Nonfiction books about frauds, hoaxes, scams and con games
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Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following 3.33 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Don't Be a Victim!: How to Protect Yourself from Hoaxes, Scams, and Frauds
by:
Michael Chesbro
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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The Con Artist Handbook: The Secrets of Hustles and Scams
by:
Joel Levy
3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Economic Sodomy: How Modern Frauds Work and How to Protect Yourself
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Victor Santoro
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Biz-Op: How to Get Rich With "Business Opportunity" Frauds and Scams
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Bruce Easley
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 11. 
License to Steal: Traveling Con Artists: Their games, their rules, your money 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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100 Ways to Win a Ten-Spot: Scams, Cons, Games You Can't Lose
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Paul Zenon
3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings 14. 
Scam Detection Kit: Scientific Tools to Demolish Hoaxes, Scams, Frauds and Everything In-Between it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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How to Legally Steal With Lawsuits!: Or the ABCs of Suitability liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by:
Kevin Young
3.17 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,717 ratings 20. 
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
by:
Tori Telfer
3.71 avg rating — 4,068 ratings 21. 
Protect Yourself Online Fake Emails Websites Fraud Hoaxes Scams: Safety On-Line (On-Line Internet How To Book 1)
by:
Baslee Troutman
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 22. 
The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime 3.77 avg rating — 853 ratings
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
by:
Kevin D. Mitnick
3.77 avg rating — 7,162 ratings 
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
by:
Mitchell Zuckoff
3.93 avg rating — 1,196 ratings 
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Scams, Scandals, and Skulduggery: A Selection of the World's Most Outrageous Frauds 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Preventing Credit Card Fraud: A Complete Guide for Everyone from Merchants to Consumers
by:
Jen Grondahl Lee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 31. 
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
by:
Eliot Brown
4.27 avg rating — 6,960 ratings 32. 
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial 3.50 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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The Fateful Hoaxing Of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research
by:
Derek Freeman
3.09 avg rating — 43 ratings 36. 
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies
by:
Ian Tattersall
3.33 avg rating — 173 ratings 37. 
Travesty in Haiti: A True Account of Christian Missions, Orphanages, Fraud, Food Aid and Drug Trafficking 4.01 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
by:
Kenneth L. Feder
4.04 avg rating — 728 ratings 39. 
Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
by:
Brian P Luskey
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 40. 
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
by:
Adam H. Domby
4.25 avg rating — 216 ratings 41. 
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by:
Anthony M. Amore
3.54 avg rating — 1,174 ratings 43. 
Fraud On The Internet: Hoax And Scams To Watch Out For!
by:
Martin W. Gates
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports
by:
Howard Schilit
4.24 avg rating — 2,713 ratings 45. 
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
by:
Richard Evershed
3.89 avg rating — 157 ratings 47. 
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Scams from the Great Beyond: How to Make Easy Money Off of ESP . . .
by:
Peter Huston
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings 50. 
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Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers, and Scam Artists
by:
Stephen Hyde
3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings 52. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,063 ratings 54. 
Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses
by:
Edward Skoudis
4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings 54. 
My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist
by:
T.D. Thornton
3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings 56. 
No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing
by:
Johnny Long
3.94 avg rating — 218 ratings 56. 
The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
by:
Alex Palmer
3.78 avg rating — 567 ratings 
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The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
by:
Beau Donelly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,319 ratings 61. 
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A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
by:
Blake Ellis
3.31 avg rating — 378 ratings 63. 
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
by:
Dean Jobb
3.87 avg rating — 2,201 ratings 64. 
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
by:
Geoffrey C. Ward
3.73 avg rating — 291 ratings 
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue 3.31 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
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Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster
by:
John Barr
4.35 avg rating — 831 ratings 68. 
How to Spot a Liar, Revised Edition: Why People Don't Tell the Truth...and How You Can Catch Them
by:
Gregory Hartley
3.57 avg rating — 361 ratings 68. 
Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
by:
Kate Fazzini
3.18 avg rating — 426 ratings 70. 
Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious B.I.G. Murder Investigation
by:
Randall Sullivan
4.13 avg rating — 122 ratings 71. 
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
by:
Fred Pearce
4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings 72. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings 
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Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars--A Southern Tragedy of Money, Murder, and Innocence Betrayed
by:
R.R. McDonald
3.20 avg rating — 44 ratings 75. 
A Life of Lies and Spies: Tales of a CIA Covert Ops Polygraph Interrogator
by:
Alan B. Trabue
3.47 avg rating — 77 ratings 
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21st Century Fraud: How to Protect Yourself in the New Millennium
by:
Tony Lesce
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 81. 
The Real Work: Essential Sleight of Hand for Street Operators
by:
Paul Price
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 82. 
Identity Theft Protection: How to Prevent Identity Theft and Credit Card Fraud
by:
J.P. Cross
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings