Rating: 
Summary: comprehensive and pretty up-to-date
Review: This is a very easy-to-read and useful compendium of information about common forms of fraud
and how to protect yourself from them. I've read numerous books of this type, and this is
the one I would recommend most highly today for being up-to-date and comprehensive. Abagnale
often gives unsourced anecdotes, but there are several that I recognize from newspaper or
other accounts I've read. My only real complaints with the book were that Abagnale says he uses
his children's birthdays for his PIN numbers (p. 149) which is bad advice given the ease
of obtaining birth certificates, his account of being the victim of credit card theft
over the Internet (pp. 151-153) doesn't seem entirely accurate unless he really did submit
his credit card number, and his statement about viruses arising from mere copying of legitimate
software (p. 176) is incorrect. He also missed an opportunity to warn about fake escrow
sites (p. 162). Apart from this, however, I think the book contains very valuable warnings
and advice.
Rating:
Summary: comprehensive and pretty up-to-date
Review: This is a very easy-to-read and useful compendium of information about common forms of fraud
and how to protect yourself from them. I've read numerous books of this type, and this is
the one I would recommend most highly today for being up-to-date and comprehensive. Abagnale
often gives unsourced anecdotes, but there are several that I recognize from newspaper or
other accounts I've read. My only real complaints with the book were that Abagnale says he uses
his children's birthdays for his PIN numbers (p. 149) which is bad advice given the ease
of obtaining birth certificates, his account of being the victim of credit card theft
over the Internet (pp. 151-153) doesn't seem entirely accurate unless he really did submit
his credit card number, and his statement about viruses arising from mere copying of legitimate
software (p. 176) is incorrect. He also missed an opportunity to warn about fake escrow
sites (p. 162). Apart from this, however, I think the book contains very valuable warnings
and advice.
Rating:
Summary: The beginner's guide to understanding fraud.
Review: This is the beginner's guide to understanding the sinister world of fraud in the United States and throughout the world. Mr. Abagnale describes some of the techniques confidence men use to further their malicious aims -- and what we can do to stop it. Perhaps one of the most interesting chapters is the one on counterfeiting. Here, we tend to think of those crazy characters who think they can create a $20 bill from their laser printer. Instead, all sorts of things are counterfeited, unfortunately. Those who counterfeit very detailed, expensive, and highly technical products, such as airline parts, are malicious individuals who have absolutely no regard for the welfare of those who they are subjecting to this abuse. Thankfully, as Mr. Abagnale points out, many of us are capable of preventing ourselves from being victims. We do not have to be victims. If we heed the advice of Mr. Abagnale--formerly a confidence man himself--perhaps we can prevent further abuses. We'll never stop fraud, he tells us. Of course. But if we read his and other books on stopping it, at least we won't be the victims.
Rating:
Summary: The beginner's guide to understanding fraud.
Review: This is the beginner's guide to understanding the sinister world of fraud in the United States and throughout the world. Mr. Abagnale describes some of the techniques confidence men use to further their malicious aims -- and what we can do to stop it. Perhaps one of the most interesting chapters is the one on counterfeiting. Here, we tend to think of those crazy characters who think they can create a $20 bill from their laser printer. Instead, all sorts of things are counterfeited, unfortunately. Those who counterfeit very detailed, expensive, and highly technical products, such as airline parts, are malicious individuals who have absolutely no regard for the welfare of those who they are subjecting to this abuse. Thankfully, as Mr. Abagnale points out, many of us are capable of preventing ourselves from being victims. We do not have to be victims. If we heed the advice of Mr. Abagnale--formerly a confidence man himself--perhaps we can prevent further abuses. We'll never stop fraud, he tells us. Of course. But if we read his and other books on stopping it, at least we won't be the victims.
Rating: 
Summary: Please read!!!
Review: Very good book. Anyone in sales, especially management, should read it. It contains very helpful information on how to detect possible counterfeits, cons, and scams. This guy knows what he's talking about.
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