora la oscura psicología del fraude y protege tus finanzas al desentrañar los mayores crímenes de la historia. Ideal para quienes buscan transformar su trayecto diario en una experiencia reveladora, este relato sumerge al oyente en los audaces mecanismos del engaño humano a lo largo de...

Décryptez les plus grandes fraudes historiques et la psychologie de la manipulation pour déjouer l'illusion parfaite. Cette plongée captivante dans le crime en col blanc transforme votre trajet quotidien en une enquête fascinante sur la vulnérabilité humaine. En analysant la grandeur et la...

Dieser packende Finanzratgeber entschlüsselt die psychologische Falle und die harte Mathematik hinter jedem Anlagebetrug. Egal ob beim konzentrierten Zuhören auf dem Weg zur Arbeit oder beim Ordnen der eigenen Finanzen – diese augenöffnende Analyse zieht dich sofort tief in die dunkle Welt...

Packende Kriminalgeschichte trifft fundierte Psychologie, wenn brillante Meisterbetrüger historische Imperien stürzen. Egal ob beim täglichen Pendeln oder beim fokussierten Zuhören, diese fesselnde Reise entführt dich direkt in die Köpfe jener, die ganze Finanzmärkte und Königshöfe...

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates “Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—Salon The inspiration for the Hulu...

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams—by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen comes the true story behind one of America’s most shocking cases of religious manipulation and murder. On the day after Christmas 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a small house on a quiet...

Since 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say the police have been calling murder an accident. They have a name for it–serial murder. They have a map–the first thirty-five cases fell along one stretch of Interstate 94, from Michigan to Montana. They have smiley faces spray-painted near the water where the men went in, and a victim count that started at forty and eventually passed seven hundred. The FBI says there is no evidence any of it is connected.

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan. Cults prey...

A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. In mid-2015 Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017 VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming.

It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million.