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Old January 24th, 2014 #21
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BWAHAHAHA! CHUUUUUTZ-pah, itz!

But oh - what a grand opportunity to lead the back-slidden lamb back to JEE-sus! Thank you, Lord!
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Old January 24th, 2014 #22
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Looks like Handsome Hahvey Weinstein's nut-squeezins.

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Old January 24th, 2014 #23
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Man who duped hospital into thinking he was Pink Floyd's David Gilmour convinced SAME facility he was Rush guitarist months earlier to avoid paying $72,000 in medical bills
Phillip Schaeffer, 54, from Minnesota, has been charged with fraud

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2rILeDGkm
 
Old January 24th, 2014 #24
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BWAHAHAHA! CHUUUUUTZ-pah, itz!

But oh - what a grand opportunity to lead the back-slidden lamb back to JEE-sus! Thank you, Lord!
This guy will never stop scamming as long as he draws breath. And people will keep falling for it.
 
Old January 24th, 2014 #25
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Man who duped hospital into thinking he was Pink Floyd's David Gilmour convinced SAME facility he was Rush guitarist months earlier to avoid paying $72,000 in medical bills
Phillip Schaeffer, 54, from Minnesota, has been charged with fraud

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2rILeDGkm
Based on looks, I can see him pulling off the Lifeson fraud, but Gilmour? I wonder if he affected a a Brit accent thru his Minnesota nose....
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Old January 24th, 2014 #26
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[lot of skullcap skullduggery here]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-000-debt.html

- $1.7m vanishes from murdered Brooklyn slumlord's bank account as business partner faces questions over missing funds
- Money missing from a $2m account belonging to Menachem Stark and his business partner Israel Perlmutter
- Stark's body found strangled and burned in dumpster on January 3
- Before his death Stark was desperately trying to come up with money to pay off creditors
- Bankruptcy court wants to depose Perlmutter over the missing money

By LOUISE BOYLE
23 January 2014

A murdered slumlord's bank account is missing $1.7 million after the funds were 'improperly removed', an investigation has revealed.

The money has gone missing from a $2million account belonging to Menachem Stark and his business partner Israel Perlmutter.

Stark was abducted on January 2 from outside his Brooklyn office. His charred and strangled corpse was found the next day in a dumpster behind a convenience store in Great Neck, Long Island.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2rIeJUrOs
 
Old January 24th, 2014 #27
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Yeah, they got one guy late in his seventies four or five decades after the fact...um...great job?
I understand James Burke did a pretty good job of catching most of them pretty soon after the fact.
 
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Con-artists! JOHN HUMPHRYS reveals the conspiracy that makes 'worthless' art by Damien Hirst and co sell for a fortune
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Old February 3rd, 2014 #29
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Well, this is not a scam, but it's still a heist. Not sure how much effort went into it, but if they're not caught yet then perhaps enough...

This is What it Looks Like When An Armored Truck Gets Robbed



Yesterday in Queens, three men rushed an armored truck and made off with the $300,000 it was carrying. Above is what it looks like when a robber sticks a gun directly in your face.

According to the FBI, the driver was leaving an HSBC bank with its deposits when he was met by the men. The three sprayed his face with mace before leaving on foot.

http://gawker.com/this-is-what-it-lo...s-r-1513919478

The men, who were either Asian or Hispanic, may have made their escape in a navy or black Ford Explorer that was dirty and missing a front license plate, the FBI said.
 
Old February 3rd, 2014 #30
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[2nd biggest heist in US history, in Charlotte, N.C.]

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My favorite armored car heist was the Loomis job. A couple of rednecks steal $17.3 million (The second largest heist in U.S. history). And pure red neck stupidity did them in. It's a real life Coen Brothers movie.

 
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[2nd biggest heist in US history, in Charlotte, N.C.]

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My favorite armored car heist was the Loomis job. A couple of rednecks steal $17.3 million (The second largest heist in U.S. history). And pure red neck stupidity did them in. It's a real life Coen Brothers movie.

The Largest Bank Robbery in U.S. History: An Imperfect Crime - YouTube
I love the big heist stories. Here's one of the best:

Philip Johnson was a burglar who masterminded a $18.8 million cash theft of the Loomis Fargo Depot in Jacksonville, Florida in March of 1997. At that time, it was the largest cash theft in US history. Philip Johnson was an employee at Loomis Fargo and during the time of the robbery, he and 2 other Loomis Fargo workers, Dan Smith and Terry Brown, were on shift at the depot. Philip Johnson bound both men with handcuffs and leg irons and packed the millions of dollars into one of the company's armored trucks. He then took the two bound-up men in the truck and drove off and later dropped them each of them at separate locations, tied up. Johnson then took the stolen cash and placed it in a storage facility in Mountain Home, North Carolina. He then fled to Mexico City, Mexico to live. He was later caught when he crossed the border back to America by a custom agent who was suspicous of his behavior. For his role in the crime, Philip Johnson was sentenced to 25 years in prison.



http://www.allthingsdiscussed.com/Mo...t-loomis-fargo
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Old February 3rd, 2014 #32
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For sheer go-it-alone genius, this likely faggot (hairdresser) takes the cake:


Bank robber William Smarto committed a string of bank robberies throughout his criminal career but his most famous and known bank robbery was of the First National Bank of Barrington in Barrington, Illinois in April of 1981 in which Smarto stole over $1.1 million in cash and jewelry. Smarto committed the robbery by hiding out in the room of the safety deposit boxes of the bank and waiting until the bank closed. When the bank closed for that weekend, Smarto spent the whole weekend, chiseling away at the safety deposit boxes and stealing from and emptying out 74 safety deposit boxes. When the bank opened on Monday morning, he hid back in the same blind spot. He set the bank up exactly as it was found, including sealing the safety deposit boxes back up. When the bank attendant opened the vault on this morning, she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Once the bank was fully opened to the public, Smarto leaves dressed up in a construction worker's uniform, as the bank was under construction at the time, and walked out with all his loot. For his part in the bank robbery of First National Bank of Barrington, Smarto gets a 8-year sentence in prison.



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Old February 7th, 2014 #33
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[jap composer fakes deafness, has someone else write his works, presumably gets rich/famous pretending to be a modern-day Nipthoven.]

In Japan, a Beloved Deaf Composer Appears to Be None of the Above

By MARTIN FACKLER
FEB. 6, 2014

TOKYO — He was celebrated as a prolific musical genius whose compositions appeared in popular video games and the competition routine of a top figure skater in the coming Sochi Olympics. His deafness won him praise as Japan’s modern-day Beethoven.

It turns out his magnum opus was his own masquerade.

On Thursday, Japan learned that one of its most popular musical figures, Mamoru Samuragochi, 50, had staged an elaborate hoax in which someone else had secretly written his most famous compositions, and that he had perhaps even faked his hearing disability.

Across a nation long captivated by Western classical music, people reacted with remorse, outrage and even the rare threat of a lawsuit after Mr. Samuragochi’s revelations that he had hired a ghostwriter since the 1990s to compose most of his music. The anger turned to disbelief when the ghostwriter himself came forward to accuse Mr. Samuragochi of faking his deafness, apparently to win public sympathy and shape the Beethoven persona.

The scandal began on Wednesday, when Mr. Samuragochi publicly confessed that someone else had written his most famous works. These include Symphony No. 1 “Hiroshima,” about the 1945 atomic bombing of his home city, which became a classical music hit in Japan; the theme music for the video games Resident Evil and Onimusha; and Sonatina for Violin, which the Japanese Olympic figure skater Daisuke Takahashi is scheduled to use in his performance in Sochi.


Samuragochi’s Work, Now in Question Mamoru Samuragochi, who won fame for overcoming deafness to write music, confessed many of his best-known works were ghostwritten. Then his ghostwriter said he was not actually deaf, either.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/ar...raud.html?_r=0
 
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"Nipthoven".

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Old April 26th, 2014 #35
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10 Con Men And Their Masterful Forgeries

By Marc V.
April 26, 2014

History has always been full of con men and scam artists ready to rip off the most gullible among us. While we may be more familiar with impersonators like Frank Abagnale and financial swindlers like Bernie Madoff, a number of people out there deserve to be in the spotlight as well, mainly because they managed to pull off an amazing selection of forgeries during their career.

10 The Uighur Swindler

Although Islam Akhun lacked an education, that didn’t stop him from successfully passing off forged Silk Road papers as genuine.

Prior to his scam, several European governments were in an archaeological race in Central Asia following the discovery of an authentic document known as the Bower Manuscript in 1889. After learning from Afghan traders how the Europeans paid for every document found, Akhun decided to cash in on the craze without ever having to dig in the desert. Together with his associates, Akhun began forging phony documents in 1894 and sold them to the unsuspecting Europeans. Akhun’s scam went unnoticed for three years due to the Europeans’ inability to read the characters on the documents.

Unfortunately for Akhun, his scheme began to unravel in 1898 when a Swedish missionary named Magnus Backlund shared his doubts. A British linguistics scholar named Rudolf Hoernle soon advised archaeologists to stop buying any more manuscripts from Akhun. His swindling days officially came to an end in 1901, when British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein successfully extracted a confession from him.

9 The Anesthesiologist Who Dreamed Up His Data

A few years before Yoshitaka Fujii stunned the world with news of his record-breaking scientific fraud, fellow anesthesiologist Scott Reuben was already in the limelight. Although the doctor from Massachusetts only fabricated 21 research papers against Fujii’s 179, Reuben’s fraud made a bigger impact, especially on patient safety. Since 1996, Reuben concocted fictitious data supporting the use of specific pain drugs after orthopedic surgery. In reality, these drugs may have actually slowed the recovery process.

Reuben’s plot to push these drugs came to an end in 2009 after a surgeon discovered that Reuben forged his signature in one of his papers. Following a string of investigations, Reuben was found guilty of healthcare fraud and was sentenced in 2010 to six months plus three years of supervised release. In addition to having his license revoked by the Medical Board, Reuben also had his name blacklisted by the FDA.

8 The Monk’s Fictitious Biography Of A Saint

If there’s anything that the 11th-century French monk Ademar de Chabannes can teach us, it’s that persistence can pay off—especially when it comes to lying. As a young man, Ademar was educated in the famous St. Martial’s Abbey in Limoges, France. Like the rest of the monks there, he came to venerate St. Martial—so much so that he wrote a fake backdated biography naming the third-century figure as St. Peter’s cousin and one of Jesus’s apostles. After Christ’s death, Peter supposedly commissioned Martial to go and preach in Gaul.

To back up their claim, Ademar and the monks also created a new liturgy dedicated to Martial. On the day of its celebration, a visiting monk named Benedict of Chiusa exposed the fraud, shaming the perpetrators. But far from feeling beaten, Ademar instead continued to heap forgeries upon forgeries for the rest of his life to uphold Martial’s apostolicity. His efforts met with some success; after his death, locals continued to venerate Martial as an apostle for centuries.

7 Father Philanthropy

Unlike the vast majority of forgers out there, Mark Landis isn’t in it for the money. Not once during his career of almost 30 years has the man taken a cent from giving his artworks to museums in almost two dozen states. Instead, the Virginia native would usually visit museums dressed either as a businessman or a Jesuit priest and offer his forgeries to the officials for free. More often than not, the museums accepted his offer.Landis explained that his motivation stemmed from his desire to honor his deceased parents’ memory. Health workers, however, have ruled that Landis—a diagnosed schizophrenic who suffered two nervous breakdowns—mainly just loved the attention his works gave him. Although a museum registrar finally exposed his activities in 2008, no efforts have been made by authorities to investigate or arrest Landis because he didn’t profit from his activities. As an alternative, an exhibit displaying his selected works was launched in 2012 as a way of recognizing Landis’s artistic skills.

6 The Criminal Barrister

Meet James Townsend Saward, one of the real-life inspirations for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s villainous Professor Moriarty. Even before he became a barrister in Victorian London in 1840, Saward—also known to the criminal underbelly as “Jim the Penman“—had already been leading a gang of thieves whose activities included cashing forged checks, fencing stolen goods, and outright robbery. A master forger who could create perfect copies of signatures, Saward took great care to avoid detection, thereby allowing him and his gang to operate for more than three decades. Saward’s criminal operations ultimately came to an end when an accomplice mistakenly used his real name in a letter asking for instructions after a botched bank swindle. Subsequently, police intercepted the letter and arrested Saward along with his gang. In 1857, a court sentenced Saward and another of his co-conspirators, James Anderson, to serve their jail terms in Australia.

5 The Man Who Created Fake Art From His Garden Shed

For almost two decades, British conman Shaun Greenhalgh—along with his senior citizen parents George Sr. and Olive—successfully fooled museums and experts with his fake sculptures, accumulating as much as $3 million in the process. A frustrated artist, Shaun began his scam in 1989, working from a shed in the family’s backyard. His parents would sell the finished products to various museums, claiming they were authentic pieces handed to them by their ancestors. The ruse worked; during their career, the family sold several fake works without fail, with some fetching more than $100,000. The art community gradually became suspicious of the family after experts detected a series of flaws with three “Assyrian sculptures” George Sr. brought to a museum in 2005. Subsequently, a search by Scotland Yard into the family’s home revealed all the incriminating evidence they needed. In the aftermath, Shaun received four years and eight months in prison while his parents got suspended sentences.

4 The Anti-Mormon Who Plunged His Church Into A Crisis

Although he forged and sold hundreds of phony documents, antiquities dealer Mark Hofmann would be best known for embroiling the Mormon Church in a stupendous scandal in the 1980s. A Mormon who later lost his faith, Hofmann wrote several forgeries that clashed with the church’s official history and its major tenets. He wanted to embarrass the church so much that they’d buy the documents to cover them up. One of his most famous works was the Salamander Letter, a document that depicted church founder Joseph Smith talking with a white salamander instead of an angel. Hofmann’s career ended when he killed two people in a bizarre bomb plot to silence those who threatened to expose him. Police apprehended Hofmann after he injured himself with a third bomb. During his trial, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

This guy blew up the mother of one of my highschool classmates on a street a couple away from where I lived in SLC.

3 The Brothers’ Shop Of Forgeries

Based in Odessa, Ukraine, the Gokhman Brothers became one of the most extensive sellers of fake artifacts across Europe in the 1890s up to the early 1900s. Their methodology was as simple as it was brilliant: from their shop, the brothers would make a sketch of the intended forgery and then hire skilled artisans to craft it. Their work succeeded in fooling many major museums, including the Louvre. In the mid-1890s, the museum bought from the brothers a purported ancient Scythian tiara worth 200,000 francs. The museum would have continued exhibiting it, were it not for the timely visit of its real creator, the skilled goldsmith Israel Rouchomovsky. The goldsmith managed to prove to the museum that the tiara was his creation, forcing officials to remove it in 1903. This deception however, would not be the Gokhman Brothers’ last. In 1939, they fooled the museum yet again into buying another of their fakes: a Scythian drinking horn.

2 The Counterfeiter Of Polynesian And Maori Curios

The handicap of having never set foot in the South Pacific certainly did not stop James Edward Little from making fake Polynesian and Maori knick-knacks—and fooling experts with them for a good 15 years. A legitimate dealer of antiques and a noted restorer, Little’s forging career began by pure chance in 1900 when an art dealer staying in his home wanted to buy his collection of authentic native trinkets. Little promised to find more and sell them to him—and began a life of crime. As the decade rolled on, Little acquired a long list of clients—some as far away as New Zealand—who regularly ordered and paid for his work via mail. To make the fakes, Little either copied them from real pieces or just used his imagination. Concurrently, Little also stole originals from museums and replaced them with his fakes. One 1915 operation proved to be his downfall. The curator managed to identify Little as the culprit as he had been the museum’s only visitor in three days. Little spent six months in prison before joining the war. Although he would later be imprisoned again for robbery in 1939, Little was never charged for the crime of forgery.

1The Humanitarian Forger

As we’ve seen before, forgery can be used for good. Take Adolfo Kaminsky, for instance. As an Argentinian Jew living in Nazi-occupied Paris, Kaminsky narrowly escaped a trip to Auschwitz when the local Jewish French Resistance provided him with false documents. Kaminsky joined the group and began manufacturing fake documents of his own, designing passports in his personal studio. Kaminsky’s studio could churn out as many as 500 false documents every week. To keep the frenetic pace and fight off exhaustion, Kaminsky constantly reminded himself that he if he “worked for an hour, 30 people would live; if he slept, then they all died.” After the war, Kaminsky went on to become a forger for several freedom movements across the world, from South America to Africa. He finally retired in the 1970s, having been paid just once during his 30-year career.Marc V. is always open for a conversation, so do drop him a line sometime.

http://listverse.com/2014/04/24/10-c...ful-forgeries/

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