Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods write by Tim Phillips. This book was released on 2007-03-03. Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this compelling account, Knockoff exposes the truth behind the fakes and uncovers the shocking consequences of dealing in counterfeit goods. Travelling across the globe, Tim Phillips shows that counterfeiting isn't a victimless crime; it is an illegal global industry undermining the world's economies. Based on interviews with victims, investigators and the people who sell counterfeits, Knockoff reveals the link between what we see as "innocent" fakes and organized crime. Phillips describes in detail how the counterfeiters' criminal network costs jobs, cripples developing countries, breeds corruption and violence, and kills thousands of people every year. He shows that by turning a blind eye to the problem, we become accomplices to theft, extortion and murder.
Fake Goods, Real money
Fake Goods, Real money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fake Goods, Real money write by Georgios A. Antonopoulos. This book was released on 2018-04-11. Fake Goods, Real money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The trade in counterfeit goods is growing and is increasingly linked to transnational organised crime. But little is known about the financial mechanisms that lie behind this trade. This is the first account of the financial management of the counterfeiting business. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, it examines the financial and business structures in relation to the illicit trade in counterfeit products. Based on interviews with active criminal entrepreneurs in the UK and abroad and other data, the authors explore ‘organised crime’ and mutating criminal markets, digital technologies and their criminological and sociological implications, and cultural values and practices. This book will make a significant contribution to our understanding of these timely issues.
Fake Goods, Real Money
Fake Goods, Real Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fake Goods, Real Money write by Georgios A. Antonopoulos. This book was released on 2019. Fake Goods, Real Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the financial management of the counterfeiting business. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, it examines the financial and business structures in relation to the illicit trade in counterfeit products. It also considers how the internet and e-commerce present financial opportunities for counterfeiters and explores how these processes interact with the trade in counterfeit products.
The Art of Making Money
The Art of Making Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Making Money write by Jason Kersten. This book was released on 2009-06-11. The Art of Making Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Read Jason Kersten's posts on the Penguin Blog. The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy him: family. Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed "DaVinci" taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing. In The Art of Making Money, journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down. A compulsively readable story of how having it all is never enough, The Art of Making Money is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind. Watch a Video
