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I'm a Romance Scam IT Detective(Edition 2)

Author : Selina Co

Publisher : Selina Co

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 50,99 MB

Release : 2020-02-15

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1922327174

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Award-Winning Finalist in the True Crime: Non-Fiction category of the 2020 International Book Awards Movie Screenplay: Hacker, Love and Her Enemies (Coming soon) Multiple successful professionals fall prey to the deceptions in this non-fiction memoir! A must-read for everyone who is looking for a romantic relationship online, or just wants a fun read about this outrageous transnational fraud! Computer engineer Selina Co becomes a hacker and hoaxer who exploits and scams a scammer. Watch Selina gradually becomes even more dangerous than the criminal grifters! But ... how was Selina the clever IT professional love scammed online and conned 70% of her life savings by the conman in the first place? Will she be able to save Jason, who is with another romance fraudster? Read this informative, painful yet slightly laughable true cybercrime story, spanning 7 countries (Australia, the United States, Singapore, Ghana, Nigeria, New Zealand and China). - Psychological games, tactics, cons, tricks and forgeries in real-life and Internet romance scams. Some call them "confidence scams" or "confidence tricks" - are the frauds really all about manipulating trust and relationships? Outsmart and punish evil swindlers in the correct ways - get them brainwashed and hoaxed! - Cybercriminology: How do real IT analysis accurately identify con artists in cyberspace? Are stingers able to remain anonymous? Is hacking always illegal? Why are cyber predators rarely bought to justice? Why are the misconducts of certain banks to blame in cross-border organised financial crimes?



I'm a Romance Scam IT Detective (Edition 2): Psychological Games * Real IT Analysis * Legal Matters * Gender Studies

Author : Selina Co

Publisher :

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 28,43 MB

Release : 2019-12-13

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9781922327161

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Selina becomes a hacker and actress who scams the scammer and captures his real information. Join Selina's adventure and see her interaction with lawyers, police, hackers, banks and organizations ... But ... why did she fall victim in the first place, when she was not even in love? This true story involves 7 countries in 4 continents.



The Missing American

Author : Kwei Quartey

Publisher : Soho Press

Page : 433 pages

File Size : 34,84 MB

Release : 2020-01-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1641290714

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A 2021 Edgar Nominee for Best Novel Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest depths of the email scams and fetish priests in Ghana, the world's Internet capital. When her dreams of rising through the Accra police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her career. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency that takes on cases of missing persons, theft, and infidelity. It’s not the future she imagined, but it’s her best option. Meanwhile, Gordon Tilson, a middle-aged widower in Washington, DC, has found solace in an online community after his wife’s passing. Through the support group, he’s even met a young Ghanaian widow he’s come to care about. When her sister gets into a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill—to the horror of his only son, Derek. Then Gordon decides to surprise his new love by paying her a visit—and disappears. Fearing for his father’s life, Derek follows him across the world to Ghana, Internet capital of the world, where he and Emma will find themselves deep in a world of sakawa scams, fetish priests, and those willing to kill to protect their secrets.



The Tiger's Eye

Author : Felix Gumpaw

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 42,87 MB

Release : 2021-02-02

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1534474994

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In this second installment of the funny and stylish new graphic novel series Pup Detectives, the puppy PIs sniff out a statue thief! Fresh off of their victory in nabbing the lunchtime bandit of Pawston Elementary, Rider Woofson and the rest of the pup detectives are on the lookout for their next case. They don’t have to wait long because before you can say “Bow-Wowza!” a crime occurs—the theft of a precious statue known as the Tiger’s Eye that was on display for Show and Tell. The suspects are a-plenty, but the key to catching this crook will come from uncovering who had a motive. The PI Pack is up for the challenge...as long as the investigation doesn’t interfere with lunch!



A Rage in Harlem

Author : Chester B. Himes

Publisher : Penguin Classics

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,46 MB

Release : 2024-06-06

Category :

ISBN : 9780241685068

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Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.



The Girls I've Been

Author : Tess Sharpe

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 32,84 MB

Release : 2021-01-26

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0593353811

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Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobbie Brown! In this feminist, suspenseful thriller the daughter of a con artist is taken hostage in a bank heist—and will need to tap into all her skills in order to survive. A BUSTLE, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN, BUZZFEED and MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2021 Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother's protégé. But when her mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years Nora's been playing at normal. But she needs to dust off the skills she ditched because she has three problems: #1: Her ex walked in on her with her girlfriend. Even though they're all friends, Wes didn't know about her and Iris. #2: The morning after Wes finds them kissing, they all have to meet to deposit the fundraiser money they raised at the bank. It's a nightmare that goes from awkward to deadly, because: #3: Right after they enter the bank, two guys start robbing it. The bank robbers may be trouble, but Nora's something else entirely. They have no idea who they're really holding hostage . . .



Cotton Comes to Harlem

Author : Chester Himes

Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 45,22 MB

Release : 2011-08-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307803244

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From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.



Tokyo Zangyo

Author : Michael Pronko

Publisher : Raked Gravel Press

Page : 437 pages

File Size : 34,92 MB

Release : 2021-07-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1942410247

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In Tokyo, your job can kill After a top-tier manager in Japan’s premier media company ends up dead in front of company headquarters, Detective Hiroshi enters the high-pressure, hard-driving world of Tokyo’s large corporations. Hiroshi quickly finds out the manager fell from the roof at the exact same spot as an employee suicide three years before. With little more to go on, Hiroshi can’t tell if the manager’s death was a guilt-ridden suicide, a careless accident, or a grisly personnel decision. The only certainty is that Japanese workplaces rely on “zangyo,” unpaid overtime that drives employees to quit—or to kill. Teaming up with his mentor Takamatasu, Hiroshi scours the off-record spending, lavish entertaining and unspoken agreements that keep Japan, Inc. running with brutal efficiency. Working overtime himself, Hiroshi probes the dark heart of Japanese business, a place he’s tried to avoid all his life. Tokyo Zangyo is the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series.



The Verifiers

Author : Jane Pek

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 19,11 MB

Release : 2022-02-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0593313798

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ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing.... “The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides fertile new ground for humans to deceive, defraud and possibly murder one another.... Well rendered and charming.... Original and intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She’s also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls—and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate—and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.



Lethal Investments

Author : K. O. Dahl

Publisher : Minotaur Books

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 42,77 MB

Release : 2012-11-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250017939

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A string of murders sucks the Oslo Detectives into a maelstrom of dark secrets in the latest from the master of Norwegian crime writing. Award-winning author K.O. Dahl has achieved international acclaim with his Oslo Detectives series featuring inspectors Frølich and Gunnarstranda. Now he presents the riveting fourth book in the series, combining rare psychological insight and elegant prose. Lethal Investments opens seven years prior to the case that started it all: The Fourth Man. It's the early nineties, and Oslo is driven by the rapid success of the IT boom. When Reiden Rosendal, a beautiful young woman, is found brutally murdered in her apartment, Inspectors Gunnarstranda and Frølich's top suspect is her lover—until he's discovered dead, too. A trail of clues points the team towards the software company where Reidun worked—a labyrinth of secrets where employees' business and the private lives intertwine in a thick web of hurried sexual dalliances, hushed affairs, and downright lies. When yet another body connected to Reidun surfaces, Gunnarstranda and Frølich must race against time to lay bare the murderer's dark secrets and stop the senseless killing. Once again, Dahl's dark, lyrical writing and haunting, atmospheric setting bring new life to the modern noir mystery.