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Frauds & Scams / March 2025
AI is making it easier for scammers to outsmart us, according to the Wall Street Journal. For March 2025, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine frauds and scams.
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Easy Money
TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket, worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were making heaps of money. He enlisted the help of journalist Jacob Silverman for a caper and exposé that points in shock to the climactic final days of cryptocurrency now upon us.
Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains
Explains the reasons behind the popularity of counterfeiting and fraud among both consumers and companies, a systematic and holistic overview and critical examination of the situations that have caused an increasing trend of those criminal activities.
The Politics of Ponzi Schemes
In the space of three years, Bernie Madoff, Tom Petters and R. Allen Stanford were all convicted for running multi-billion dollar Ponzi schemes. These three schemes alone have had the largest financial take in U.S. history. This book provides the first representative portrait of Ponzi schemes, their perpetrators, and their victims.
A Fresh Look at Fraud
Features psychologists, criminologists, and computer scientists to address the state-of-the-art research on the rising problem of fraud, scams, and financial abuse, stimulating a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, theories, methods, and practices.
The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
Two Wall Street Journal reporters expose a man who Bill Gates and Western governments entrusted with hundreds of millions of dollars to make profits and end poverty who now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen frauds ever.
The Reign of Botnets
Delivers a timely and incisive presentation of the contemporary bot threat landscape and the latest defense strategies used by leading companies to protect themselves. The author uses plain language to lift the veil on bots and fraud, making a topic critical to your website's security easy to understand and even easier to implement.