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‘fantasy world’: Adam Cooper, ‘Slippery con man Rocco Calabrese jailed for seafood fraud’, The Age, 5 May 2015
‘Your method of operating has not changed …’: Mark Chipperfield, ‘Catch me if you can con man jailed after 40 years’, The Telegraph, 20 March 2009
‘It is not just an unwillingness to do so …’: Malcolm Brown, ‘A few inconvenient truths’, The Age, 6 January 2007
‘Sooner or later they are revived …’: David W. Maurer, The Big Con, Anchor Books, 1940, page 313
‘Confidence men will continue …’: ibid.
Love is Blind: The Tichborne Claimant
Advertisement appealing for information about Roger Tichborne: Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 1865
‘My dear mother …’: ‘The Tichborne Claimant’, Wagga Wagga Local History web page, compiled by the staff of Wagga Wagga City Library and the Charles Sturt University Regional Archives, http://waggalocalhistory.wikifoundry.com/page/The+Tichborne+Claimant.
‘My dear and beloved Roger …’: Robyn Annear, The Man Who Lost Himself: the Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant, Text Publishing, 2011
‘I appeal to the very British soul …’: David Wayne Thomas, Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, page 106
George Bernard Shaw’s observations: George Bernard Shaw, George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated), e-artnow, 2015
The Art of the Con: Ethel Livesey
‘had tendered Mr Beech certain advice’: ‘Missing Bride Arrested’, The Mail (Adelaide), 22 December 1945
British Pathé newsreel: Mrs Livesey Speaks. The story that has not been told, 1946
Mrs Florence Ethel Livesey’s death notice appeared in the South Australian Advertiser, reported in Freda Marnie Nicholls, The Amazing Mrs Livesey, Allen and Unwin, 2017, page 293.
All That Glitters: Boiler rooms
Ten steps for ensnaring a victim: David W. Maurer, The Big Con, Anchor Books, 1940, page 4
Brokers’ pitches: Ben Younger, Boiler Room, 2000
‘The southeast corner of Queensland seems …’: Queensland Organised Crime Commission of Inquiry, 2015, page 378
‘It’s easier to … become a director …’: ibid., page 381
‘Customers observed irregularities with the balances …’: Mark Morri and Janet Fife-Yeomans, ‘Larry Pickering accused of being involved in a sports betting operation, millions allegedly lost’, Daily Telegraph, 17 October 2011
Quotes from Crouch and Carlisle’s victims: Joshua Robertson, ‘The biggest mistake in my life: how Gold Coast boiler room scams duped investors’, The Guardian, 17 August 2015
‘It is increasingly concerning that organised …’: Queensland Organised Crime Commission of Inquiry, 2015, page 384
‘It is estimated that the potential …’: ibid., page 385
Belfort living off royalties outside US jurisdiction: Charles Levinson, ‘Prosecutors Give Poor Reviews to Restitution from “Wolf of Wall Street”’, Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2014
‘You’ve got a lot of nerve …’: Sarah Thomas, ‘Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort storms out of 60 Minutes interview’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 May 2014
‘Can you imagine going through every …’: Lucy Thackray and Jenny Awford, ‘Your stupidity is breathtaking: Girlfriend of the real Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort pens blistering rant against critics who say he shouldn’t profit from his story … as the couple set up home in Brisbane’, Daily Mail, 19 October 2015
‘I once asked Jordan if it …’: Ronald L. Rubin, ‘How the “Wolf of Wall Street” Really Did It’, Wall Street Journal, 3 January 2014
His Wicked, Wicked Ways: Errol Flynn
‘I’m here to celebrate the birthplace …’: Martin Cuddihy, ‘Bad boy Flynn honoured in Hobart’, ABC News, 22 Jun 2009
‘Till then I never knew …’: Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Pan Books, 1961, page 42
‘Australians fight for keeps’: ibid., page 47
‘You could sell a few …’: ibid., page 73
‘it was the most dastardly thing’: ibid., page 103
‘You can count on Errol Flynn …’: David Niven as quoted by Philip French, ‘Philip French’s Screen Legends’, The Guardian, 7 December 2009
‘Flynn was a magnificent specimen …’: David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon, Coronet Books, 1972, page 180
‘Look, you chaps only have …’: David Niven as quoted in ‘Uniform role was no act for Niven’, Evening Times, 1 November 2013
‘There is no way Errol …’: m.imdb.com/name/nm0000057/quotes
‘who the hell asks …’: Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, page 270
‘Just tell him Joe called …’: ibid., page 273
‘Oh, darling, that gentleman stuff …’: Gentleman Jim, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942
‘You say that Flynn removed …’: Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, page 331
I Have Seen the Light: Religious double-crossers
‘I just went home. I knew …’: Michael Guglielmucci, michaelguglielmucci. blogspot.com.au
‘The pain was obviously becoming more …’ Brian Houston, michaelguglielmucci.blogspot.com.au
‘So now we all know that …’: ibid.
Danny Guglielmucci on Michael’s revelation: Elissa Lawrence, ‘Disgraced pastor Michael Guglielmucci a porn addict’, Sunday Mail (SA), 18 March 2009
‘I’ve been living a lie for a long …’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcswYwQczPc
‘He just went through it — where it …’: Rebekah Devlin, ‘Wife Says She’ll Stand by Fraud Pastor Michael Guglielmucci’, Adelaide Now, 26 August 2008
‘Seeing your husband of seven years …’: ibid.
‘the one and only Fr Rich …’: Matthew Benns, ‘The priest, his fake cancer and an almighty apology’, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2008
Quotes from Abourjaily in the Catholic Weekly: ibid.
‘Last year became an eventful year …’: ibid.
‘We all believed he had prostate cancer …’: ibid.
‘Father Abourjaily is not functioning …’: statement by Cardinel Pell emailed to the author, 9 March 2008
‘All he did was to lie and that’s …’: Matthew Benns, ‘Priest who faked cancer resurfaces’, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 2010
Quotes from Abourjaily’s hearing at Bankstown Local Court: Sarah Crawford, ‘Disgraced former Catholic priest who faked cancer banned from driving for a year for speeding’, Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2015
Hoodwinked: Carl Synnerdahl
‘Once I got away from the bank …’: Phillip Koch, ‘Prison doors revolve once more for serial crook: Newly-wed’s honeymoon behind bars’, Sunday Telegraph, 3 December 1995
‘I found out the only way …’: ibid.
‘I came out of jail in those days …’: ibid.
‘From that day on …’: Nathan Davies, ‘From Ginger Meggs to career criminal: The remarkable life of Carl Synnerdahl’, The Advertiser, 10 April 2016
‘He’s no common trickster …’: Australian Women’s Weekly, 18 March 1981
‘I’ve always wondered what sort …’: Phillip Koch, ‘Prison doors revolve once more for serial crook: Newly-wed’s honeymoon behind bars’
‘I would step outside the prison …’: ibid.
‘This is the true story …’: Carl Synnerdahl, Hoodwink, MacDonald Futura, 1981
‘I was a really evil bastard …’ Renato Castello, ‘Carl’s poetry tapped out on wall’, Messenger Community Newspapers, 24 January 2001
‘This is where I want to die in peace …’: Interview with the author, 14 March 2016
Keep Your Friends Close …: Community swindlers
‘I want to know where he is too …’: Matthew Benns and Jim O’Rourke, ‘Aussie conman flees overseas with $40 million of investors’ money’, Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2014
‘Think of my boys. They have friends …’: Interview with the author, January
2014
‘The investors have contacted me, but …’: ibid.
‘It was all just a big con, none …’: Matthew Benns and Jim O’Rourke, ‘Aussie conman flees overseas with $40 million of investors’ money’
‘I met him when he was an investment …’: ibid.
‘included an array of false claims including …’: ibid.
‘Once, I got to see him in the South of France …’: Interview with the author, February 2014
‘We met in a very expensive hotel and …’: Matthew Benns and Jim O’Rourke, ‘Aussie conman flees overseas with $40 million of investors’ money’
‘He registered Gold Hedge Royalty in the …’: ibid.
‘I am keen to support any efforts to bring …’: ibid.
‘This man presented a very convincing prospectus …’: Email to the author, February 2016
‘provided consular assistance to an Australian …’: Email to the author, February 2016
‘We understand through sources here that some …:’ Email to the author, February 2016
‘I actually worked with John at a …’: Matthew Benns and Jim O’Rourke, ‘Aussie conman flees overseas with $40 million of investors’ money’
‘We are divorced. We detest everything …’: Interview with the author, 15 February 2014
‘It is often very hard to distinguish …’: Queensland Organised Crime Commission of Inquiry, page 377
Adriana Xenides on Karl Suleman: Nikki Barrowclough, ‘Froggy went a-courting’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 June 2002
‘For six months I lost loads of money …’: Matthew Benns, ‘“Froggy boss Suleman killed my career” pop star claims’, Sun Herald, 27 January 2002
‘I know I was a fool. But let’s wait …’: Nikki Barrowclough, ‘Froggy went a-courting’
‘an entrepreneur whose light burnt magnesium …’: Anne Lampe, ‘Jail for conman with a taste for flash’, The Age, 16 April 2004
‘How could anyone believe in Karl? …’: Nikki Barrowclough, ‘Froggy went a-courting’
Doomsday Flight: Peter Macari
‘It’s an aneroid bomb …’: Doomsday Flight, 1066
‘That would be a good way to make money’: Basil Sweeney and Gavin Souter, ‘Mr. Brown and the Qantas extortion’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 1972
Description of ‘Peter King’: ibid.
‘It was the most frightening thing …’: William Selwyn, ‘Nerves of steel under the gravest threat’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 2010
‘It was what we call a pose car …’: Basil Sweeney and Gavin Souter, ‘Mr. Brown and the Qantas extortion’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 1972
‘He’s English, hasn’t worked …’: ibid.
‘He threatened me personally …’: Basil Sweeney and Gavin Souter, ‘Mr. Brown and the Qantas extortion’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 January 1972
‘The agreement was $125,000 …’: ibid.
‘I don’t know. I’ve told …’: ibid.
Copycat crime: Herald Sun, 7 July 1997
‘When I suggested he knew …’: ‘Mr Brown Link to murder mystery’, Sun Herald, 18 September 1994
How to Fake Your Death: Harry Gordon
Quotes from The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin: Cited by David Quantick in ‘David Nobb’s Reginald Perrin: “a stealth drama riding on the wheels of a sitcom”’, The Guardian, 11 August 2015
‘It was pure vanity …’: Carol Duncan and Jeannette McMahon, ‘Fake death linked to Russian mafia’, ABC Radio Newcastle, 2 August 2007
‘What I should have done was …’: ibid.
‘balding, boring, middle-aged businessman’: Luke Leitch, ‘How I faked my own death and vanished for five years’, The Independent, 8 December 2007
‘Who’s interested in a middle-aged man …’: ibid.
‘Harry. It’s over! …’: Shelley Gare, ‘The man who faked his own death’, Sunday Star Times, 29 July 2007 ‘pixie dust’: ibid.
Conversation between Michael and Harry Gordon on Mount Maunganui: ibid.
‘She was cross’: ibid.
Gordon’s advice: Luke Leitch, ‘How I faked my own death and vanished for five years’
Nobody’s Fuel: Fuel-saving scams
‘I will do everything I possibly can …’: ‘Save the World Air Inc welcomes the endorsement of world renowned actor and environmentalist Steven Seagal’, PRNewswire, 24 April 2000
‘I have never been more impressed over …’: Ben Hills, ‘A fuel and his money’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2001
‘Once somebody sees one and holds …’: ibid.
‘‘I was a frightful goose. I’d like …’: ibid.
‘I answered the phone and I tried …’: ibid.
‘Stoliar and his co-conspirator [James Jariv] perpetrated …’: Kate McClymont, ‘Eddie Obeid associate Nati Stoliar pleads guilty to money laundering’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 July 2014
‘Like many other Australians I have …’: Gerard Ryle, ‘Navy chiefs caught in Firepower fiasco’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 September 2008
‘I had my suspicions about the company …’: Nick Taylor, ‘How lies made Tim a rich man’, Sunday Times, 3 May 2009
‘I was there for three years wondering …’: Jamie Pandaram, ‘Burnt by Firepower, Mitchell flowers at Tahs’, 3 June 2013
‘You will see, we will eventually be vindicated …’: Peter Wilson, ‘I haven’t been hiding: Firepower boss Tim Johnston’, The Australian, 28 September 2008
‘If that is true, then why has Johnston …’: ibid.
‘We have plenty of tests to prove …’: ibid.
‘It’s on the car to stay true …’: Joshua Dowling, ‘Peter Brock’s HDT Polariser returns’, Motoring, 13 October 2011
The Silver Fox: Christopher Skase
‘He chased big, but he chased …’: ‘The life of Skase’, The World Today, ABC Local Radio, 6 August 2001
‘I wanted nothing in the world …’: George Frew, Some Day I’ll Have Money, cited by Jane Cadzow in ‘The widow Skase’, Good Weekend magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 2005
‘She had fallen in with …’: ibid.
Cadzow’s exhaustive feature on Pixie: ibid.
‘an elegant, impeccably dressed man, brimming …’: Errol Simper, ‘Past master of sharp practice’, The Australian, 16 August 2001
‘They do not readily warm to …’: Jane Cadzow, ‘The widow Skase’
Comments on young Australians: ‘The life of Skase’, The World Today
Praise for Joh Bjelke-Peterson: ibid.
‘was an eye opener and it cost a lot of money …’: ‘Many Happy Returns’, Four Corners, ABC TV, 7 September 1998
‘Oh, things are gonna get worse …’: ibid.
‘While a liveried barman served …’: Lawrence van der Plaat, Too Good to be True: Inside the Corrupt World of Christopher Skase, Macmillan, 1996
‘adequate time to get the vehicle …’: ‘Many Happy Returns’, Four Corners
‘I’ve got to admit …’: ‘How Christopher Skase took us for a ride — part one’, Good Weekend magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 1996
‘I have attended …’: Ian Verrender, ‘The man who cried wolf’, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 2001
‘Just get me out …’: Andrew Murray, ‘How Christopher Skase took us for a ride’, The Age, 9 November 1996
‘As I’ve found out, the Austrian …’: ‘Many Happy Returns’, Four Corners
‘remorseless use’: Lawrence van der Plaat, Too Good to be True: Inside the Corrupt World of Christopher Skase
‘You know who sent us …’: ibid.
‘During the scuffle — and it’s not a fight …’: ‘Many Happy Returns’, Four Corners
‘I have no desire to return …’: ‘The life of Skase’, The World Today
‘Skase hasn’t even had the decency …’: ‘Many Happy Returns’, Four Corners
‘smelly socks’: ‘Pixie Skase to renew Australian citizenship’, Sydney Morning He
rald, 25 April 2005
Hinch’s thoughts on Skase’s death: ‘The life of Skase’, The World Today
‘We had a wonderful, passionate relationship …’: Sue Smethurst, ‘Pixie Skase: “I feel desperately sorry”’, Australian Women’s Weekly, 30 June 2010
‘I feel desperately sorry …’: ibid.
‘I’d like to see what sort …’: Grant McArthur and Ruth Lamperd, ‘Finally, Pixie Skase says she’s sorry’, Herald Sun, 30 June 2010
City Slickers: Insider traders
‘I vividly remember that day …’: Martin McKenzie-Murray, ‘Exposing privileged trading’, Saturday Paper, 17–23 May 2014
‘That was when it suddenly clicked …’: Patrick Durkin, ‘How I used LinkedIn to bust the alleged NAB, ABS inside traders’, Australian Financial Review, 12 May 2014
‘I’ve let down my family …’: Patrick Durkin and Georgia Wilkins, ‘NAB inside trader blames Wolf of Wall Street culture’, Australian Financial Review, 10 December 2014
‘That was not a dazzling display’: Patrick Durkin, ‘NAB inside trader Lukas Kamay sentenced to seven years’, Australian Financial Review, 17 May 2015
‘Although the corporate culture that existed …’: ibid.
‘[Kamay] was reluctant to concede …’: ibid.
‘displaying some symptoms of inflated …’: Sarah Danckert, ‘“Narcissistic” trader Lukas Kamay handed historic sentence’, The Australian, 18 March 2015
‘Insider trading is a serious criminal …’: Mark Russell, ‘Insider trading masterminds Lukas Kamay, Christopher Hill jailed after Block bid’, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 2015
Professor Ian Ramsay on insider trading: Interview with the author, 24 March 2015
‘the Tyrant’ and other nicknames: Marc Moncrief and Daniella Miletic, ‘Rogue NAB traders face their judgement day’, The Age, 1 July 2006
Former colleague on Luke Duffy: ‘All the NAB forex angles,’ Crikey, 15 January 2004
‘financial weapons of mass destruction’: Tony Boyd, ‘Warren Buffett still says derivatives are “weapons of mass destruction”’, Australian Financial Review, 17 June 2015