A friend of a friend - lets call him 'Guy' - is a sommelier in a very expensive restaurant in the West End of London. He attended a...

I was cajoled into going shopping the other day with Lucy, a female friend; she wanted to buy something expensive for her husband James...

I've always been open to new ideas; if someone approached me with a new scam or a variation on an old one, as long as I could understand...

I met Richard, an ex-colleague for a chat the other day; he had heard that I had hung up my boots and wanted to hear it from the horse's...

Having given up my previous 'career' as a fraudster I've resigned myself to working for not very much money doing a job that I find...

My nightmare scenario involves me being woken at a respectable hour by a detective who is smartly dressed, courteous and professional. He...

I sometimes sit back and reflect on the fact that I was comparatively lucky in my ‘career’, inasmuch I was never convicted; however, if...

Since I began publishing this blog I've had a great deal of very positive feedback along the lines of 'why didn't anyone tell me about...

We are all creatures of habit and routine and normally that is a good thing. As a child I recall the sound of leather on Brian Close...

I’ve mentioned briefly that, my parents had been scammed, and as a result, I had been forced to admit to myself the degree of misery I...

This has never been my ‘thing,’ though I know a few guys who make an absolute fortune from this. While all types of fraud bear the risk...

Someone I met asked me to give him some insight into ‘the world of the fraudster. We ‘met’ across an interview table in a police station.